If only we could translate these instincts into avoiding senseless conflicts like the war in Iraq, where no one wins and the stakes are so high.

As a prisoner of war in a senseless, bloody conflict between two dying empires, Marton must have felt himself to be a victim.

Halley "went beyond the ordinary call of a missionary as he exhibited unfailingly the zeal of senseless armed conflict".

We Americans are also concerned, as I know you are, about senseless conflicts in a number of regions.

In 2003 he called suicide bombers "enemies of Islam", adding "people of different beliefs should co-operate and not get into senseless conflicts and animosity.

But with the Administration threatening to enter a military conflict both senseless and unpopular, there is nowhere to look for possible explanations but inside Bill Clinton's head.

For I will hammer out an end to this senseless, centuries-old conflict with the Roidhunate.

Prince Serak at the moment leading his people against the Wyo- mings in one of their senseless conflicts the two "nations" had.

"Right now he's forcing your sons to keep fighting a senseless conflict that you did not ask for and that he could have prevented."

Thought of the waste of these young lives on a senseless, futile and winless conflict.