Sentence examples for announced war from inspiring English sources

Think of the "Bed-In" that she and Lennon staged in Amsterdam in 1969, or the billboard posters that announced: "War Is Over!

A Pentagon official announced war crimes charges Monday against a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, suspected of helping to plan the attack on the Navy destroyer Cole in 2000 that killed 17 American sailors.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — When military officials announced war crimes charges against six detainees for the Sept. 11 attacks two months ago, the move was part of an effort to accelerate the Bush administration's sluggish military commission system, which has yet to hold a single trial.

When the vote was announced, war veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa, who has spearheaded an 18-month campaign to remove a man he openly described as a "dictator", embraced colleagues and shouted: "The President is gone.

Mr. Blair has been America's most vocal ally in its announced war against terror, and Britain acted to get the original information out at a time when the United States was worried that doing so itself would compromise intelligence sources.

Just as the left has built hospitals, announced endless programmes to help the poor and indulged the teachers' unions, the right has built prisons, announced wars on drugs and terror, and indulged generals, farmers and policemen.

Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, said the administration did not ask for network time because it did not want to mistakenly telegraph to the broadcasters, or the news media at large, that the president was to announce war plans.

Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter.

Barack Obama recognised the war's failings when he announced: "The war on drugs has been an utter failure.

Poland's hopes for greater things revived once more when Napoleon announced his war against Russia (1812) as his "second Polish war".

Nolan was one of the architects of the Stop the War coalition, which was launched in 2001 after George W Bush announced his "war on terror".