Sentence examples for existential war from inspiring English sources
The Second World War was an existential war.
Seen from a particular perspective in America, then, especially after 9/11, Israel and the United States, bound together by cold-war concerns in the 60's and 70's, were now thrown together in an existential "war against terrorism".
One sequence in which Northup is strung up like some strange fruit from a tree while life on the plantation ambles on around him achieves a surreal intensity that recalls the haunting poetry of Terrence Malick's existential war movie The Thin Red Line.
The reason for the public's decision was a perception that the country was not fighting a counter-insurgency campaign against terrorists or guerrillas, but an existential war that Syria and Iran forced upon it.
Hezbollah is no longer confined to merely being an irritant to Israel, but to fighting - what it sees - a greater existential war to determine the future of the Middle East.
In an editorial after the veto Tuesday, the Washington Post argued as much: "Environmental activists turned what should have been a routine infrastructure question into an existential war," the paper wrote.
We have climate change, which spawns pandemic, and drought and famine and migrations that flow like a river into existential wars for survival.
Mr. Pryce (a former artistic director of Everyman) plays the evasive, disheveled tramp who enters the West London apartment of two brothers and triggers a sort of ever-shifting existential turf war.
"Of course we won't agree on everything all the time — every family has its squabbles — but the periodic disagreements in the Democratic Party pale in comparison to the epic existential civil war for the soul of the Republican Party that is leading to so much dysfunction".
The second is that if they are put on trial, we run the risk of them taking the stand and being so eloquent in elucidating the case for existential holy war on the United States that a jury of Americans will immediately be convinced and will elect to acquit them of all charges, freeing them to roam the streets of America and become jihadi high school guidance counselors or something.
