Sentence examples for explain a war from inspiring English sources

Croatia was easy to explain: a war ended.

He must project a strong, reassuring presence to a nervous nation and to the men and women in uniform, and explain a war's objectives and risks.

As it turns out, our 12th commanding general there isn't the first to resort to biology and a "petri dish" to explain a war that just won't end.

My latest "Letter From India" is an attempt to explain a class war in Mumbai and, in that context, the meaning of Mr. Thackeray, who was both the most loathed and the most admired politician in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights".

This is hardly insightful: it does not help explain why a war estimated to have claimed over 5m lives drags on in Congo.Yet "Stringer" is still worth reading.

A lawful war, the lawyers explained, was a war in which a country sought to defend itself, or to defend a friend and ally, against an attacking enemy.

In support of his new policy, Bossi explained that a war had been fought in Europe – monetary and non-military, but nevertheless a war – and Italy had lost.

That is an easier policy to explain to a war-weary public and offers a way for the president to exercise a version of his "light footprint" strategy (the fight-at-a-distance strategy behind drones and cyberweapons) without getting mired in another Middle East nightmare.

And a limited programme of military aid might be enough to ward off Republican attacks that the administration is doing nothing about ISIS; critics will be hard pressed to explain to a war-weary public why America should be doing even more to reinsert itself into Sunni-Shiite bloodshed in Iraq.

Mast timber became, Campbell-Culver explains, "a high prized war trophy".