Sentence examples for decisions of the war from inspiring English sources

Westmoreland later called the redeployment one of the most critical decisions of the war.

John Nott, the then defence secretary and a member of the war cabinet that authorised the sinking, said it was "one of the easiest decisions of the war".

Instead, in what proved to be one of the crucial decisions of the war, the Bush Administration moved to dissolve the Army.

As liaison between the president and the armed services, Leahy conferred with Roosevelt daily, presided over the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and participated in almost all the major military and diplomatic decisions of the war years.

With characteristic bad timing, Elsa's old lover, Admiral von Spee, drops by on his way to the Falklands - providing a romantic if far-fetched explanation for one of the most fateful decisions of the war.

It's not clear why Kershaw slights such important events except that they don't fit into his questionable conceit that the key decisions of the war were made in 1940-41.

He allows NATO to expand to the very borders of Russia and, his decision on the war in Iraq notwithstanding, acts like the American president's friend.

"The order from London to sink the Belgrano", The Sunday Times Insight Team remarked in their book The Falklands War published in 1982, "was undoubtedly the most controversial decision of the war" (P.157), one that led to over three hundred deaths.

We hope and believe that we shall be able to continue the struggle indefinitely and as long as the enemy pleases, and the longer it continues the more rapid will be our approach first towards that parity and then into that superiority in the air upon which in a large measure the decision of the war depends.

Hand made his most memorable decision of the war in 1917 in Masses Publishing Co.

While the movie faithfully recounts Lincoln's hardscrabble log-cabin life in Illinois and the harrowing moral decisions of the Civil War, it also adopts a perspective heretofore unembraced in historical circles: That the pivotal events of the 16th president's life were maliciously engineered by vampires and that Honest Abe was vengefully intent on cleaving into as many of said ghouls as possible.