Sentence examples for fire war from inspiring English sources

Service has been suspended in the past by fire, war and a passing tanker with no sense of direction.

Mr. Johnson, for instance, played bass in a band, covering the legends of the day: Earth, Wind & Fire; War; Marvin Gaye.

But even great libraries, those of schools and cities, have come to ruin, destroyed by fire, war, or decree: Alexandria's famous library, Dresden's in 1945, others.

Nothing remains of what has passed across the stage during the two-hour traffic of our show - there was blood, water, fire, war, birdsong, moonlight.

Other slots have already been filled, by such masterworks as "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "War of the Worlds," "Batman Begins," and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith".

Some of it had been forgotten before it was possible to commit it to writing; fire, war, and the ravages of time have robbed posterity of most of the rest; and the restitutions that archaeologists and paleographers achieve from time to time are small.

And the public seems to at least have a vague idea that they are tired of 13 years of brush fire wars in faraway places.

Unlike most other one-handed writers, however, it was clear that Leith's columns were almost as hard-won as any under-fire war report.

The brush-fire war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, for instance, probably wouldn't have happened if America's patronage hadn't made our Georgian allies overestimate their ability to engage in brinkmanship with Vladimir Putin.

These days, after 210 years of fires, war, industrialization, aerial bombardment, architectural whimsy and pell-mell construction, a writer would need to expand this encomium to include the skyline's newest addition — a 309.6-meter 309.6-meteron, glass-coated spire known as The Shard — and perhaps some of the fuss that has come with it.

Russia has subsequently begun its biggest war games in decades, with combined force operations appearing to send simultaneous signals to ally China (there are longstanding Russian fears of China grabbing border territory, and the two countries fought a very brief brush-fire war in 1969), Japan, and of course the US.