Well, small-scale wars, perhaps they can still do it.

But the emphasis is on a dozen or so prisoners, whose overlapping stories depict a small-scale civil war and many agonizing nights of the soul.

Lioren spotted the small-scale war being waged by six of them in a grassy clearing between two buildings.

The Secretary General also believes that unless these social problems are dealt with, there will be more and more small-scale civil wars.

But this one was turning into a small-scale war.

His experience as a commander had largely been in small-scale "colonial wars", and as such he was a contentious choice for the position.

Ms. Takaezu is also engaged in fighting a small-scale ecological war against what she regards as a wasteful society with little concern for nature.

These early city-states fought various small-scale wars with each other, but due to the shifting nature of alliances no individual city gained dominance.

Although he prepared for a small-scale civil war, violence was limited.

The military also paid increasing attention to sporadic small-scale wars.