Sentence examples for compared with war from inspiring English sources

Compared with war, diplomacy is relatively cheap.

Compared with war, the usual things that disrupt travel during coming months, like snowstorms, may seem easy to bear.

Several contemporaries lived there, including William Styron, Peter Matthiessen and Irwin Shaw (author of The Young Lions, another war novel inevitably compared with War and Peace), but the most potentially valuable friendship Mailer formed was with James Baldwin, himself a proven novelist and journalist, though settled in a lower league than Mailer.

Compared with war-crimes courts from Nuremberg to Sierra Leone, the Iraqi Special Tribunal is unique in that it is not an independent international judiciary from the start.

They were like the current war(s) in the Middle East compared with World War II: The former is something we literally don't see much of, while the latter provided iconic imagery of fighting and, well, death.

True, the damage wrought by the Weatherpeople is trivial compared with the war itself and has arguably been more thoroughly denounced.

The plastic bag crisis compared with the war in Iraq, NHS marketisation or the shortage of affordable housing, seems pretty trivial, but the green movement globally is campaigning against them - and rightly so.

The more realistic the game becomes — technological advances have made the original Doom seem quaint compared with newer war simulators, like the Call of Duty and the Battlefield series — the easier it is to lose your own identity in it.

He has also exulted in the assassination of Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas's military commander, which was followed up by a series of strikes that appeared to have knocked out most of Hamas's longer-range missiles and their launchers (see article).The Israelis may also draw satisfaction from the lesser degree of opprobrium they have received compared with the war of 2008-09.

Despite a wealthy alumnus donating $60m over his lifetime in 2004, the school's endowment fund is just $27m, a puny sum compared with others' war chests: Harvard Business School's is $2.7 billion.Thunderbird thinks the Laureate deal, which it hopes to ratify within weeks, could herald a return to the good days.

Given the duration of these wars and the length and frequency of deployments, when compared with other wars, perhaps such high rates of PTSD are not so surprising.