Sentence examples for prominent war from inspiring English sources
In 1940, he published "Blitzkrieg," the first of his many military histories, and earned good reviews from prominent war historians.
Georgy Zhukov, the most prominent war general, was appointed military commander of a provincial region, so that his glory would not interfere with Stalin's absolute power.
Even if she hadn't been a prominent war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn's place in our cultural lore would be secure because she was the one Hemingway wife who told dear Ernest what he could do with his macho posturing.
The sense of loss is commemorated in towns across the country, almost all of which have prominent war memorials; which is why the erection of such a memorial is a central event in the novel.
With that, Mr. Kiselyov introduced a report by a prominent war correspondent, formerly stationed in eastern Ukraine, who filed the latest in a series of dispatches suggesting that the valiant Syrian military could not win on its own.
EU accession talks were long held up by the fact the country's most prominent war crimes suspect, Gen Ante Gotovina, remained at large until his arrest in Spain in 2005.
In July British troops, with American backing, arrested one prominent war-crime suspect and killed another; in October NATO-led troops seized transmitters used for propaganda by Bosnian Serb television; and in November the force began disbanding sinister special police units within the Serb Republic.This more robust western action has also influenced the power struggle among Bosnia's Serbs.
To test Mines's conjecture, I reached out to five prominent Civil War historians this weekend.
A prominent Western war correspondent and a photojournalist were among the score of people killed in just one attack.
"Lauren didn't just want to win in the court of law but in the court of history," says James M. McPherson, a prominent Civil War historian at Princeton University.
John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, both prominent Vietnam War veterans, announced for the first time their support for allowing the use of force.
