Sentence examples for transform a war from inspiring English sources

The imminent arrival of American arms and men promised to transform a war now in its third year, and to bring enormous resources to bear on the Western Front.

They powered the "miracle on the Han river" which transformed a war-torn backwater into a comfortable middle-income country.

Afghan and American officials had for years promoted Kabul Bank as a prime example of how Western-style banking was transforming a war-ravaged economy.

First as minister for Trade and Industry, then as Minister of the Treasury, the post equivalent to Chancellor of the Exchequer which Colombo held for seven straight years, he was an architect of the miracolo economico that transformed a war-shattered country into the world's seventh-largest industrial power, and the oft-derided lira into a notably stable currency.

There are some who may be misled and inspired to act in what all extremists, from East, West, North and South, want to transform into a "war of civilizations".

Precisely because he refused to accept that conflict is inevitable or that social harmony is a hopelessly Pollyannaish goal, Mandela eventually managed to transform a country barreling toward civil war into a democracy.

That gave way to the growing, terrible awareness that the concert had transformed into a war zone.

As the instability of global capitalism accelerates, the 'war on terror' is increasingly transforming into a war on dissent – a war on everyone who either opposes global capitalism in its current form, or is marginalised by it.

Suddenly a long-simmering standoff with the Islamist groups holding the north had been transformed into a war involving French forces, precisely the kind of event the West hoped to avoid.

On the first full day after the school was transformed into a war zone, this idyllic suburb north of Fort Lauderdale grappled with a massacre that added its name to the ever-growing roster of places synonymous with tragedies in public spaces: Columbine.

Free agency has transformed into a war of attrition.