Sentence examples for war achieved from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Over the past quarter century, neocons and military-industrialists have vanquished Vietnam Syndrome and the public opposition to war, achieving the solidification of endless war.

A few of these wars achieved their aims, albeit at a cost in lives and treasure; others went sideways or turned into disasters, as in Libya, where Obama's intervention has been followed by six years of chaos, civil war, and the rise of a branch of ISIS.

If the invasion of Iraq was a preemptive war or a preventive war, it achieved its objectives the day the inspectors began to inspect "without conditions".