Sentence examples for minor campaign from inspiring English sources

The uncontrollable influx of refugees who arrived in 1923 on the back of Greece's catastrophic Asia Minor campaign triggered the unseemly urban sprawl.

Karnezis, a Greek writing in English, has taken for the subject of his first novel the end of Greece's disastrous Asia Minor campaign.

The recent dust-up over a Democratic consultant's comment that Ann Romney, a stay-at-home mother, had never worked a day in her life initially seemed like a minor campaign skirmish.

Thus, online, we build the kind of detailed dossier on our lives and our thoughts that, in the past, would have taken a minor campaign of intelligence gathering to reveal.

During the summer of 1973, while Bush's staff was conducting an inquiry into the Lake of the Ozarks affair, Terry Dolan, promoting the Edgeworth cause, leaked to the Washington Post a tape recording in which Rove and another College Republican are heard recounting at a training weekend some amusing stories about minor campaign espionage they had engaged in during various campaigns.

"If every member of the U.S. Senate who had a minor campaign violation investigated by the Federal Election Commission or the Justice Department had to recuse themselves from voting on federal nominations, there would be very few senators voting," he said.

(Not until the late 20th century was the full extent of Calvert's role widely known.) In seven major and two minor campaigns between 1870 and 1890, Schliemann conducted excavations on a large scale mainly in the central area of the Hisarlık mound, where he exposed the remains of a walled citadel.

He followed his father into the armed service of the Counts of Perche and served in several minor campaigns against the English and routiers in Normandy.

He took part in several diplomatic missions and minor campaigns and was present at the great English victory in the naval Battle of Sluys in 1340.

Hyder died in 1782, and was succeeded by his son, Tippu Sultan, who continued the war through some minor campaigns until a peace treaty was signed in 1784.

After the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War, Henry took part in several diplomatic missions and minor campaigns and was present at the great English victory in the naval Battle of Sluys in 1340.