Sentence examples for sparked the war from inspiring English sources

Since then the territorial dispute that sparked the war has been "put to one side".

The accession of Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa (ruled 1740 80) sparked the War of the Austrian Succession.

Iran claims its plan is to retrieve territory and weaken both Western-backed rebels and extremist militias, and then to deal with the political crisis that sparked the war.

"Russians, Mongols, Turks, my bitches, best watch out cos my trigger finger itches," says Franz Josef to Serbian student Gavrilo Princip, who sparked the war by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Those moves — promising Mr. O'Brien "The Tonight Show" five years in the future and promising Mr. Leno his own nightly 10 p.m. spot to prevent him from competing in the "Tonight Show" slot elsewhere — not only sparked the war, but also kept the battles raging until the bitter end.

In 1865 the Colorados, aided by a Brazilian army, ousted the Blancos from power; however, the Paraguayan dictator, seeing that action as a threat to the regional balance of power, sparked the War of the Triple Alliance (1864/65 70), in which Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina combined to defeat Paraguay.

— pours into our political discourse, the concerns about social and economic differences that helped spark the War Between the States are as relevant as ever.

His sacking in 2013 sparked the civil war.

That attack sparked the current war in Chechnya.

These factors undoubtedly contributed to the unrest that sparked the civil war four years ago and today's migration emergency.

Franco's moral justification for the campaign that sparked the Civil War was that he was undertaking a religious crusade as Defender of the Faith.