Sentence examples for embracing a war from inspiring English sources

He generally won high marks for his leadership of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, despite criticism for embracing a war plan in Iraq that some saw as lacking sufficient military power.

Even so, Sherman would also hold rage in his heart at what he considered Confederate treason, and he came to embrace a war strategy to make the South pay for its disloyalty.

For social conservatives, he embraced a culture war against the faithless.

And he has been running for the presidency ever since.Mr Edwards has reinvented himself as a fully-fledged populist, renouncing his 2002 Senate vote in favour of the Iraq war and embracing a wide-ranging programme for helping the poor.

The stamp, depicting a World War II sailor embracing a woman welcoming him home, was intact.

The rhetorical bomb-throwing has activated a hard-right faction in the party who are excited to hear their anti-immigration views broadcast and who would embrace an intra-Republican war over immigration and other issues.

Congress should reject open-ended war and embrace a return to peace.

It is ambitious in that it requires a huge leap of faith from people often broken by war, to embrace a world of healing that sets store in good breathing, t'ai chi, meditation, cognitive therapy and the Hawaiian Huna technique of forgiveness (participants are encouraged to cut the imaginary cord holding them to the object of their anger).

He left behind the high-minded D.C. strategist and instead embraced a volatile man accused of war crimes and rights abuses, the Uzbek ex-jihadi commander Abdul Rashid Dostum.

However, nothing served to blur the lines between the justice systems of children and adults more than when America embraced a national and newly punitive war on crime in the wake of the civil-rights '60s.

While few memorials embraced a pacifist perspective, some anti-war campaigners used the memorials for rallies and meetings.