'bound for war' is a valid phrase in written English
It is commonly used to describe your intent to prepare for or enter into a conflict. For example, "The two sides are now bound for war, with neither side ready to back down."
But as the months passed, it became clear to him that a disaster was in process, that Hitler was bound for a war to dominate Europe.
Amnesty said the UK "should immediately suspend export licences for all further arms bound for the Saudi war machine pending the outcome of its own review of UK arms to Saudi Arabia".
The Ministry of Defence knew beforehand that the Department of Health feared problems might arise from administering anthrax and whooping cough vaccines together to troops bound for the first Gulf war, it was claimed yesterday.
In the basement of the priory -- then at 338 East 29th Street -- the Carmelites stashed part of a cache of 600 Thompson submachine guns, wrapped in burlap sacks and bound for Ireland during the war for independence, according to Alfred Isacsson, a Carmelite priest and historian.
We either make this leap or we're bound for extinction, either through war or through cataclysmic environmental changes.
After all, a 19-year-old Eddie Pearce had boarded a B-17 bound for Germany in World War II and, after parachuting out of a burning plane, survived two years in Stalag 17 prison camp.
Then he joined an English steamer — not a war vessel — bound for the Sea of Azov (not the Bosphorus).
The majority of migrants bound for Italy are fleeing poverty, wars and dictatorships in Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan and the Gambia.
For Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who military officials said gunned down dozens of soldiers at Fort Hood, Tex., on Thursday, that point may have come even before he experienced the reality of war; he was bound for a combat zone but had not yet embarked.
Our guide told us that this was a holy place: during World War II, soldiers bound for the front lines were bid farewell from that point - and then they sailed north across the Aral Sea.
