Sentence examples for avoidance of the war from inspiring English sources

Popkin argues that Kerry's heroism in Vietnam, and the courage of his conviction in his Senate testimony particularly when compared with Bush's avoidance of the war, and his absenteeism from the Texas Air National Guard is more important to the campaign than the particulars of his position on Iraq, because voters know what they think about Vietnam and remain confused by Iraq.

Popkin argues that Kerry's heroism in Vietnam, and the courage of his conviction in his Senate testimony — particularly when compared with Bush's avoidance of the war, and his absenteeism from the Texas Air National Guard — is more important to the campaign than the particulars of his position on Iraq, because voters know what they think about Vietnam and remain confused by Iraq.

It was 1992, and doubts about Bill Clinton's integrity, stoked by his marital infidelities and avoidance of the Vietnam War, were the biggest threat to his presidential campaign.

There was a strong belief in many capitals that firmness would lead to the avoidance of war; that the Austrians would surely back down if the Russians backed Serbia; and that the Russians would back down if the Germans backed Austria.

On his view, the function of a world government should only be to ensure the avoidance of war and the pursuit of peace (Russell 1938 230-31).

On the other hand, Robert Dallek in an NYT op-ed that day explains that JFK's avoidance of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, introduction of the civil rights act as a "moral imperative," and stirring calls to public service were distinguishing... and, presumably after beating Goldwater, he would have done far more.

Even the lower figure is huge: about the same as the total amount of development aid doled out every year.So even for the most stony-hearted mercantilist, the avoidance of renewed war makes sense.

In Easter 1918 he spoke at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia to introduce conscription.

It boasts of no diplomatic accomplishments except the avoidance of nuclear war.

The avoidance of civil war had dominated our thinking for many years, but when we decided to adopt violence as part of our policy, we realised that we might one day have to face the prospect of such a war.

"I now conclude that however astutely the crisis may have been managed," former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said in Havana last week, "luck also played a significant role in the avoidance of nuclear war by a hair's breadth".