We have managed to avoid a large-scale war for 45 years.
I don't know that we should even consider a large-scale war of the conventional type".
I think there will be war, not a large-scale war but war will happen".
If it turns out that we are to engage in a large-scale war, then the nation is being prepared in an odd way.
Despite the violence, Armenia's Defence Minister said this week that he believes there were "no grounds" for a "large-scale war".
In "Windtalkers," the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the clichés of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre.
Choosing his words carefully in a volatile atmosphere that included serious talk about the possibility of a world war, Mr. Powell said: "Let's not assume there will be a large-scale war.
He also accused the F.S.B. — the K.G.B.'s successor organization — of bombing a series of Russian apartment buildings, killing three hundred people, in order to win public support for a large-scale war in Chechnya.
North Korean leaders know that they are safe from military retaliation — a large-scale war against the North is winnable but prohibitively costly, while small-scale strikes against their military installations would only kill common soldiers, whose lives are expendable.
Bin Laden's apparent goal was to draw the United States into a large-scale war in the Muslim world that would overthrow moderate Muslim governments and reestablish the Caliphate (i.e., a single Islamic state).
