Sentence examples for order a campaign from inspiring English sources

And he has seized on the emotional issue of racial discrimination left over from colonial days -- in this case, unfair patterns of land distribution -- as a pretext to order a campaign of bloody intimidation of his principal opponents.

In the wake of failed international efforts to mediate the conflict and in response to a major Serbian military offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization retaliated in March 1999 with a bombing campaign, prompting Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević to order a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" that made refugees of hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians.

It was a Socialist prime minister, Guy Mollet, who in 1956 ordered a campaign of "pacification" against Algeria's nationalists.

A declassified report concluded that Putin ordered a campaign of covert operations, from defamatory "fake news" articles about Clinton to the hack itself.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev saw in the mid-1980's that alcoholism was destroying the Soviet economy, and he ordered a campaign to discourage drinking.

Correction: February 21 , 2001 Wednesday Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about secret recordings in which Ukraine's president, Leonid D. Kuchma, indicated that he had ordered a campaign of intimidation to win re-election misattributed a quotation.

In 1666, she writes, after the great fire of London, so many crows descended on the victims that Charles II ordered a campaign against them to calm a horrified populace.

In 638, Emperor Taizong ordered a campaign led by general Hou Junji to invade Gaochang.

Lithuania agreed to cede Samogitia and assist the Teutonic Order in a campaign to seize Pskov, while the Order agreed to assist Lithuania in a campaign to seize Novgorod.

While 100,000 buttons is a sizable order for a campaign -- and Slater can produce it in three days -- Burger King routinely orders 1,000 buttons to give away at each of their 3,500 stores, or 3.5 million.

Trump also referred to the executive order as a campaign promise that had been kept.