Sentence examples for sizeable war from inspiring English sources

In the time before Europeans, or "long taim bifo", prior to a Highlands war raid the village big man would "make ropes", creating a network of social obligations (via pigs and weddings) to ensure a sizeable war party.

The squeeze, which coincided with a period of strong growth, gave the Treasury a sizeable war chest, and this was used to boost spending in the public sector when the global economy turned down.

On the assumption that the economy grows steadily at around 2.5% a year, the Treasury is now expecting a £10bn surplus in the final year of the parliament – a sizeable war chest for the 2020 election.

As reported in the Guardian in September, the club have made a sizeable war chest available to Van Gaal should he wish to move in January – but the 63-year-old is encouraged by the progress of the squad as it stands, so any recruitment after Christmas is now being viewed as unlikely.

It was by no means an actual watershed moment for the British population – the country already had a sizeable post-war black population – but it held significant value in the public imagination.

One City trader, who declined to be named, admitted that he and his sizeable team were running through "war games" exercises on a "weekend scenario": massive default on a Friday, then making the phantom trades on Saturday and Sunday that would let them come out on top.

In 1988 it was mostly professional and had recent experience of waging war against Myanmar's sizeable ethnic-minority militias.

To respond by bombing and shelling targets in the full knowledge that this will result in sizeable civilian casualties is equally a war crime, and has now been denounced as such by Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Unloading hundreds of lorries in just a few hours in a war-battered region is a sizeable task.

America has maintained a sizeable military presence there since the last Gulf war, in 1991.

New mortgage lending has been buoyed by Funding for Lending, launched in August 2012, which has led to a price war on loans for borrowers with sizeable amounts of equity, and finally seems to have persuaded lenders to offer more loans at high loan to values (LTVs).