Sentence examples for tragic war from inspiring English sources

We must always remember that this brutal and tragic war laid the hand of death on every country in Europe.

How could someone employing so many pollsters fail to gauge America's regretful impatience with this tragic war?

George W. Bush won a controversial race in 2000 and was reëlected in 2004 — but his Presidency is largely remembered for an economic collapse and a tragic war.

HENDRIK E. SADI Yonkers, March 20 , 2013To the Editor: I would propose a significant addition to both the apportionment of blame and the quantifying of costs for the tragic war in Iraq.

That tragic war has rightly raised the standards of proof that Obama must meet to credibly propose military action in the Middle East, particularly if the casus belli concerns unconventional arms.

"Your prosecutor has already proclaimed my sentence and judgment," he said in his opening statement, claiming that the court is part of an international effort to turn him into a symbolic scapegoat for a tragic war.

Another tragic war-related incident happened during the capture of Tripoli (now in Lebanon) by the Crusaders in 1102.

For someone who lived so briefly, Hastings took away more than his share of personal suffering from our tragic wars.

The ill-advised and tragic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to extract a heavy toll, and though opposition to those wars helped propel Barack Obama into office, the focus on ending them and preventing new ones has been blurred by the government's ongoing crusade, the so-called War on Terror.

This is the not the unhappy consequence of two tragic wars -- in Iraq and Afghanistan -- which the military realized could not be won by bombs alone.

Following the Islamic revolution in 1979, Washington turned to Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a counterweight to the Khomeini regime, offering military support for Hussein's invasion of Iran and setting the stage for the tragic wars of 1991 and 2003.