Sentence examples for financing war from inspiring English sources

The rebels, experts at financing war by mining Angolan diamonds, no longer have a conduit for selling diamonds on the international market or for military supply.

The elaborate complexities of financing war fleets in the 14th century, of papal diplomacy, the deliberations of dithering monarchs, battle formations, the minutiae of social upheavals revealed in ancient parish records, are pepper in Sumption's mortar.

In 1918 Ford bought a newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and in it published a series of scurrilous attacks on the "International Jew," a mythical figure he blamed for financing war; in 1927 he formally retracted his attacks and sold the paper.

A12 Financing War on Iraq Senator Robert C. Byrd, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said the Bush administration may have broken the law by failing to inform Congressional leaders in mid-2002 of its use of emergency antiterror dollars to prepare to invade Iraq.

As described in Atkinson and Piketty (2007), the drop in income concentration between 1914 and 1945 in Anglo-Saxon and continental Europe countries was primarily due to the fall in top capital incomes, as capital owners incurred severe shocks from destruction of infrastructure, inflation, bankruptcies and fiscal policy for financing war debts.

Sudden wealth from natural resources can become a curse, distorting the economy, fostering corruption or financing wars that are little more than a grab for the minerals.

First there was discontent with the royal policy for financing wars.

From the mid-15th century to the mid-18th century, according to historian Burton Stein, rulers of states in southern India commenced financing wars on a different footing than had their predecessors.

He explains how the bond market had its origins in the state's need for money to finance war.

B1 CURBING "BLOOD DIAMONDS" -- The House voted to give President Bush the power to impose trade sanctions on countries that sell diamonds to finance war or terrorism.

Such measures included open market interventions on foreign exchange, borrowing in foreign currencies rather than in pounds sterling to finance war activities, outbound capital controls, and limited import restrictions.