Sentence examples for avoided wars from inspiring English sources

He emerged from a country that had avoided wars since the early 19th century, had undergone radical social and economic change and was punching above its weight in most fields, quite literally in sport, when Ingemar Johansson became World Heavyweight Champion in 1959.

Sweden, in contrast, avoided wars since two centuries, and Swedish life expectancy at birth also increased smoothly but non-linearly since two centuries, Figure 2, without showing a reliable tendency to become constant.

I have avoided war; he was always in it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower made decisions which ended the war in Korea and avoided war in the Middle East.

Eisenhower avoided war to save the world". Maybe.

Kennedy also avoided war where many would not have.

They avoided war or further war and preserved force and the Israelis withdrew.

Grant avoided war with Spain over the Virginius Affair, but Congress rejected his attempted annexation of the Dominican Republic.

Maybe we should offer one to our leaders, might help them resolve conflicts and avoid wars!

It was also a useful mechanism to avoid wars between the member countries themselves.

So how does the rest of the industrialized, civilized world avoid wars?