Sentence examples for rhetorical war from inspiring English sources

Conducting a rhetorical war against people smugglers ticks the boxes for politicians seeking populist appeal.

Neither President Bush's rhetorical "war" nor his actual, mistargeted one has accomplished that.

In the course of years, the struggle appeared to be a complex rhetorical war over money.

"The atmosphere has improved because the current government has at least stopped the rhetorical war against culture," said Mrs. Demeester.

With the pro-life moniker, anti-abortion forces, it seems, are winning the rhetorical war, if not the cultural one.

Democrats appear to have chosen to join the Republican right in waging rhetorical war — rather than rising above such tactics, as statesmen (and women) should.

"Harper Derangement Syndrome" was itself borrowed from the rhetorical wars of the Bush era, which made it an especially apt taunt, and one that highlighted Canada's comparable divisions.

• To the Editor: As a psychiatrist, I am painfully familiar with the rhetorical wars regarding what does or does not count as "a disease".

The Sri Lankan Civil War has several underlying causes: the ways in which modern ethnic identities have been made and remade since the colonial period, rhetorical wars over archaeological sites and place name etymologies, and the political use of the national past.

These are the so-called "welfare queens" Ronald Reagan loved to talk about on the campaign trail in southern cities with a history of racial terrorism, and while the right's leaders aren't quite that shameless anymore, they continue to dominate the rhetorical wars.

Hytner's intentions are clear from the start: to undercut the rhetorical glamour surrounding war.