Sentence examples for specter of war from inspiring English sources

Detective Andrews's funeral was shadowed, though not overshadowed, by the specter of war.

Superman, for example, arrived in 1938, with the specter of war looming over Europe.

The perennial specter of war with Britain reared up as late as the 1890s, as the historian Evan Thomas recounts below.

The fighting returned the specter of war to Libya and led to protests across the country and calls by the United Nations for restraint.

And those winners would include the nations they represent, who keep steadily moving away from the specter of war, despite hardliners' efforts in both countries.

Mr. Bush has nothing to lose by once again using the specter of war to pillory the Democrats as soft on national security.

The slender, cheerful woman, often called the "country's memory," represented an elegant thread between the days the world watched the meaningful glances, dalliances and marriages of European royalty like a sport, and the 20th-century specters of war and revolution.

Instead of a head-to-head confrontation, they are raising the specter of guerrilla war.

In addition, the rebellious stance of the French officer corps raised the specter of civil war in France.

But they would soon find other matters preoccupying them, as the country became consumed with the specter of impending war.

Fernando Cabrera, a Bronx councilman who is also a pastor, veered toward an ominous side of this debate, raising the specter of "class war" at a Council hearing last week.