Sentence examples for unsuccessful war from inspiring English sources
In 2006 Israel went back into Lebanon, in a short, spasmodic and unsuccessful war against Hezbollah.
British policy was vacillating; determination to maintain imperial control ended in coercion, repression, and unsuccessful war.
Financing the increasingly expensive and unsuccessful war with France was a major preoccupation.
But a number of others say they cannot back an unsuccessful war indefinitely.
Ms. Benson is on the front lines of the Bloomberg administration's unsuccessful war against homelessness.
An unpopular, unsuccessful war with France, in which Spain was England's ally, lost Calais, England's last toehold in Europe.
In unsuccessful wars, a certain rot tends to set in.
Previous presidents of Georgia tried clumsily to quell rebellions in those areas and instead triggered dirty and unsuccessful wars.
But to be honest, what I expect in the next few years is the willful amnesia that always comes with the end of unsuccessful wars.
Previous leaders of Georgia's 5.2m people tried clumsily to quell rebellions in those areas and instead triggered dirty and unsuccessful wars.
Christian IV, (born April 12 , 1577 Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Den. died Feb. 28, 1648, Copenhagen), king of Denmark and Norway (1588 1648), who led two unsuccessful wars against Sweden and brought disaster upon his country by leading it into the Thirty Years' War.
