Sentence examples for stage for war from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hussein set the stage for war with Iran by repudiating a 1975 agreement that had settled a disputed over the Shatt al Arab, the strategic waterway along their border.
Gimbel's advertised willingness last week to sell any number of pairs of silk stockings to a customer, instead of limiting purchases as other stores did, set the stage for war of movement in the hosiery department of which we were witness one morning.
He showed a videotaped documentary stating that Slovenia's 1990 vote to secede, then German support of Croatia's independence in 1991 set the stage for war -- largely, he said, because it instilled fear in Serbs outside of Serbia with memories of the hundreds of thousands Serbs massacred by the Nazi-sanctioned Croatian Ustase movement in World War II.
In particular, Brazil has expressed the fear that expanding sanctions now will undermine the prospects of a diplomatic solution and therefore set the stage for war later.
Several factors set the stage for wars of independence.
If the Crimean War had set the stage for the wars of unification in Germany and Italy, and the Mexican War did so for the war of unification in the United States, then it's worth asking: if there had been no Crimean War, might there still have been an American Civil War? Probably so; civil wars by definition happen largely for internal reasons.
| Apple sets the stage for a war with Google.
And tsarist Russia, its Asian adventure a shambles, looked once again to the Balkans as a field for expansion, setting the stage for World War I.
However, when it became clear that the Bolsheviks did not hold a majority, Lenin disbanded the assembly, setting the stage for civil war.
Vietnam was still too raw for its director and for its audience".War, Inc" seems to have a million subtle ideas up its sleeve, including an intriguing feint towards explaining how September 11th set the stage for this war's brutality.
Instead the Geneva Accords divided the country into the communist north and US-backed south, setting the stage for another war that was to last until the defeat of the US and the Saigon government in 1975.
