Sentence examples for eve of war from inspiring English sources

Let me state the obvious: Berlin today is utterly unlike Berlin on the eve of war a century ago.

On the eve of war it rises.

It was published on the eve of war in 1939.

There were legitimate historical reasons for Japan to feel humiliated on the eve of war.

Then again, "we're not on the eve of war," Ms. Cagan said.

Of the 60 players who turned out for four London Scottish teams on the eve of war, 45 would die.

"What price our credibility with the next tyrant?" Mr Blair asked Parliament on the eve of war.

Here, on the eve of war in August 1914, a number of staff scribbled their names on the wall.

Mr Oren cites an eve-of-war note by Dean Rusk, the secretary of state, concluding that the "holy-war psychology" of the Arab world had collided with the "apocalyptic psychology" of an Israel that feared for its very survival.

Others argue that Israel "engineered eve-of-war lies and deceptions.... to give Israel the excuse needed to launch its strike", such as presenting a group of "captured fedayeen" to journalists, who were in fact Israeli soldiers.

Though he was not received officially by the Mexican government, he remained as an observer until the eve of war.