English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

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Look at the website www.britishlaw.org.uk to find out more about the law in the UK. Note 
down at least ten more useful legal words and expressions.
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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
War and peace
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War and violence
War is often seen as 
a last resort
1
when relations between states break down totally and 
diplomacy
2
and such measures as economic 
sanctions
3
have failed. The decision to take military action is 
rarely made lightly, since even the best-planned military operations, carried out with the benefit of 
the latest hi-tech 
weaponry
4
, inevitably result in 
civilian casualties
5
. Military 
intervention
6
may 
be carried out with the goal of 
regime change
7
, but it is often the leaders of 
tyrannical
8
regimes 
who are the most difficult to 
overthrow
9
. Even more tragic than wars between states is 
civil war
10
, 
which often begins with civil 
unrest
11
and 
clashes
12
between 
rival
13
ethnic
14
religious or political 
groups, and may 
escalate
15
into 
all-out
16
war and end in the 
brutal suppression
17
of one group by 
another or, in extreme cases, 
ethnic cleansing
18
and
 massacres
19
. 
Conflict resolution
20
may take 
years to bring into effect, and