Sentence examples for heavy war from inspiring English sources

Though the emperor Charles V occupied Württemberg again during his war against the League of Schmalkalden, he restored it to Ulrich on payment of a heavy war indemnity (1547).

"American History" by Donald A. Ritchie, a textbook used by many eighth graders nationwide, says that "heavy war debts and rising unemployment caused great discontent among the German people and led directly to the rapid growth of two antidemocratic parties -- the Communist Party and the Nazi Party".

From the other end of the political spectrum, Oxfam and Jubilee Iraq have taken much the same position, while Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobelist, is advocating relief on more prudent grounds, citing the lessons of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which required Germany to pay heavy war reparations.

That means that the people we usually rely on to protect Social Security and Medicare may have been compromised by heavy war industry donations.

Pitched battles were avoided if at all possible, with most offensive warfare in the early Middle Ages taking the form of sieges, or swift mounted raids called chevauchées, with the warriors lightly armed on swift horses and their heavy war horses safely in the stable.

After a series of heavy wars, he incorporated Mesopotamia as far as the Euphrates River.

In a series of heavy wars about which not much is known, Marduk-kabit-ahheshu (c. 1152 c. 1135) established what came to be known as the 2nd dynasty of Isin.

As the Great War continued, heavier howitzers and longer-ranging guns were made so large that they could not be split into convenient loads for road movement.

The terrain has made a heavy ground war next to impossible.

Will you help us raise $25,000 for Shaheen's campaign right now?" She has quite a heavy campaign war chest, raising $1.1m in the fourth quarter of 2013 alone.

The pipes growled hungrily, a heavy metal war cry erupted from the speakers and, as it barrelled toward the Pacific, the Bentley was once again utterly, entirely in its element.