Sentence examples for threshold of war from inspiring English sources

His war was a slogging time of loading and unloading, plodding the same saltwater trails to deliver men and materiel from England to the threshold of war at the French beaches and channel ports -- a time of never-dry clothing and repetitive work, always redolent of fuel oil, stale sweat and tobacco smoke, and punctuated by occasional combat from D-Day on, as well as by savagely bad weather at sea.

The plot certainly complicates the president's narrative that the terrorist threat, while still potent, can be managed at a level of vigilance below the threshold of war.

"And I see it in this dangerous confrontation with Iran, where people speak to the inevitability of war, and then create circumstances that put us at the threshold of war".

The conflict had at this time, according to established definitions, reached the threshold of civil war.

"In October of 1962 the missile crisis arose, 13 days that pushed us to the very threshold of nuclear war," Kerry said.

Moncho is a sensitive, observant boy living in a Galician town in the summer of 1936, when Republican Spain was on the threshold of civil war.

The threshold for war should always be high.

Drones are part of a post-heroic age, he said, and in his view it is not a always a problem if they lower the threshold for war.

Burundi is feared to be on the threshold of another civil war.

In case you've forgotten, Magoo first appeared in 1949, at the threshold of the cold war, a weak, bumbling, stumbling character, bullied and pushed around by the more powerful figures around him.

Every guy he knew had a different threshold for the terrible stuff of war, and that was vexing to Mr. Dubay at first.