Sentence examples for sought war from inspiring English sources
Democratic-Republican leaders in Congress, believing Adams had exaggerated the French position because he sought war, united with hawkish Federalists to demand the release of the commissioners' dispatches.
Although much of the nation had sought war with Catholic France, Charles had secretly negotiated with Louis XIV, trying to reach an agreement under which England would remain neutral in return for money.
The lead Italian prosecutor, Marco De Paolis, said in an interview that until the 1990's, the government seldom sought war-crimes charges against former Nazis.
One may conclude that he did not seek war.
His country did not seek war, he stressed.
We do not seek war, but neither do we shrink from it.
"We are not seeking war," he added, but offered no specifics or timing.
Our country values life and never seeks war unless it is essential to security and to justice.
"I don't think the North would seek war by intention, but war by accident, something spiralling out of control, has always been my fear".
The book depicts the secretary as having won over the president with his plea to pursue diplomacy on Iraq and to seek war only as a last resort.
From residents of a deeply conservative Cairo neighborhood to visitors at a memorial to the last major war between Egypt and Israel, almost no one was seeking war, no matter how strongly they condemned Israel.
