Sentence examples for embarked upon a war from inspiring English sources

We are embarked upon a war that has no clear limits and may require deep engagement in a region of the world that is strange and hostile to us.

Had the U.S. not embarked upon a preventive war against Iraq ― had this Original Sin of the post-9/11 era not occurred ― a Trump presidency would have been far less likely.

By the time I was a freshman in high school I had, like many of my white female peers, embarked upon an ongoing war with my body.

In any case, rather than play it safe after Death Proof's ignominious box office performance, he immediately embarked upon a second world war comedy.

When he became Venice's doge in 1423, Francesco Foscari embarked upon a series of wars in mainland Italy, particularly against Milan.

King Dom João VI embarked upon a series of wars of conquest which resulted in the expansion of Brazil's territory with the annexation of Cisplatina to the south and of French Guiana to the north.

As certain areas of the South fell under Federal military control in the course of the war, Lincoln embarked upon a process of lenient Reconstruction under presidential control.

"WAR MUSIC: RECENT STABS AT THE EPIC" Starting in 1959, the British poet Christopher Logue embarked upon a filmic reimagining of the Iliad, turning the Trojan War epic into a multi-volume series known collectively as "War Music".

He grew up in privilege on the north shore of Long Island, graduated from Princeton, served in the Army during World War II and embarked upon a long life of constant reinvention.

In 1805 06, amid the Napoleonic wars, Gay-Lussac embarked upon a European tour with another Arcueil colleague, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

No movie has more economically evoked the Third Reich as a regime of failed artists and crank aesthetes embarked upon a demented project to "beautify" the world -- through war and mass murder.