Sentence examples for test of war from inspiring English sources

In everything al-Baghdadi has said and done since he became leader of al-Qa'ida in Iraq in 2010 there is a will to put everything to the test of war.

Moreover, the AIF's performance was often seen as proof that the character of Australians had passed the test of war.

Few can deny that its rugged durability withstands the tests of war: Bury it in an Iraqi desert for 20 years, and it'll still fire when you dig it up.

With the abolition of universal conscription, the test case of war, and hence the absolute claim to sacrifice one's life for the wellbeing of the nation, has luckily lost its force.

Is it also a test of our war that, after this season of pressure and momentum-stopping, one way or the other, more civilians are dead?

He added, "What can we do to stop missiles tests short of war, or imposing sanctions on a par with those that preceded the nuclear deal?" Despite the tough words from Flynn, the United States has not deployed new forces in response to either the Iranian test or the Houthi attack, the Defense Department spokesman Christopher Sherwood said.

State media reported on missile tests, part of war games that analysts say are a warning to Assad's foes.

As the Army and the Navy maneuvered for control of the tests, Assistant Secretary of War Howard C. Peterson observed, "To the public, the test looms as one in which the future of the Navy is at stake ... if the Navy withstands [the tests] better than the public imagines it will, in the public mind the Navy will have 'won.

It finds no assessment was made by Blair of the views of the UN weapons inspectors or the degree of cooperation by Saddam, even though Goldsmith had set this as the test of whether the war was to be lawful.

For Powell's Republican critics inside and outside the administration, Iraq remains the nagging test of whether this war should or will be fought on his terms, and it is a battle postponed rather than resolved.

"Where once politicians who were considering matters of life and death might have been thought to be helped in their decision-making by Christian thinking – by reflecting on the tradition of Augustine and Aquinas, by applying the subtle tests of just-war doctrine – now Christianity means the banal morality of the fairy tale and genuflection before a sky pixie's simplicities," writes Gove.