Sentence examples for minor wars from inspiring English sources
"The periods of steady advance — 1954 to 1968 and 1982 to 2000 — featured better economic policies and minor wars.
Since World War II, the United States has engaged in an almost unbroken chain of major and minor wars in distant and poorly understood countries.
Even taking into account major and minor wars, military spending increased by 10 to 15percentt every year but one from 1975 to 1985.
Doris had some importance because it commanded the road from Heraclea in Trachis to Amphissa, but its history is mainly made up of minor wars with its equally petty neighbours.
It seems that I've accidentally started a minor war in Berlin's expat community.
His personal expenditure, excessive though it was, meant less to Rome than the cost of even a minor war".
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The Sufis refer to mujāhadah as al-jihād al-akbar (the greater war) in contrast to al-jihād al-aṣghar (the minor war), which is waged against unbelievers.
The line set off a series of edits and deletions, along with a minor war on the discussion page of Gaiman's entry.
The only feature film the Reagans appeared in together was a minor war film, Hellcats of the Navy (1957), he as a submarine commander, she as a nurse.
And all of a sudden — even as I chuckled at the canned suspense — it hit me: the simple brilliance of "The Star Spangled Banner". Why a hard-to-sing memento of a minor war succeeds as our national anthem.
