Sentence examples for the war achieved from inspiring English sources

The war achieved its immediate objectives.

It was remarkable how Jack went from leaving St Patrick's elementary school on his 14th birthday to doing heavy labour at a copper smelting furnace to then, after the war, achieving a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and going on to become the first working-class president of the Cambridge Union, in 1951.

But it wasn't until the past few days that the movement to end the drug war achieved the mark of every mainstream political cause in America a bunch of celebrities attached their names to it.

But it wasn't until the past few days that the movement to end the drug war achieved the mark of every mainstream political cause in America – a bunch of celebrities attached their names to it.

Though the Iraq war achieved little aside from increasing the influence of Iran, occupying the country has been ruinously expensive.

Moreover, Obama's advisers argue, the drone war achieved this while inflicting few civilian casualties.

The Gulf war achieved most of Mr Bush's announced goals: Kuwait was liberated, aggression was punished, oil reserves were kept out of hostile hands.

The first gulf war achieved America's goals, but the people of Iraq paid the price for that success.

The abandonment of the idea that all participants in a war among states are equally legitimate belligerents, Schmitt concludes, inevitably undercuts the containment of war achieved in ius publicum Europaeum (PB 286 90).

The Arabs had won the intelligence war, achieving full surprise and gaining the initiative on the battlefield.

A psychological return from war, achieved by confronting the past.