war; fighting; fierce competition
competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)
fight; battle; combat; struggle (for rights, higher wages, etc.); strife; (labor) dispute
dispute; conflict; trouble; strife
contest; competition; struggle; scramble
dispute; controversy; debate; argument; taking issue
belligerence; fighting spirit
major war; great war; world war
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
competition rate; success rate; ratio of successful (applicants) to total applicants
(enter into, be in) a state of war
struggle (for); scramble; contest
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
internal strife; infighting; internal conflict
disputed territory; conflict area
dispute; contention; conflict; controversy
class struggle; class warfare; class conflict
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
argument; dispute; controversy
competitiveness; competitive edge; competitive power
factional infighting (conflict); antagonism between factions
Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)
examination war; fiercely competitive university entrance examinations
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
war responsibility (esp. in relation to Japan's role in WWII)
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
economic warfare; economic war
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
international border dispute
labor dispute; labour dispute; industrial dispute; strike
war experience; experience of war; memories of war
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
(making something a) political issue
contending for victory; struggling for supremacy
American War of Independence (1775-1783); American Revolution
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
competitive bidding (esp. for government contracts)
international competitiveness; global competitiveness
negotiation of conditions
arms race; armaments race
Punic Wars (between Rome and Carthage)
Anglo-Satsuma War (1863); Bombardment of Kagoshima
Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Spanish-American War (1898)
all-out war; full-scale war
campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970)
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
Austro-Prussian War (1866)
Third Arab-Israeli War (June 5-10, 1967); Six-Day War
War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
conflict between a bride and her mother-in-law; (lit.) bride and mother-in-law war
Battle of Ueno (battle of the Boshin war; 1868)
conflict resolution; dispute resolution
political strife (antagonism, conflict)
campus dispute; campus strife
Yom Kippur War; fourth Arab-Israeli war (October 6-25, 1973)
let a hundred schools of thought contend
Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1939-1940)
Kulturkampf (church-state conflict in Prussia; 1872-1887)
megacompetition; mega-competition
domestic dispute; family trouble
home run hitting competition
procedures to determine the points at issue; pre-trial mutual disclosure and discussion of the points of contention
struggle for supremacy; championship game
strikers; workers on strike
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
Unfair Competition Prevention Act
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
Donghak Peasant Revolution (Korea; 1894-1895)
dispute by legal action; contentious
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
lacking opposition or competition
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
(debate over) the problem of universals
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War
open tendering; open competitive bidding
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
chaos on the roads; (lit.) traffic war
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; (lit.) fifteen years' war
(first) Indochina War (1946-1954)
push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
Russo-German War (1941-1945)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
industrial (labor-management) dispute (labour); industrial strife
argument as to (about) the authenticity (of...)
business competition; corporate competition
whirlpool of political strife
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
legal point of contention; matter in dispute; subject of debate; issue in contention
Sacred Wars (of Ancient Greece)
Sino-French War (1884-1885)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
Sanrizuka Struggle; campaign against the construction of Narita airport
trade dispute; trade conflict; trade war
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967); Third Arab-Israeli War
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
Sino-Soviet Border Conflict (1969)
dispute between China and Vietnam
anticompetitive behaviour; anticompetitive behavior; anticompetitive practice
explosive remnants of war; ERW
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
Anglo-Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
Sikh Wars (1845-1846, 1848-1849)
Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Turko-Egyptian Wars (1831-1833; 1839-1840)
Anglo-Mysore Wars (1766-1799)
Anglo-Maratha Wars (1777-1783, 1803-1805, 1817-1818)
Lapland War (between Finland and Germany; 1944-1945)
hybrid warfare; hybrid war
war of national liberation
Omnibus Trade and Competition Act
Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union; 1941-1944)
business competitiveness; corporate competitiveness
Foreign Intervention in Russia (1917-1922)
war-risk insurance; war insurance
labor unrest; labour unrest
fighting over inheritance; inheritance dispute
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Anglo-Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
local competition (between telephone service providers)
labor slowdown; labour slowdown
collateral estoppel; issue preclusion
Bosnian Conflict (1992-1998)
blood diamond; conflict diamonds; war diamonds
Croatian War of Independence
War in North-West Pakistan
2007 Russia–Belarus energy dispute
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
Puntland–Somaliland dispute
Kurdish rebellions in Turkey
local competition (e.g. telephone)
internal discord; internal dissension