Sentence examples for held war from inspiring English sources

At the same time, anyone could see that Poland's future held war or revolution, or both.

Upon their return from exile, they are refused their promised share of the kingdom, and, though parleys are held, war is inevitable.

Benjamin Jones (NYT) YUGOSLAVIA: TROOP EXERCISES -- An elite Yugoslav Army unit whose stated goal is to return to the NATO-controlled Serbian province of Kosovo held war games in Petlovo Bojiste, Serbia, a show of force apparently meant to improve President Slobodan Milosevic's tarnished image ahead of elections.

Germany's military and naval leaders, the predominant influence at court, shared a devil-may-care militarism that held war to be inevitable, time to be running out, and - like their Austrian counterparts - believed it would be better to go down fighting than to go on tolerating what they regarded as the humiliating status quo.

The XVIII Army staff held war games that predicted losses of four out of ten transports, and between 30 and 40 aircraft.

The Germans struck NW of the Line's end, through the Belgian/French Ardennes Forest, a route anticipated by the French Army which held war games there in 1939.

"We will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable," he said, without naming names.

The UK's record on holding war crimes inmates is not unblemished.

The castle was a private arsenal, never completed, designed to hold war surplus from the Civil and Spanish-American Wars.

To hold war councils and to design strategies with the explicit aim of crushing an opponent--this is very American.

He is in favor of holding war criminals accountable, but he says the courts that try them must serve clearly stated, limited purposes.