Sentence examples for personal wars from inspiring English sources

Not just of their lives — as if their lives weren't enough — but of personal wars.

Indeed, the plural "wars" of the title refers not to Iraq (barely mentioned by Mr Woodward except as a model for a strategy in Afghanistan) but to a combination of the Afghanistan conflict, and the intense policy and personal wars among his top advisers.

He may not win any prizes for objectivity, balance or great originality as he rips exuberantly into a culture where artworks are investments, tax write-offs, ploys in divorce settlements, triumphalist trophies, corporate booty, or even weapons in personal wars; but his play has satiric punch.

And he said that although he was disappointed by Mr O'Flynn's remarks, people were merely "letting off steam and... fighting personal wars" after a high-pressured election campaign.

Mandela himself offered a glimpse into his personal war.

His personal war on good taste began precociously early.

"There is no personal war," Ovechkin told Russian reporters on Tuesday when asked about Crosby.

"A Personal War," a multimedia piece about the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

The Thessalians and Greek allies were sent home; henceforward he was waging a purely personal war.

Eventually their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting merge tragically.

But before you start waging your own personal war on single-celled organisms, be warned.