Bosnia

[ US /ˈbɑzniə/ ]
NOUN
  1. the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina
  2. a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims
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How To Use Bosnia In A Sentence

  • Bosnia are not simply in Brazil to elicit sympathy or provide romance, and they score an awful lot of goals. Times, Sunday Times
  • Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo.
  • If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
  • Legend Potential areas of conflict Roads Railroads Threats to the troopsIn planning the peacekeeping operation, army officials are preparing U.S. troops for Bosnia's many dangers: 1 As many as 1,000 Islamic fundamentalists, called mujahedin, are operating independently in Bosnia and could harm U.S. troops. Gearing Up For Peace
  • Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans. The Great Experiment
  • Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
  • Karadzic rarely referred to specific allegations in the indictment, concentrating instead on what he described as the victimization of the Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia, which prompted them to take up arms. Fore, right!
  • Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail. Not So Fast, Says Sinbad - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
  • All keen chaps, veterans of the Iraq or Bosnian thing, hot-blooded the lot of them. CORMORANT
  • But prosecutors have had to rely on the Bosnian government military for crucial radio intercepts.
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