Sentence examples for war cling from inspiring English sources

But those who continue to defend the legality of the war cling to the idea that non-compliance was in itself sufficient justification.

Then suddenly, the insistent congeniality was subjected to its toughest test: A man rushed into the court from the private chambers behind the judge, shouting wildly about Mr. Blair and the Iraq war, clinging desperately to a desk barely 10 feet from the former prime minister.

Pulsing with illness and war, clinging to the appearance of being ok.

The word has always been unhelpful, for it misses how foreseeably Mr Kim's Communist dynasty has blackmailed the outside world, defying the odds and the end of the cold war to cling to power.

Mr McNamara, ordered to win the war and clinging to his statistical strategy of attrition, approved the troop increases.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Walk through the streets of Kabul and evidence of the West's decade-long war literally clings to the Afghan youth: the American labels emblazoned on their shirts and jeans, the stylish sunglasses they wear, the cellphones they clutch to update their lives on Twitter and Facebook.

They complain that President Clinton has wasted much of the decade since the end of the cold war by clinging to the orthodoxy of using the specter of "mutual assured destruction" to deter any nuclear power from contemplating a first strike.

But why does that make it all right to cling to war loot?

Kurds are captive to the painful memories of repression under Hussein; like the Sunni and Shiite Arabs, who fought a brutal sectarian war, the Kurds, too, cling to a narrow identity, theirs defined by ethnicity, rather than national citizenship.

It is that once Mr Hussein decides that he has nothing to lose, he will opt for a Wagnerian exit by striking out with his weapons of mass destruction.Though he had them, Mr Hussein did not use these weapons in Kuwait, presumably because he reasoned, correctly, that he could lose a war there and still cling to power in Baghdad.

Now, looking back from our perspective of over 60 years after that second terrible war, we see Mellors, who was a soldier in India in the first world war, and Constance Chatterley with her war-crippled husband, clinging on to each other, and just ahead the next war that would involve the whole world.