The U.S. involvement in the Balkans is a good example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's the World's Sheriff - the UN or the U.S.?] Reference

To avoid 'us vs. them' in Balkans, rewrite history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The gift to be complex] Reference

As new POWs wait in Balkans, a Vietnam MIA flag is folded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bailey, John E.] Reference

The Balkans are a graveyard for foreign ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toronto Sun] Reference

The Balkans was your only major military engagement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Rolling Stone Magazine A] Reference

I believe that the Balkans were a European responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Destroyed Post-9/11 Unity? The GOP, That's Who] Reference

Rwanda is a perfect example, the Balkans are a good example.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006] Reference

True to their name, the Balkans were the first to get affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Greek, Crete, North Africa, and the Balkans were at stake in the immediate term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 14, 2006] Reference

He is credited of bringing peace to the Balkans, which is far from being permanent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serbianna.com] Reference

Historically, the Balkans is a place where civilizations have converged-and clashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [theTrumpet.com: Front Page] Reference

Red Storm Over the Balkans is a must read for any serious student of the Eastern Front.    From Wordnik.com.  [StrategyPage.com] Reference

But I do want to say that, what we did in the Balkans was a thrilling thing to be part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2009] Reference

The region of Eastern Europe is known as The Balkans consisting of about 13 ethnic groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

Sunset as seen from the lower foothills of the Balkans is a rare pageant of glowing colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulgaria] Reference

The interviews in the Balkans were the first of many Hall conducted for Human Rights Watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference

The Balkans were the starting point of the First World War that aimed at destroying Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Global Strategy in Georgia] Reference

I was no Clinton fan, but as I said earlier, his efforts in the Balkans were his finest hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Compares Iraq War Critics To Hitler Appeasers] Reference

The few months that I spent in the Balkans were the months of the war, and they taught me much.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life]

Today he is the Khatib in the biggest Masjid in the entire Balkans, which is located in Sarajevo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia Gorin: Utah Paper Reassures Americans by Interviewing Moderately Violent Bosnian Imam] Reference

You recall in the 1980s, we originally said the Balkans is a European problem, let them handle it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2003] Reference

We must remember that the Balkans are a troubling area, and that it was trouble in the Balkans that sparked World War I.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Radio Address To Nation] Reference

As is usually the case in the bloodied geopolitical sandbox known as the Balkans, an international peacekeeping force intervened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

So I think your scenario is -- maybe the Balkans is a good one, but somebody in Berlin or Frankfort, or in Athens, will not have a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On The Global Positioning System] Reference

I am also thinking 'Balkans' and 'Darfur' when I read about the EU trying to stop conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Polite and good-natured people think it rude to say "Balkans" if a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Theories and the Balkan War] Reference

They are all his friends and so are the "Balkans," and all the little Balkans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference

The Balkans is a fault line.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008] Reference

The Balkans are a good example.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006] Reference

The Balkans are a region, not a people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: November 15, 2006] Reference

The Balkans are the Graveyard of Empires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

The War in the Balkans was a NATO operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi] Reference

Like it or not, the Balkans are a place apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Much To Celebrate] Reference

And in the Balkans, so far it's the Serbs who are winning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will There Be 'A Second Nuremberg'?] Reference

In the Balkans, everyone is a minority somewhere or other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Of Place] Reference

As everyone in the Balkans knows by now, that makes us all losers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Of Place] Reference

The debate over whether America has interests in the Balkans is now somewhat irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Do We Do Now?] Reference