Sentence examples similar to war beginnings from inspiring English sources

Today, Okura's museum houses old photos and memorabilia, chronicling the growth of the chain from its humble pre-war beginnings, to its Ray Kroc-helmed franchise explosion, to its current international sprawl.

His work in that area, which broadened into more general studies after the war, marks the beginnings of modern geochemistry.

But it was not until after the second world war that the beginnings of an explanation emerged.

With a novelistic sense of narrative and character, Mr. Finkel — the national enterprise editor of The Washington Post and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter — shows the fallout that the decision to invade Iraq and the war's "ruinous beginnings" would have on a group of individual soldiers, who, by various twists of fate, found themselves stationed in a hot spot on the edge of Baghdad.

The protagonists in these works, which have encompassed the mass protests that marked the war's revolutionary beginnings and the savage and elliptical fighting that characterizes it today, have mainly been demonstrators and freedom fighters, their stories playing out on a grand political stage and framed in ideological terms that would be sympathetic to Western and anti-Assad audiences.

Strachan said that some government lackeys believed it was only appropriate "to mark the ends of wars, but we don't mark the beginnings of wars".

Three more cover his impressions of World War II and its beginnings.

During the 1980's and 90's came the "fleabites," as Mr. Berman calls the initial attacks on American embassies, military installations and civilians that the United States "in its bovine stupidity" failed to see as the beginnings of war.

One of the most damaging (or effective, depending on one's national allegiance) spy networks of the Cold War era had its beginnings in the 1930s at the University of Cambridge, where a group of disaffected upper class young men were recruited to become Soviet agents.

So that Werther was more real than my younger brother, Macbeth filled my dreams and anxieties more than the beginnings of war in my town … With the advantage of being able to read in two languages, Arabic and French, I had the extraordinary luck of feeling like I belong to a family of people around the world, and also of all times!

After the beginnings of the war in Europe, political activism in opposition to war and working for alternatives to war became, for some women, their primary occupation.