Sentence examples for pay wars from inspiring English sources

If pay is the only measure of respect, it's unsurprising that pay wars break out.

We don't buy war bonds or pay war taxes anymore.

At this time Ohlin became engaged in a controversy with John Maynard Keynes, contradicting the latter's view that Germany could not pay war reparations.

His staunchest acts of protest, which he performed politely, were refusing to pay war taxes during the French and Indian War and compensating other Quakers' slaves for their work.

Perhaps the worst of the policy errors during the post-World War I period was the insistence of the Allies that Germany pay war reparations — reparations that went far beyond anything that the defeated Germans could afford.

Hungary agreed to pay war reparations approximating US$300 million to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia and to support Soviet garrisons.

As noted above, the Weimar Republic was beset with economic problems, stemming from being required to pay war reparations in gold-backed German marks, while Kaiser Wilhelm had removed the gold standard in 1914.

They also planned to seize the governors' control over state finances that paid war-related bills.

After World War II the country was left with the task of absorbing about 300,000 refugees from the areas ceded to the Soviet Union and at the same time paying war reparations.

They carved out a strong foothold in South-East Asia, beginning when Japan paid war reparations in the form of new equipment and factories that trading houses helped to supply or build.

Peasants whose crops are threatened turn to the Taliban for protection, willingly paying war taxes to safeguard their meager livelihood.