Sentence examples for outset the war from inspiring English sources

From the outset, the war seems to have stirred his creativity.

From the outset, the war had little to do with drug crime and nearly everything to do with racial politics.

Indeed, from its outset the war devastated the Mitford family: on its first day, Nancy's Hitler-besotted sister Unity shot herself in the head.

At the outset, the war in eastern Congo was not about minerals, but was the result of an explosive combination of fallout from the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, the collapse of the regime of Mobutu in Congo (then known as Zaire) and simmering tensions over land and citizenship in eastern Congo.

Any claim of good intentions at the outset of the war seems like dangerous revisionism.

From the outset of the war, slaves had been pouring into Federal camps seeking safety and freedom.

According to the report, American forces began mistreating prisoners at the outset of the war in Afghanistan.

After greatly assisting in the capture of Bonn (1689) at the outset of the War of the Grand Alliance, Coehoorn fought in the Battle of Fleurus (1690).

Albert assumed leadership of the Belgian army at the outset of the war but was forced to retreat beyond the Yser River after the fall of Antwerp in October 1914.

At the outset of the war, the introduction of women into outposts like Warhorse raised fears not just of abuse or harassment, but also of sex and pregnancy.

Hindsight, which makes wise men of us all, tells me that mistakes were made in force levels at the outset of the war and in underestimating the insurgency.