Sentence examples for fierce wars from inspiring English sources

Spending at current levels will not sustain a military equipped both to assist American troops in big fierce wars and to perform the wide-ranging peacekeeping that British soldiers do particularly well.

Whatever criticisms may be made of Ginsberg as a poet, anyone leafing through this new record of his years will be struck by the consistency of his writing: those lamentations for an America of fierce wars, materialism and repressions; those pleas for spontaneity of emotions and an uninhibited record of his own (gay) life.

The place, "with its banks of spontaneous vegetation, its flowers, its creepers... and its thistles, the powerful trees whose roots often dislodged tombstones and forced up into the sunlight a few startled bones, had been both the target of and a witness to fierce wars of words and to one or two physical acts of violence".

During the fierce wars over affirmative action in the 1990s, King's words were even more shamelessly used to justify opposition to affirmative action.

For over a century, the two empires of southern India, the Western Chalukyas and the Chola dynasty of Tanjore fought many fierce wars to control the fertile region of Vengi.

A brief but fierce war ensued, in which the Israel Defense Forces destroyed much of Lebanon.

The pastoral god Murugan was identified with Skanda, and his mother, the fierce war goddess Korravai, with Durga.

"They announced that they want to work with the FSA and announced a fierce war against Isis.

William Morrow; 336 pages; $26.95The authors ask five questions of would-be mavericks, each of which focuses on winning the increasingly fierce war for talent.

The book concludes with five questions for would-be mavericks, each of which focuses on winning the increasingly fierce war for talent.

But after the scholars obtained a copy of a draft screenplay, criticized it severely and proposed substantial alterations, a fierce war of spin and counterspin broke out.