Sentence examples for present day war from inspiring English sources

From the Romans to the present day, war is a great incubator for advancement, and the second world war was no exception.

Balko asks the same question but uses the backdrop of the war on drugs and the exceptions to the Constitution justified in its name to lead us to the present day war, not on drugs, but on people.

There is much in the film that finds an echo in the present day: warring Middle Eastern antagonists, oppressed peoples, irascible tyrants who think they are gods.

But when a noted medical historian casts his spotlight on the frightening scene -- one of the earliest authenticated records of a shark attack, now hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washington -- he sees "an amazingly miraculous incident," and beyond that, "an unavoidable parallel" with the present-day war against terrorism.

This study was designed to determine the microbial flora and bacterial quantification of present-day war wounds in US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan upon arrival at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC).

And that battle with the Soviet Empire for world order now seems quaint compared to the present-day war on terror.

Or is it that by the time they're as cheap as present day DVD players the "war" will truly be over?

In truth, jihad in our present day is not a war with guns or swords; it is a battle of tolerance.

Despite being the most removed from the present day, however, the first world war retains a unique position in the public psyche.

Slaughterhouse-Five tells the tale of Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist whose life flashes between the bombing of Dresden in World War II, present day, and the alien planet of Tralfamadore.

The World War, history to present day high school students, has scarcely hit its stride.