The ongoing wars had cost a great deal of money, and the debt had risen to an astonishing degree.
In a time of ongoing wars and other dangers, reductions cannot safely be applied across the board.
But 20 of them could not be sent back because of ongoing wars or fears of inhumane treatment.
He also set for his goals in America's two ongoing wars a responsible withdrawal from Iraq and a "hard-earned peace" in Afghanistan — not victory.
Of all our country's ongoing wars — poverty, cancer, Iraq, Afghanistan — none is a more comprehensive disaster than the war on drugs.
Not to mention the brutal attack on the Charlie Hebdo office, the ongoing wars and conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and the devastating situation of refugees.
President Clinton, he says, "was flying Al Qaeda and Hezbollah operatives to Bosnia to support the U.S. side in the ongoing wars".
When you've got failing banks and corporate giants, two ongoing wars, melting icecaps and mountainous health care costs, it's hard to see what gets pushed to the margins.
The shared origins of the two hatreds means that, in the context of the ongoing wars in the Middle East, Islamophobic conspiracies can easily supplant traditional antisemitic rhetoric.
George Packer has a post about the Times's slide show of photographs of the bedrooms of young soldiers killed in our ongoing wars, kept as they left them.
There were, naturally, also other things of note in 2008: Russia's increasingly assertive foreign policy, hurricanes, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, upheaval in Pakistan and so on.
