Sentence examples for war characterized from inspiring English sources

In three days, the Allies had advanced some 8 miles (13 km), a huge achievement in a war characterized by minute gains at enormous cost.

In that crucial phase of the Hundred Years' War characterized by the campaigns of Joan of Arc, Touraine was the principal base of King Charles VII. Louis XI made Plessin-lès-Tours his favourite seat.

In a war characterized by small, brutal battles, the Korangal had more than its share, and its abandonment has left soldiers who fought there confronting confusion, anger and pain.

After this, do you think Danny will ever be kidnapped again?" Though Danny Pearl, as both authors point out, did not consider himself a war correspondent, in a way he was one: in a new kind of war characterized by an unparalleled dispersion of forces.

A global order on the model of ius publicum Europaeum will therefore remain unattainable, and a global civil war characterized by absolute enmity will be unavoidable, Schmitt concludes, as long as the world's foremost powers are committed to universalist ideologies that imply a rejection of the spatialization of political conflict (GO 90 5; VA 375 85).

The film is set in 1957 during a period of the Cold War characterized by escalation in tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Heather Hobson did not like "Lord of War," characterizing the film as that "terrible Nicolas Cage movie" in an interview with The New York Times.

Traditional Chinese accounts consider this the turning point of the war, characterizing it as a military upset that secured southern China from the northern invaders.

Gulf War syndrome, cluster of illnesses in veterans of the Persian Gulf War (1990 91) characterized not by any definable medical condition or diagnostic test but by variable and nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, muscle and joint pains, headaches, memory loss, and posttraumatic stress reactions.

The Civil War caused the Bolsheviks to adopt a more severe economic policy known as War Communism, characterized chiefly by the expropriation of private business and industry and the forced requisition of grain and other food products from the peasants.

War diminishes everyone and all states, even the victors, and that is especially true if the war is characterized by broken promises and dashed hopes, perceptions of betrayal, and disappointment in an ally.