Sentence examples for war capital from inspiring English sources

The city still benefits from its time as the cold war capital.

During the second world war capital could not flee, and governments controlled prices and could appeal to patriotism.

These were fine assets for a city with ambitions to become the cultural hub of Central Europe, but they proved weighty burdens when the city lost the financial privileges of being the cold war capital.

After working in the National Oil Refinery in Chungking China from 1939 to 1941 he served in the Chinese Nationalist Army from 1941 to 1943 as a Lieutenant Colonel during which time he married Florence Wu in 1942, in Chungking, then the war capital of China.

Meanwhile, the "Defense Departmentt has grown ever larger as Washington morphed into a war capital for an unending planetary conflict originally labeled the Global War on Terror.

By the end of the war, capital ship design had developed with battleships becoming faster and battlecruisers becoming more heavily armoured, blurring the distinction between a battlecruiser and a fast battleship.

Clouds of smoke billowed across Ukraine's warring capital.

Consensus Past Mr. Dodd's father, the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd, served in a post-World War II capital that contemporary Washington would not recognize.

Back in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson waged war on capital markets, but Alexander Hamilton understood that only vibrant capital markets would create enough creative destruction to allow poor boys and girls like him to rise and succeed.

Mitt Romney's campaign accuses Barack Obama of waging a "war on capital".

The citizens had merely joined gatherings opposed to the Iraq war and capital punishment.