Sentence examples for successive wars from inspiring English sources

The Black Sea ports of Potʿi and Batʿumi and areas of southwestern Georgia under Ottoman rule were taken by Russia in successive wars by 1877 78.

That momentum was reversed by successive wars — with Iran, from 1980 to 1988, and then the 1990 Gulf War and thirteen subsequent years of international economic sanctions.

When Mozambique emerged from two successive wars in 1992, its first priority was to convince investors that it was open for business.

That subjugation of the Caucasus would continue for another two centuries, culminating in the two successive wars waged by Yeltsin and Putin.

Successive wars have shown up a vast gap between the military capabilities of America and Europe, turning America into what France's former foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, calls a "hyperpower".

Only when Israelis came to feel an existential threat during successive wars with Arab neighbours did that change.In 1982, the education ministry made teaching about the Holocaust compulsory for all children.

Nor have successive war crimes trials deterred the commission of mass atrocities since 1945.

But, unlike the leaders of the Taliban, many of whom have come of age in a country that has been ravaged by successive war since the Russians invaded it in 1979, bin Laden is an educated man.

This has become more and more the case with each successive war we fight.

Her government's tacit support for Saddam Hussein's war against Iran led to successive Gulf wars and John Major's studied neutrality in Bosnia – which later pushed Tony Blair in the opposite direction, towards costly interventionism that overstretched MoD resources.

THE Rwandan genocide of 1994 killed 800,000 people, most of them ethnic Tutsi, in the space of three months and triggered two successive civil wars in neighbouring Congo.