Sentence examples for begun a war from inspiring English sources

Yet since 9/11 we have begun a war that may draw our soldiers into many battles involving intimate killing.

The 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel has just begun, a war Hezbollah provoked by crossing the border and kidnapping two Israeli soldiers.

Charles had also begun a war in Russia in an attempt to put forward his younger son, Charles Philip, for the vacant Russian throne and then, when his armies were deeply committed in Russia, had rashly provoked war with Denmark.

They regarded the Pakistani military that had entered the tribal areas as no different from the Americans — who they believed had begun a war of aggression in Afghanistan, just as the Soviets had years earlier.

The nation has begun a war, but it cannot fully rely on the very institutions — the police, customs, the courts, the prisons, even the relatively clean army — most needed to carry it out.

The GOP said the "War on Poverty" begun in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson has failed so instead they have begun a War on the Poor.

They quickly began a war of words.

"We never, never begin a war," he said.

In the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front MNLFF) began a war of secession against the Philippine government.

In August 1992 Georgia, itself in near anarchy, began a war in Abkhazia.

You may begin a war, but it is us who will end it.