Sentence examples for precipitating war from inspiring English sources

In April of that year, The New York Times reported that a West Side Republican Club member identified as Bertha Welby had given an address in the hall praising President William McKinley, a Republican, for "the cool and rational way in which he has avoided precipitating war until the plans of the country were thoroughly and well advanced".

An expedition under Sir James Gambier in July 1807 had captured most of the Danish Navy at the Battle of Copenhagen, in response to fears that it might fall into Napoleon's hands, but precipitating war with the Danes.

Democracy is now spreading at the expense of liberty by feeding ethnic hatreds, precipitating wars or undermining the institutions of liberty.

That agreement precipitated war between Poland and Russia.

Eventually the Aetolians, as part of their scheme to precipitate war between Rome and Antiochus III of Syria, murdered Nabis and temporarily occupied Sparta.

Resenting the threat of the Duke of Alba's Spanish army in the Netherlands, Cecil nearly precipitated war in December 1568 by instigating the seizure of ships carrying bullion to Alba, who retaliated by closing Antwerp to English trade.

Uzun Ḥasan's support of the Karamanids, however, precipitated war (1472) with the Ottomans (August 1473), who decisively defeated the Ak Koyunlu at the Battle of Terjan and thus emerged supreme in Anatolia.

Just two days before Frederick died, a joint constitution for Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig was ratified by the Rigsråd, a decision that precipitated war with the German powers in 1864.

I worry that he walks into a situation where he thinks he's being smart, then blunders himself into a corner where the only recourse to get out without looking like an idiot is to use nuclear weapons or go to war, or precipitate a war.

Were it thought to be precipitating a war with Israel, it might lose them.

The Austro-Hungarian government used this incident as a pretext for mobilizing against Serbia, thus precipitating World War I.