Sentence examples for faced a war from inspiring English sources

They also faced a war on two fronts, in their case in China and the south.

Francis II, who succeeded Leopold II in 1792, faced a war with Revolutionary France, which seized Milan in 1796.

This was the year when Timothy McVeigh was executed, Senator James Jeffords switched parties, Chandra Levy disappeared, Slobodan Milosevic faced a war crimes tribunal, an American spy plane went down in China and Robert Hanssen of the F.B.I. was unmasked as a Russian agent.

He is the Kurdistan coördinator of the Halabja Medical Institute, which was founded by Gosden, Michael Amitay, the executive director of the Washington Kurdish Institute, and a coalition of Kurdish doctors; for the doctors, it is an act of bravery to be publicly associated with a project whose scientific findings could be used as evidence if Saddam Hussein faced a war-crimes tribunal.

The author questions if Israel is really facing a war of survival.

"He could face a war of attrition," said Stefano Folli, a columnist for the financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

American-appointed Iraqi leaders said he would eventually face a war crimes trial, but it was unclear when.

It is difficult to see how that can be achieved without stronger armed forces, especially since they now face a war on two fronts.

He has a riff on the economy as well, one that describes himself as inheriting a mess, facing a war, combating corruption and taking decisive action.

Instead, they're facing a "war room", field marshals and an union army with a new electoral energy, it seems, for the political battles ahead.

Another Pashtun warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has a past so soaked in blood that he is more likely to face a war crimes tribunal.