Sentence examples for round a war from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama replaced his top general in Afghanistan yesterday in an attempt to turn round a war that has been going badly for the US and to step up the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Take several diaries from warring courtiers round a literary king, weave them into the tale of a legacy, and it might just be box office.

Round 3. The fighters touch gloves and do a mini-embrace at the start of the round, after a war of words before the fight.

Both sides have been intensively preparing for what each says will be a "decisive" second round.Such a war would bear little resemblance to the previous clashes between Israel and its neighbours.

Last week, he fired the latest round in a war of words that had erupted a few weeks earlier between Microsoft on the one hand, and the backers of open-source and free software on the other.

Google's recent announcement of a collaborative spreadsheet application is a death knell for Microsoft Office in an opening round of a war that will see applications like spreadsheets, word processors and databases becoming free goods.

With the round, Acquia builds upon a war chest that already totaled $118 million as of 2014.

"Twitter's latest round update is clearly a war on Minecraft players everywhere," a Minecraft employee tweeted.

The closest Mr. Bowlus got to combat before retiring from the Army in 1998 was a round of war games, fought with weapons that fired only laser beams.

But in the debate over the next round of war -- a debate that is now, thank heaven, bursting into full flower -- it is worth considering what baggage the critics bring, especially when they wear the badge of statesman.

US President Obama will wait on the results of the election to announce the new US strategy in Afghanistan, though two options both with troop increases ranging from 10,000 to 40,000 were subject to a round of war games to project likely results and response by the Taliban and Afghan government conducted by the Pentagon this week.