Sentence examples for preferred the war from inspiring English sources

But I much preferred the war zone.

"We would prefer the war criminal Laszlo Csatary to be extradited to Slovakia," Kollarova said.

In truth, most Turks prefer the war with Syria to stay one of words.

"The one who initiated this war has the power to stop it, but he continues to prefer the war of terrorism".

He also acknowledged that as a child he had actually preferred the Star Wars movies.

But staring at the Likud bench, he charged that many of his mainstream critics preferred the prospect of war to the possibility of reconciliation with the Arabs.

While the latter had grown significantly during the peaceful years of aristocratic imperial rule, they suffered for centuries during the medieval period when warrior regimes preferred the arts of war as a means to power over the Confucian foundations of moral virtue and ritual refinement.

Whether you were for or against this war, whether you preferred that the war be done with the U.N.'s approval or without it, you have to feel good that right has triumphed over wrong.

The historical precedent that these reëxaminations suggest is not, as the President would prefer, the Second World War but the Tonkin Gulf affair of 1964, when an alarmist report of an unconfirmed attack against an American warship in the South China Sea served Lyndon Johnson's White House as a pretext for an escalation of the Vietnam War.

A relic of the sickbay rather than the battlefield, it prefers the guts of war to the glory, lamenting the wounded on both sides with Hippocratic impartiality.

Even the Pentagon's website for the war prefers the relatively antiseptic term "Targeted Operations Against [Isis] Terrorists".