Sentence examples for placed war from inspiring English sources

When delegates from 131 nations met in Rome to establish the court in 1998, their original draft placed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide under its jurisdiction.

In the west, Tolstoy is generally rated as the greatest literary novelist: last July, Newsweek placed War and Peace at the top of its meta-list of 100 great novels.

Indeed, the EU exists because Europeans decided to place war firmly in the past and elevate the common interest over national goals.

Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion.

Military theorists from an earlier age sought to place war firmly in its political context.

The Constitution places war-making authority under the responsibility of Congress.

The war places way down the list of pressing issues in every poll.

In its place: War in Syria!

"In a lot of places, war is an abstraction," Mayor Tom Ratcliffe said.

For Latin Americans, it was the United States' support for Augusto Pinochet's coup in Chile (and now its stomp-all-over-the-place war on drugs).

Here as in other places, war made women the spoils of conquest, not unlike sacks of rice and four-wheel-drive vehicles.