So was it, as some, including the German historian Fritz Fischer, have argued, a war council that demonstrates Germany's leadership was determined on a war of conquest, or was it – as I am inclined to think – yet another example of the kaiser shooting off his mouth?
Although several naval battles determined control of the seas, the outcome of the war was determined on the continent, predominantly in two major land operations.
Minister determined on organ donation.
Foreign Minister Berchtold and his government were clearly determined to make war on Serbia, regardless of the fact that such action might result in war between the Great Powers.
Although Dick Cheney says that the United States is determined to make war on Iraq, George W. Bush has promised to consult America's friends.
Asquith's innermost mind was "a region difficult to penetrate under the best of circumstances"; Austria-Hungary was determined to wage war on Serbia "with the bellicose frivolity of senile empires".
In the 1970s, the proliferation of leftwing guerrilla groups from the US to Germany, Spain and Italy determined to wage war on wealth, capitalism and the established political order left a trail of victims and instilled fear among the rich and famous that anyone was a target.
"What is it in the blast that's causing it the pressure, the noise, the cloud of fume?" After months of treating blast wounds in both American troops and Iraqi security forces, Ling had returned from his tour determined to wage war on brain injury.
Thereupon Caesar summoned the chiefs of Gaul from their homes; but, thinking it best to conceal the information in his possession, he comforted and encouraged them, and, having p189 made requisition of cavalry, determined to make war on the Germans.
