Sentence examples for essential war from inspiring English sources

Then, once they had begun essential war work, they received pay packets from the government and that also helped.

The trading houses of Monterrey, Vidaurri told his guest, could provide the South with essential war supplies — not only lead, powder, saltpeter, copper and bronze, but also flour, cloth and shoes.

When the 2008 Obama called Afghanistan an essential war and vowed to take out terrorist havens in Pakistan, he wasn't just posturing to prove he was as hawkish as Hillary Clinton — which is what some chose to hear.

As many women in rural Canada worked at farming (not deemed to be essential war work), only Ontario and Quebec opened wartime childcare centres.

However, there was little government involvement until World War II when the federal government intervened in childcare for the first time, agreeing in 1943 to share with provinces the cost of childcare centres for mothers working in essential war industries.

Even bureaus seemingly remote from the war effort, such as the Department of the Interior, claimed to be performing "essential war work" and therefore were entitled to bigger budgets and more personnel.

It does say something eternal and essential about war.

As Kandahar changed hands, completing the Taliban's fall from power, two essential American war aims remained unfulfilled: the elimination of the accused terrorist Osama bin Laden and the capture of the Taliban leader who harbored him as he defied the United States.

The surrender, which would virtually complete the rout of the Taliban, would also leave one essential American war aim unfulfilled: the capture or killing of Mr. bin Laden, long the Taliban's honored "guest" and the man accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attack on the United States.

"Just take a run through the essential Vietnam War checklist," wrote Tom Engelhardt in Mother Jones magazine, noting "there's 'quagmire' " and "the idea of winning 'hearts and minds' " as well as "bomb-able, or in our era drone-able, 'sanctuaries' across the border" and even "a one-man version of My Lai".

They were also more central to society than their modern counterparts, being essential for war, agriculture, and transport.