Sentence examples for asked for the war from inspiring English sources

President Yoweri Museveni asked for the war crimes investigation.

The Chamber also asked for the war department to declare the road a military highway in order to receive federal assistance for its improvement.

In the late 1970's, President Carter explored the possibility of opening diplomatic relations, but he gave up when Vietnam asked for the equivalent of war reparations.

Göring asked for the post of War Minister, but was turned down; he was appointed to the rank of field marshal.

General Hastings Ismay, Churchill's chief of staff during the war, asked for the painting when his prime minister offered him a reward for his services.

So why then did she recently slum it in the Kristen Stewart-less Snow White sequel no one asked for, The Huntsman: Winter's War? Turns out, even Oscar-nominees need a fat payday.

The British had asked for the traditional Honors of War (marching out with dignity, flags waving, muskets shouldered, and playing an enemy [American] tune as a tribute to the victors), but remembering that the British, on taking Charleston earlier in the war, had refused the Americans (under Benjamin Lincoln) the same privilege, Washington firmly denied their request.

Before the war Ribbentrop asked for the Irroy agency in Berlin, but was turned down because of his limitations as a salesman.

Japan's government ordered those corporations that asked for the use of white prisoners of war as laborers to pay the prisoners a specific wage: Japanese soldiers' pay according to rank.

"We did not ask for this war, and we have every interest in the world to end it," he told the army radio.

We are happy because some of us had been asking for this war for a long time.