Sentence examples for habit of war from inspiring English sources

The FARC's leaders seem to be in no hurry to abandon a 50-year habit of war for the uncertainties of peace.

The habit of war "helped to hone the European nation states into veritable fighting machines" and the incorporation of merchant classes into the elites encouraged European rulers to promote capitalism.

ISIS is that sad prophecy come true; the habit of war prevailed.

That is a habit of war more than the proven effectiveness of war -- a habit we need to break.

To forge solutions to conflict that are an alternative to the endless and failed habits of war demands a much stronger set of other strategies -- which the White House has yet to fully understand or embrace.

They are not sufficient by themselves to prevent states from lapsing back into their old habits of warring on one another.

If so, why do Islamic State spokesmen have a habit of declaring war against millions of citizens of various far-flung countries — Japan, France — on YouTube and Twitter?

MIDDLE EASTERNERS have had a habit of making war but they suffer a stronger addiction to hummus, the chickpea dip that is a staple of Levantine cuisine.

But we have also made a habit of declaring war on ideologies (Communism, Islamic extremism), on broadly defined patterns of violence (terrorism, piracy), and even on abstract social ills (poverty, drugs).

Pakistan's army is similarly keen to be known for more than its habit of starting wars and launching coups.India, on a grander scale, likes to see global policing as a sign of its emergence as a world power.

ReprintsSo it has been with some bafflement that the French have watched Mr Hollande adopt the habits of a war leader.