Sentence examples for spectacular war from inspiring English sources
Britain's and France's willingness to accept the cession of the Sudetenland areas to Germany presented Hitler with the choice between substantial gains by peaceful agreement or by a spectacular war against Czechoslovakia.
In the spectacular war episode, hundreds of arrows are hurled through the air in choreographed motion; flags fly down from the mountain tops; armies are poised high on the rocks, their primitive weapons ready for the kill.
A friend who loves the new, dazzlingly aerated style says we have entered an age of "visual rapture".... ..X-Men" combines the fear of aliens invading and replacing us (an old sci-fi trope) with a spectacular war of the gods.... ..X-Men
Alas, this half-admiration doesn't extend to the recent saga in which a) they rolled their own crypto; b) MIT and BU researchers found a flaw in it; c) IOTA first said that the flaw was intentional, and then, apparently, that it was created by an imperfect AI ; d) a spectacular war of words (between those parties and several others) erupted.
Whether seeming eccentricities like declaring war on bats or allowing councils to opt out of water fluoridation, or the more serious and even spectacular wars on bikies, doctors and the judiciary, the Newman government pushed a lot of envelopes that would remain sealed in other states.
We would be smart to focus on that larger equation rather than on the narrower if spectacular "water wars" hypothesis.
A couple million animals migrate through the Serengeti in Tanzania every year in what is believed to be the largest animal migration on earth (South Sudan's massive animal migration is also spectacular, but war dampens tourism there).
Nobody in Germany today has any doubt that southern and western Germany's spectacular post-war comeback economically, politically and historically-will be of a permanent nature.
Lawyers for the Tate pored over the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act before artist Mark Wallinger recreated a spectacular anti-war protest from Parliament Square, filling the stately Duveen galleries which mostly lie within the exclusion zone banning such demonstrations.
The show also debuts a scientific triumph: the 3-D mapping of the Orion nebula from Hubble telescope data, allowing a spectacular Star Wars-like fly-through of that distant star grouping.
Some spectacular bidding wars could make headlines when IPO-fueled buyers compete for homes against each other, but they will most often be competing with everyday buyers, and while they may have more resources to bring to bear, they won't be eager to spend more than they must.
