Sentence examples for off the war from inspiring English sources

But even though the south has now split off, the war is hardly over in Sudan.

He tells Formanek that he hopes to head off the war.

Disagreement over who owned what, in fact, set off the war in May 1998.

It was a dispute over this waterway between the two countries that set off the war.

I don't see how consumers are going to write off the war or write off the job problem".

The subsequent Battle of Bunker Hill is credited for uniting the colonies and kicking off the war of independence.

Chinese hackers called off the war the next day, claiming they had hacked 1,000 American Web sites.

There was an unsatisfied demand when the war ended and plenty of production capacity as factories turned off the war machine.

Perhaps war makes culture as much as culture makes war, and the farther off the war is the less we notice its effects.

In a period epitomized by Godard's "Breathless" (1960), striving young Europeans shook off the war-dimmed legacies of their national cultures for the confident flash of things American.

As soon as it had lost the war, the US imposed a trade embargo, cutting off the war-wrecked country not only from US exports and imports, but also from those of other nations that bowed to American pressure.