Sentence examples for war around from inspiring English sources

After the ensuing war, around 5,000 Americans stayed on, mainly to enforce the "no-fly zone" over southern Iraq.

But let's not forget that many Democrats were hoping that the surge in Iraq would fail because if it succeeded in turning the war around, as it did, that might redound to President George W. Bush's credit.

The gap between supply and demand is fueled primarily by a Google and Facebook bidding war (around 12% of Facebookers used to work at Google).

Despite the Irish government's prohibition against participating in the war, around 600 Irishmen, followers of Irish political activist and Irish Republican Army leader Eoin O'Duffy, known as the "Irish Brigade", went to Spain to fight alongside Franco.

"(After the war) around 40% of the population were living on humanitarian aid.

At the time of the revolutionary war around 40m buffalo roamed the North American continent.

America always needs to demonize the enemy, so we personalized our war around Osama bin Laden.

If true, Mr. Bush would hardly be the first to have waged war around re-election.

But for me, there is something forever haunting about the throat, and the hand of war around it.

He added that the EU had reunited a continent "split by the cold war" around common values.

Finally the festival was home to another 1990s revival: the culture war around offensive hip-hop lyrics.