Sentence examples for made war on from inspiring English sources

And, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has pointed out, Muslim nations have often made war on one another during Ramadan.

From 1989 to 1996, those commanders and their political chiefs made war on one another to win dominion over their nation, their province, their city, their village, or a crossroads in a wasteland.

For more than 1,500 years, the nations of Europe had regularly made war on one another ― the French vs. the British, the Germans vs. the French, the Austrians vs. the French, the Russians vs. the Germans, and so on.

In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which "made war on Hel our queen" (Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara).

He hasn't made war on anybody.

Having made war on the Government, they were subject to the incidents and calamities of war".

In his testimony, Rupert Murdoch quoted former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as saying he would "make war" on Murdoch companies after the tabloids switched to the Conservatives in late 2009.

During that time, the work in my family was more abstract: loving, playing, making war on one another.

We act out these fears, Drewermann says, by making war on one another.

The United Nations, far from being made credible, is being made the servant of wealthy nations making war on poor ones.

How does one make war on the people who put him in power?