Sentence examples for prolonged wars from inspiring English sources

Prolonged wars left the country devastated, and many farms were unoccupied.

The prolonged wars had also revealed the need to tighten the administration of the loosely run and widely scattered elements of the British Empire.

After prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are weary of getting involved in another conflict without a clear path to peace – and so is Obama, who six years ago was elected in part because he opposed invading Iraq.

Tony Blinken, the deputy national security adviser in the White House, told Fox News Sunday the air campaign in Syria and Iraq was totally different to the prolonged wars of the past decade.

The prolonged wars with the Persians and other peoples provided many slaves, but the majority of slaves were acquired through regular trade with non-Greek peoples around the Aegean.

The prolonged wars and especially the Spanish rebellion made Fouché doubt the solidity of the empire, and from 1807 he began to intrigue, mainly with the royalists and with England.

I released the papers because I foresaw prolonged war and eventual escalation, including incursions into Laos and Cambodia, the mining of Haiphong and the bombing of Hanoi.

In Angola, the Unita army continues to fuel a prolonged war with diamonds, although the guerrillas have suffered severe setbacks in recent years.

should we be bracing ourselves for an amplified & prolonged war of attrition waged by #egypt's deep state apparatus to ensure #morsi fails?

Affected populations may experience defined periods of violence (weeks to months), ongoing or recurrent insecurity in a protracted conflict (years to decades), or long-term consequences of a previous (usually prolonged) war.

Serious talk about war crimes trials, they argue, can prolong wars and thwart postwar efforts to build peace.