This had the effect of creating the preconditions for a series of destructive and intermittent conflicts, known as the Wars of Religion.

For the next 200 years intermittent armed conflict raged between the empire and the Oromos.

Following more than 20 years of intermittent conflict, from 1811 to 1812 the Xhosas were forced east by British colonial forces in the Third Frontier War.

In September 1328 Cangrande at last took possession of Padua after 16 years of intermittent yet brutal conflict.

The struggle to claim Ingeborg's inheritance from her murdered father later involved Norway in intermittent conflicts with Denmark for decades to come.

In 1994 Yeltsin declared a state of emergency in Ingushetia and North Ossetia, two republics beset by intermittent ethnic conflict.

After intermittent conflict throughout the 1980s, peace talks began in 1989 to bring about a negotiated settlement to the conflict.

Ken isn't the father of the older boys, which is a source of intermittent conflict.

At the time, the settlers in New Amsterdam were in intermittent conflict with their Raritan and Wappinger neighbors.

In the years preceding the pact, the Quraysh were involved in intermittent conflict.