Sentence examples for decided the war from inspiring English sources

The campaign of 207 decided the war in Italy.

Most of us long ago decided the war was a mistake and tuned out.

Foote does write that the fight on Little Round Top might "perhaps" have decided the war.

Hochschild's stirring history of World War I concentrates on the losses suffered by Britain's rank and file and on the courage of those, like the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who decided the war was not a just one.

Asking if there was one single incident that decided the war's outcome, he answers by pointing not to some lapse of Southern will or instance of Northern superiority, but to a moment in 1864.

In the words of Michael Whitby, the main modern expert on Maurice's reign, it was "without parallel in the sixth century" for the Danube frontier, and which essentially decided the war for Byzantium.

It might help matters if activists didn't treat every skirmish as if it would decide the war.

The government's loss of Surt could help decide the war, since it blocks the rebels' advance toward the west of the country and Tripoli.

The Danes, therefore, provide a bellwether of European opinion about the war amid a growing, Continent-wide popular consensus that it cannot be won: If even the Danes decide the war is unwinnable, then perhaps it is.

Their swift return, recapturing two important oil refineries and a strategic port within 20 hours, set the stage for a battle in Surt that could help decide the war.

But for the Syrian rebels, massed on the nearby Al-Akrad mountain launching wave after wave of attacks on Qerdaha, it is the elusive prize that could decide the war.