Sentence examples for speck of war from inspiring English sources
Maddow cites Thomas Jefferson, in a presidential message to Congress: "Were armies to be raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon, we never should have been without them".
In defiance of war and the death that follows, this ugly thing sprung two new leaves green specks of life on the naked branches that defy man's destruction.
If we ever hope to reach that distant speck of hope in the night sky that we call peace, then first we must develop a mathematical understanding of war.
The song is about the war that Thatcher fought in the Falkland Islands, a distant speck of empire over which nine hundred lives were lost, and about the decline of the British manufacturing industry, which devastated so many more.
The birds occasionally visit remote Hawaiian islands, especially Midway Atoll, a speck of land more than 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu where the legendary World War II battle unfolded.
Every foreigner who has set foot in the war zones of Burma comes with their own narrative or speck of narrative that expands, during their time here, into hundreds of different mythologies.
After World War II, he says, the Village enjoyed a renaissance, when it "served again as a tiny speck of American real estate where nonconformists, individualists, bohemians, progressives, avant-gardists, experimenters, gays and lesbians could gather and feel at home".
So, a speck of reassurance.
Not a speck of dust anywhere.
