Sentence examples for define war from inspiring English sources

Tolstoy famously rejected all attempts to define War and Peace and insisted it wasn't a novel at all.

Another reader, Roscoe Gort, commented on an article this week, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror".

More generally, then, we should define war as a self-replicating pattern of activity that may or may not require human participation.

Sundel developed the argument that the Constitution vests in Congress -- not the president -- the power to define war crimes, and that it had done so in 1996 when it passed the War Crimes Act.

Stallworthy embarked on what became The Penguin Book of Love Poetry (1973) "to sweeten", he wrote, "an imagination otherwise occupied by the war poems of Wilfred Owen", though he returned to the subject of war with The Oxford Book of War Poetry (1984) and continued to define war literature studies thereafter.

There are many ways to define war, just as there are many ways to violate a woman's body.

The doctrine defines war as an evil, but does not mention the Russian operation in Chechnya.

It defines war as a conflict in which there are 1,000 battlefield deaths.

For America, the potential risk is that its nonpolitically defined war on terrorism may thus be hijacked and diverted to other ends.

Defining 'War,' " by Paul Starobin (Sunday Review, Aug. 7), about Harold Koh, the State Department legal adviser, paints too simplistic a picture of the legal basis for the Libya operation.

Clausewitz cogently defines war as a rational instrument of foreign policy: "an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will".