Sentence examples for called a war on from inspiring English sources

It is being called a war on cancer, but it may be a slight misnomer, because cancer is not one disease; it is a formidable army of many diseases.

Zukunft said it shouldn't ever be called a "war on drugs," anymore but instead a campaign.

Hartford initiated what Mr. Ford called a "war on rats," with surveys to determine which neighborhoods were most infested.

The claims come as Russia's involvement intensifies in what the Kremlin has called a "war on terrorism", causing increasing concern in the West.

But from the start, Cheney and Rumsfeld began pushing for a much wider change, what the president called a "war on terror".

After America started bombing IS last year, Mr al-Jolani discussed joining ranks with IS to counter what he called a "war on Islam", although the increasing brutality of IS has reduced the chances of rapprochement between the two groups.

Paul Smith, chief executive of the haart chain of estate agents, says the number of buy-to-let transactions has tumbled 63% this year, amid what he calls a "war on landlords".

The videos released by Isis, showing the destruction of Nimrud and other sites, as part of what it calls "a war on false idols", have caused an international outcry, but the extremist force has also been cashing in on the illegal export of the region's cultural heritage.

The gains, the company says, will be coming from the growth of card and other electronic-based means of payment, which are a product of what MasterCard chief executive Ajay Banga Ajay Banga calls a "war on cash".

Founder Gavin McInnes has rallied his fellow extremists against what he calls a "war on masculinity," while rubbing elbows with anti-Semites and white nationalists.

The turning point came in 1971 when President Richard Nixon called for a war on drugs and referred to illegal drugs as "public enemy number one".