Sentence examples for private wars from inspiring English sources

Privateers carried on private wars during times of public peace.

They might end up cannon fodder or unemployed, or fighting only private wars against the world.

Among neighbors, far from police eyes -- these are the private wars being waged.

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Robbed of the only role they were trained for and unable to find alternative work, they felt alienated under a black government and pursued private wars to put bread on the table.

Isn't it the case, he argued, that "each one of us being in the civil state as regards our fellow citizens, but in the state of nature as regards the rest of the world, we have taken all kinds of precautions against private wars only to kindle national wars a thousand times more terrible?

These donors are privatizing the American science frontier, mounting a "private war" on disease, amongst other grand initiatives.

For example, he decimated the Philistines in a private war.

In Catalonia they had the right to wage private war.

By the fall of 2001, Ailes was already fighting a private war.

Some observers suspect a link with that private war of left and right.