Sentence examples for chiefly a war of from inspiring English sources

Then came the armaments race culminating in WWI horror; it was chiefly a war of artillery, and the demand for explosives was voracious.

It was a war of terrible mistakes and mis-management and, these days, is chiefly remembered for the work of Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Betsy Cadwalader.

A war of attrition began.

The understanding of war among people who have not experienced war is now chiefly a product of the impact of these images.

This is chiefly a qualitative aspect of the project.

Last year, some 2,000 civilians were killed in a war that consists chiefly of arbitrary shootings, kidnappings, torture and disappearances.

Nobody had told the Samatenje of Sadjunjira that Carr would be arriving by helicopter, a vehicle known to the mountain people chiefly as an instrument of war, and the noise of the thing as it descended near his compound outraged his entourage.

"Chiefly About War-Matters" includes a series of footnotes, which Hawthorne wrote in the supposed voice of the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

The ECA is chiefly a trade association, representing the interests of about 2,000 member companies.

In "Chiefly About War Matters," by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Behind the legitimation of both wars, however, lies a broad ideological investment in the idea of "just wars" -- chiefly, in practice, wars fought by the commercial democracies in the name of democracy, to advance their own interests without an unseemly overbalance of conspicuous selfishness.