Sentence examples for likelihood of a war from inspiring English sources

Over the weekend, the likelihood of a war between India and Pakistan receded slightly.

WITH Mr. Bush confronting the likelihood of a war with Iraq, the continued threat of terrorist attacks and a soft economy, tax reform is not his highest priority.

American intelligence agencies warned President Clinton last spring that the likelihood of a war between India and Pakistan that could erupt into a nuclear conflict had increased significantly, according to officials with access to the secret intelligence.

David Watt, an economist for BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto, said Americans' surprisingly pessimistic view was shaped by an abysmal holiday shopping season, the increased likelihood of a war against Iraq and higher prices for gasoline and heating oil.

Few people on Incirlik Air Base, the home of the pilots who maintain the northern no-flight zone, are willing to speculate on the likelihood of a war with Iraq.

Behind President Clinton's blunt warning last spring that South Asia was the world's most perilous region lay an assessment from American intelligence agencies that the likelihood of a war between India and Pakistan that could erupt into a nuclear conflict had increased significantly, according to officials with access to the secret intelligence.

A more judicious view is that many French statesmen had long seen the possibility and even the likelihood of a general war, and they suspected that the German government desired such a war; the Poincaré group believed that under these circumstances France could not risk the loss of its allies.

Without effective international support for Congo's tenuous peace accord there is every likelihood of a wider war.

The document was printed before HBOS told the City on Wednesday that it was not going to make a counteroffer, reducing the likelihood of a bidding war.

As Americans contemplate the likelihood of a broader war against terrorism, it might seem logical that military recruiters would change their sales pitch in order to tap into a surge of patriotic fervor.

And, if the United States unilaterally reduces the number of weapons in its arsenal, allies currently shielded under its "nuclear umbrella," like Japan and South Korea, will build their own nuclear weapons — greatly increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war.