Sentence examples for commencing hostilities from inspiring English sources

"We should remember that Hitler accused the Poles of commencing hostilities".

We should remember that Hitler accused the Poles of commencing hostilities in 1939, just as Stalin pinned the blame on the Finns when he invaded their country in 1940.

On the initiative of the German naval attaché Paul Wenneker, a copy was given to the Japanese; it provided valuable intelligence prior to their commencing hostilities against the Western Powers.

She reveled in her unabashed willingness to commence hostilities.

D'Souza commenced hostilities against the left as a collegiate editor of the rightwing Dartmouth Review.

The Red Wings and Stars commence hostilities at the Joe and the biggest news has nothing to do with Marty Turco or Brenden Morrow, Chris Osgood or Johan Franzen.

Consisting of formal trials of strength between the main forces of both sides, often enough battles resulted from a kind of tacit mutual consent to commence hostilities.

When the Athenians sailed in not long after and saw how things stood, the generals delivered their orders, and upon the Mitylenians refusing to obey, commenced hostilities.

The manager was the one who commenced hostilities, for a start, replying to an innocent question about Touré's availability for an EFL Cup match with a devastating critique of Seluk and his impertinence.

Perhaps, in your mind's eye, you even see him donning a costume as he commences hostilities, though you occasionally wonder what exactly such a costume would look like.

But Mr Briggs knew only two months of quiet before he was ordered to hoist flag "E" and "show up 46": "Commence hostilities against Germany".He had not joined the Royal Navy to fight.