Sentence examples for war constituted from inspiring English sources

Clark became convinced in his later years that war constituted the greatest threat to human destiny.

Knowing that, we concluded that this sergeant's claim to have an exact tally of his kills in that war — in probably any modern war — constituted an absurdly vainglorious proposition.

It was Richard Nixon who popularized the phrase "silent majority," as a way of insisting that the countercultural masses protesting the Vietnam War constituted nothing more than an outspoken minority.

But the judges are also expected to define a much larger issue: whether the "ethnic cleansing" campaign of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war constituted genocide -- one of the charges against General Krstic.

We've watched as one of the world's most impoverished people were bombed almost out of existence and seen children buried alive next to their mothers, and we knew without the necessity of words these were the children and grandchildren of another people who had been driven from their homes in what in war constituted an occupation of their seas and their skies".

There can be no question that, for Ware, the bodies of the first world war constituted an empire of the dead, and that he, more than anyone else, fought successfully to create and defend the twin foundations of the new collectivist memorial culture: national cemeteries and equal treatment of the fallen.

"Every war constitutes an irony of situation, because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its ends.

As Thomas Hobbes insisted, civil war constitutes the greatest threat to governments, for it represents the dissolution of the "sovereign power".

She argues that I am not justified in self-attributing the belief that there will be a third world war, on the basis of considering geopolitics, unless I recognize that my reasons for expecting a third world war constitute evidence that I believe it will occur.

There is some ambiguity as to what a declaration of war constitutes.

"Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends".