Sentence examples for peculiar war from inspiring English sources

Such are the tactics and considerations of this peculiar war.

The Taliban gained control of Afghanistan in the first place largely thanks to their financial clout: where they are losing ground now, the reason is often that they are being outbid, one way or another, for local commanders' loyalties.What may be the most important battle in this peculiar war is almost unseen by outsiders.

These are peculiar wars in that the impact on the warriors inevitably is profound, while the effect of the wars on most other Americans is minimal.

A great shame the BBC didn't invite David Cox along, whose article yesterday went some way to supporting readers' right to respond, restoring perspective and balance to a discussion that was turning into a very peculiar flame war: established media versus their own audience.

As the effort begins, the Halo trust is turning up problems peculiar to this war.

The violence of British football hooligans, for example, reflects a peculiar nostalgia for war.

He recognized the irony of the peculiar contrast between war and peace and the context of Saturday's middleweight championship fight at the Garden.

Like many American children of the same era, Weldon found the remote war peculiar, "rather like a lot of playground games except people got killed," but at the end of it, the family had a Dickensian change of fortune.

The circumstances peculiar to this war — the technological innovations that allow the fighting to be shown in real time, and that enable the soldiers to send video e-mails to their loved ones back home — are duly noted in the pilot, usually with a twist.

These results are not tied to conditions peculiar to pre-War Italy: the new estimates presented here pave the way for emending, or at least reevaluating, the engineering-industry product series reconstructed for other times or places.

The culture wars peculiar to the second half of the twentieth century are intimately connected to the rise of this policing Christian religious culture obsessed with the dangers of popular entertainment and purging it of its evils.