Sentence examples for superfluous war from inspiring English sources

The current White House is drawing down from Iraq, it's leading to success in the War on Terror, successes the previoud administration could have had themselves but passed on to fight a superfluous war, which largely appeased terrorists.

"But these kinds of war-is-war arguments are superfluous unless the public knows what war is".

To Obama's credit, his current defense budget reduces a U.S. Army bloated to fight such superfluous long land wars.

Once the discussion is cast in terms of such moral absolutes, the evidence is that any potential wider costs of the death penalty are as superfluous as "collateral damage" in a war.

In the mid-1980s it was shut down fairly rapidly when cold-war changes rendered it superfluous.

But war, and pestilence, disease, and dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth.

(IV 63 66) But war, and pestilence, disease, and dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth (IV 373 374).

Death was no longer to be considered part of life, instead "total war" waged against it, family care and ritual deemed superfluous.

The comic-book panels by Eric Shanower (who has previously created a graphic-novel retelling of the entire Trojan War story) are again neat in their own right, but mostly superfluous.

In railing at President Obama's "out-of-control" spending, Republicans conveniently forget it was his predecessor, George W. Bush, who in waging war in Iraq and granting tax cuts to the rich -- so much superfluous waste!

It is no coincidence that this federalism revival flourished in a post-cold-war atmosphere of tranquility, when it was easy to regard the federal government as superfluous at best.