Velayutham Dayanidhi, better known as Daya Master, said that the decades-long war between them and the state was a waste of people's lives.

According to her, the purpose of the protests was to promote "Uribe's policy of perpetuating Colombia's decades-long civil war."

She came to Manhattan from a land still scarred by decades-long war.

In 2006, in the uneasy wake of the country's decades-long civil war, a fatherless boy sets out to murder a childless man.

Change was brought by the founding of the lordly residence, although the decades-long wars that soon followed thwarted any economic development.

LEAD: The next President will have a historic opportunity and obligation to end the decades-long cold war.

The verdict was a pivotal victory for federal prosecutors in their decades-long war of attrition against the New York mob.

Here, airwaves were filled with criticism, not recognition that both our countries face a decades-long war on Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.

Dress designers declared a truce in their decades-long war with the cattlemen!

The 1996 peace accords that ended the decades-long civil war removed a major obstacle to foreign investment.