Sentence examples for a compelling war from inspiring English sources

He fought in the US army and wrote a compelling war novel, Crusaders (1948), before reacting to McCarthyism by abandoning the US for East Germany.

And oh, what a lovely, frightening and utterly compelling war it is that they are waging at the John Jay College Theater.

War correspondents have also found it a compelling way to capture the chaos around them.

St Helens took the direct route to Old Trafford for the second year in a row and they will need every bit of the fortnight they now have to prepare for the grand final to recover from this utterly compelling war of attrition.

Even now, only half of Americans think Mr Bush has made a compelling case for war.

For the better part of a year Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has been overseeing one review after another as the Pentagon struggled to define a compelling post-cold-war mission and force structure for the American military.

President Obama has not made a compelling case for the war and has set a deadline for the start of withdrawal that seems curiously close to the anticipated start of his 2012 campaign for a second term.

Neither did it persuade the American electorate that there was a compelling rationale for the war, something that has been in doubt ever since the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.

This second Gulf War, however, was a compelling test of the Rumsfeld way of war.

As Australia counts down to what the federal government chooses to commemorate as the centenary of Anzac (much of the rest of the world views it globally as the 100th anniversary of the first world war) it offered a compelling and instructive insight into Australian sentiments about war, remembrance and national identity.

The 70th anniversary of the end of the war was a compelling time to find out where it belonged.