Sentence examples for accident of war from inspiring English sources

That kind of tragic accident of war came to be known during World War II as friendly fire.

An inevitable accident of war, you might think, except that their vehicle was 20 years old and lacked armour a death trap, rather than a lifesaver.

"If we did it, and I'd say there's at least a fair chance that we did, it was an unintentional accident of war," Townsend told reporters on Tuesday.

Though there has been a tendency to see this as the almost inevitable consequence of the rise of Turkish and Arab nationalism, it seems in fact to have been the accident of war that broke off the Arab provinces.

The parents of one soldier blamed him for the death of their son, a claim which Schwarzkopf strongly denied and termed an accident of war.

"The writer died while mixing with the rebels, these are natural accidents of war," said Franco.

Yet had it not been for the accidents of war there is little chance that Mira would ever have known the Korkuts.

Accidents of war took Khmer dance (and perhaps shadow theatre) first to Laos, when in 1353 a prince who had been raised at Angkor established an independent Lao court at Luang Prabang.

To be clear, the prosecutions would be for particular acts, not for general practices, but statements by Israeli officials explaining their policies could well provide evidence that the acts were intentional and not mere accidents of war.

It's no accident that thoughts of war recur in his songs.

It is no accident that "Kings of War" was scheduled to run immediately in advance of the election, but even Joseph Melillo, the executive producer of BAM, could not have foreseen how crucial, and illuminating, it would turn out to be.