Sentence examples for foreign battles from inspiring English sources

This is unusual memorials at the sites of foreign battles are typically permanent but not entirely unprecedented.

Thank you for "Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles" (front page, Jan . 13, a bone-chilling article.

Ray Hazen Shelton, Wash., Jan . 14 , 2008 To the Editor: The "deadly echoes of foreign battles" you note are, indeed, being heard across America.

These involuntary participants bore the brunt of conquest in faraway continents – death by drowning in ships that never arrived, death at the hands of indigenous peoples who refused to submit, death in foreign battles for which they bore no responsibility, death by cholera and yellow fever, the two great plagues of empire.

Klausen's project identified 900 people who fought in foreign battles between 1993 and 2012 and found that nearly a third of them, 279, took part in violent terrorist plots on Western soil after their return.

In Egypt, a self-aggrandizing military that has mostly known defeat in foreign battle, and has served as an instrument of domestic repression, is running the show, two and a half years after acceding to an ostensible "people's revolution" demand to displace the country's (or, rather, the military) dictator, Hosni Mubarak.

The Boston Marathon suspect, moreover, is an American citizen and arrested on American soil, not in a foreign battle field.

Many government critics seem to accept, without scrutiny, the hazy notion that any local civilian who works for British forces during a foreign battle is consequently entitled to live in the UK after the fact.

Coming after 31 American troops died Wednesday in a helicopter crash in Iraq, the vote portended intense foreign policy battles in Congress in the months ahead.

CORRUPTION and the role of money in politics, voter apathy, emigration, foreign meddling, battles over history, ethnic integration: though a small country, Latvia is a testing ground for the biggest issues in European politics.

Richard N. Haass, director of policy planning at the State Department and a well-known combatant in the foreign policy battles of the Bush administration, is leaving the administration to become president of the Council on Foreign Relations, council officials said today.