Sentence examples for extended wars from inspiring English sources

Whether in crucial battles — in 36 days of fighting, 6,000 marines were killed at Iwo Jima — or in more controversial extended wars, that sacrifice is subject to no second guesses.

It describes an America "hardened by war" and "disciplined by a devastating economic crisis," and it concludes that the United States cannot sustain extended wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan while fulfilling other commitments.

The Ṣāliḥ kings, who were recognized by the Byzantine emperors, managed to control the area until the end of the 5th century, when a poll-tax dispute resulted in extended wars between the Ṣāliḥ and the Ghassānids, a tribe from western Arabia.

So there was no need to deploy our white blood cells (our troops) in extended wars, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, the latter country of which had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.

With the current $18 trillion dollar debt, about $3.3 to $4 trillion of it racked up by the extended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American militarism has helped drive the country off its enlightened historical path.

There is a misjudged air of precision in the idea of a renewed and extended war that closes at 18 months because that "benchmark" was settled in advance.

Building on Eritrean solidarity, among both fighters and exiles, the country's leaders tried to extend war-time discipline and the spirit of self-sacrifice to peacetime.

Recorded history begins in 1829, after the region was convulsed by extended intertribal wars.

But that egalitarianism rarely extended post-war.

In 1970, he extended the war into Cambodia.

Some experts said his effectiveness might hav e extended the war by two years.