Sentence examples for drawn out war from inspiring English sources
To fight "a long, long drawn out war": Muammar Qaddafi, according to his audio message, which was released on Thursday on Syrian TV, in which he also declared Sirte the new capital of Libya.
What starts as a limited provocation or incident gradually spirals out of control into a long drawn out war.
Its best chance of victory was to launch a surprise blitz attack that could quickly take hold of the entire peninsula; now it is stuck fighting a drawn out war it cannot win.
It may explain why there's little coverage for the millions displaced in The Democratic Republic of Congo, where 45,000 people continue to die each month, and more than 6 million people have died from long drawn out war and famine?
As the author emphasizes, a country like his own, now in the process of recovering from a long drawn out war has a lot of renovation to do.
In trying to transform the war for Union into a "war of abolition," conservatives feared that Sumner would draw out the war and poison the Republicans as "a 'John Brown Party.'" With Sumner in the crosshairs, and the echoes of "John Brown's Body" in mind, the New York Herald took on these rabble a few days later.
For evidence, just go to Congo, where Mobutu Sese Seko ruled imperiously for decades courtesy of the United States, or to Angola, whose long wars were drawn out by the superpower sponsorship of its local tyrants.
And the wars are so drawn out in part because, as Mr Fallows and Robert Gates suggest, there's nothing concrete at stake for most Americans.
From local skirmishes along the frontier, a long drawn-out war with the Turks developed (1592 1606).
Such a scenario would lead to a new drawn-out war, as in Iraq or Afghanistan.
