Sentence examples for and treasure in a from inspiring English sources

We continue to spend American lives and treasure in a place that is and always will be a tribal, third-world nation.

This may not be the "victory" sought by Bush Administration speechwriters, but for many Americans in both major political parties, after the expenditure of so much blood and treasure in a war that became a strategic cul-de-sac, it would be more than good enough.

With a budget battle looming and the United States trying to extricate its fighting forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, he was loath to commit troops and treasure in a country that his defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, said was not a vital interest of the United States.

Postponing a final end to U.S. military action in Afghanistan until 2014 puts U.S. taxpayers and American troops on the hook for an enormous investment of blood and treasure in a failing enterprise with no prospects for a turnaround.

So let's not fool ourselves by thinking that we're doing favors for Afghan women by investing American blood and treasure in an unsustainable war here.

If not, I fear that in a few years, as America spends its blood and treasure in an unwinnable counter-insurgency war in Central Asia, protesters may soon be chanting the same slogans at Obama as were once chanted against LBJ.

In Telengard, the player travels alone through a dungeon fraught with monsters, traps, and treasures in a manner similar to the original Dungeons & Dragons.

War is what we invest our time, energy, and treasure in on a scale that is, in its own way, remarkable, even if it seldom registers in this country.

The decision will bear directly on the payoff America could yet reap for all its spent blood — more than 4,000 American lives — and treasure, in the form of a democratic ally in a combustible region that would be a check on Iranian power and offer American access to Iraq's vast oil reserves.

Nations should recognize that conflict is endemic to the international arena, and they should not expend blood and treasure in the name of an abstraction.

Because we've all spent a lot of blood and treasure in Afghanistan.