Sentence examples for war contributed from inspiring English sources

The Afghan war contributed to the USSR's collapse.

"There's an example where the laws of war contributed to vast suffering," Mr. Witt said.

And the shock generated by the Persian Gulf war contributed to the relatively mild decline of 1990-91.

Western hostility against the People's Republic of China, sharpened by the Korean War, contributed to the intensity of the ensuing Sino-Soviet relationship.

Virtually everyone who was anyone in the nation's founding, from Colonial days to the post-Revolutionary period and up to the Civil War, contributed their 2 cents, some prosaic, others provocative, to a centuries-long dialogue.

The big generation born after the second world war contributed for many years to higher growth by making the workforce larger, both in absolute terms and relative to the population as a whole.

4. How did the cold war contribute to the current unrest in the Middle East and Afghanistan? 5. Is the cold war still going on?

Political instability, failing governments and war contribute to the crisis.Angola is only now emerging from two decades of a civil war that forced farmers from their fields, and has now left it in need of food for up to 1m people.

Those losses — and the humiliating collapse of American claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — helped turn sentiment at home against the war, contributing to a crash in the popularity of President George W. Bush during his second term and to the election of Barack Obama, who opposed the invasion in 2003.

Western nuclear testing grounds in the Marshall Islands (USA), French Polynesia (France), and Kiribati (Kirtimati Island, UK; USA) as well as ballistic missile testing ranges were major components of the Cold War contributing to the Balance of Power through the threat of mutual destruction (Maclellan 2005).

And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills.