Sentence examples for a sequence of wars from inspiring English sources

Navigation and mapping were both essential for the successful conduct of war - and England was involved in a sequence of wars against the French and the Dutch in this period.

A sequence of war footage from Iraq shows vehicles and aircraft being bombed and dead bodies.

A drama documentary by Simon Armitage, an orchestral piece by Christopher Reid set in the first world war, and a sequence of dramatic war poems by Andrew Motion were all in the running for this year's award.

Both films were written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell and adapted from a sequence of Civil War books begun by Michael Shaara, whose 1974 novel, "The Killer Angels," became the movie "Gettsysburg".

A sequence of bloody civil wars, later termed the Wars of the Roses, finally broke out in 1455, spurred on by an economic crisis and a widespread perception of poor government.

Edward had meanwhile become embroiled in a long-running sequence of wars in Scotland which began to consume his attention and financial resources, and as a result further work on the Welsh castles slowed to a crawl.

The offending words occur in "All of Us," a sequence of 31 World War I poems that appear in their entirety for the first time in a new two-volume critical edition of Lawrence's verse, to be published in the United States on April 30.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

The Albany Symphony ran into similar pacing problems with a program inspired by the Civil War era: a sequence of eight short pieces based on spirituals had a stop-and-start rhythm, the forms too short for individual voices to emerge.

Thousands of mourners have attended the funerals of two Palestinian men suspected of the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers three months ago, an event that triggered a sequence of actions leading to the 50-day war in Gaza.

These confounding pictures are as difficult to look at as they are to move beyond, though a sequence of projected photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan by the war photographer Ron Haviv are comparably gripping.