Sentence examples for propensity for war from inspiring English sources
This is a maxim that has been used to illuminate humanity's propensity for war, but it is also an accurate reflection of many veterans' experiences.
But what lesson has Australia's involvement really taught us about our propensity for war, about the fabric of our country, about the willingness of our successive governments to commit to war behind imperial allies?
Her full-length debut is an attempt to marry Darwin's theory of evolution to the male propensity for war, suggesting that the violence in our society, from rape to genital mutilation, is a consequence of our preprogrammed need to ensure the survival of the fittest.
All the leading heads of state, intellectuals, artists, and scholars have been convinced for some time now that only a slender allegiance by all states to a superior governing body could relieve current economic difficulties, reduce the propensity for war and eliminate anxieties aroused by the threat of conflict, which are themselves one of the primary causes of the economic crisis.
Because the new states required huge amounts of manual work to irrigate the cereal crops, they also required forms of forced labor, including slavery; because the easiest way to find slaves was to capture them, the states had a new propensity for waging war.
And last, but certainly not least, violence in the home is the surest predictor of violence at the state level, a tolerance for such violence reflecting a propensity for militarization and war.
His windsurfing, hair mousse, propensity for polling, position on the war and Vietnam record were all essentially similar codes for an identical accusation: this man will not lead; he will say what he thinks you want to hear.
All of human history demonstrated the propensity of the executive to inflate danger or otherwise concoct justifications for war to aggrandize power or to settle personal vendettas.
It has often been foreign writers and thinkers who have brought the French into confrontation with the moral ambiguities of their World War II past, their propensity for forgetfulness and myth.
