Sentence examples for observed war from inspiring English sources
As Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman observed, war is hell.
Robert Jervis, a Columbia University political scientist, who studies the origins of war, once observed, "War is most likely if you overestimate others' hostility but underestimate their capabilities".
If, as has been observed, war is too important to leave to the generals, it is also true that literature should not be left to professors who compose long reviews but never trouble to mention what is in the book.
Last year, for example, they sought to hush radicals trying to intimidate Muslims who observed war commemorations with statistical reports about the role that Muslims have played in wars of the past.
During a discussion on the PBS News Hour, Michael Nance, a former instructor of Navy Seals who trained them to endure torture, observed: "War crimes trials have been carried out during World War II for people who actually conducted waterboarding.
If you're seeking lighter relief, you won't find it in A War (StudioCanal, 15), Danish director Tobias Lindholm's excellent investigation of an Afghanistan war commander on trial for accidental civilian fatalities – braided with a keenly observed war-at-home study of his wife's domestic exhaustion.
As Arnold Toynbee once observed, "wars are exhilarating when fought elsewhere and by other people".
As Naomi later observes, war itself becomes "a machine to make us true sisters".
Twenty-five years later, the Civil War reentered his life when he observed Civil War "reenactors" on the set of a TV documentary being filmed outside of his house in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
"It is often said," Sumner observed, "that war will make an end of Slavery.
All who lived through Vietnam are part of the tragedy, whether we fought, or opposed, or quietly observed the war from a safe distance.
