Sentence examples for righteous war from inspiring English sources

Bruce Willis is perhaps the only star who could anchor this sort of righteous war melodrama.

A righteous war, caused by a seemingly unprovoked attack that kills multiple lives on our soil – later found to be in retaliation to an aggressively probing foreign policy?

And he borrowed as much from the New Testament, Ruskin, Thoreau, G. K. Chesterton, and Tolstoy (the polemical Christian rather than the novelist) as from the Bhagavad Gita, whose affirmation of righteous war he reinterpreted as a parable of nonviolence.

The warrior Arjuna travels to the Himalayas to perform penance and win a boon from the god Shiva that will help his brothers, the Pandavas, overcome their enemies in righteous war.

We could not have predicted, back in 2001-2, this this adventure would become the apotheosis of liberal interventionism, a good war, a righteous war, a New Labour war.

Also scrawled on the paper was the declaration, "We continue this righteous war," and an announcement of a "tactical meeting" for November in Vancouver, with an R.S.V.P. referencing a verse from the New Testament.

"These wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... aren't righteous wars," she said.

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, another Vietnam-era throwback skewering self-righteous war hawks.

However righteous a war or the arguments for war seemed for a time, the blood is on our hands, and an unrighteous war makes it very difficult to wash away.

In his 1996 collection Subhuman Redneck Poems, for example, "A Brief History" includes the lines:    "All of people's Australia, its churches and lore    are gang-raped by satire self-righteous as war    and, from trawling fresh victims to set on the poor,    our mandarins now, in one more evasion    of love and themselves, declare us Asian".

Whenever I see someone waging a self-righteous holy war, it gives me pause.