| 1 | During his life , Southern Song was threatened by both domestic trouble and foreign invasions. | |
| 2 | BUT EVEN as a republic, China remained riven by internal strife and lacerated by external aggression. | |
| 3 | Chinese traditional ethnic relations are both internal and external problems in transition to modern circumstances. | |
| 4 | Rafa Benitez has praised Avram Grant for the job he is doing under difficult circumstances at Portsmouth. | |
| 5 | Mongolian-Wei Late Code came out as the product of the internal and external trouble of Mongolian society in the 17th century. |