Sentence examples for war decline from inspiring English sources

After years of post-cold war decline, Russians understandably want their leaders to reassert a world role and take firm charge of the country's many problems.

More than half the film is an account of American whaling, from its pre-Mayflower roots through its "golden age" in the early 1800s to its post-Civil War decline.

MEKONS War, decline and ruin are the backdrop for the songs on "Ancient & Modern," the 26th album by Mekons, England's thoughtful and still cantankerous holdouts from the dawn of punk.

Mr Blair knows that what he offers is of considerable value, which is why he is ready both to run those big political risks and to reverse (albeit still too modestly) the long post-cold war decline in defence spending.

Molly's early travails, set against the backdrop of a North Carolina plantation in post-Civil War decline, make her kin to the plucky heroines of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novels "The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess" — smart, dreamy girls wrenched from happy childhoods by the loss of their parents.

During the years of Washington's active engagement in Iraq, Russia's once-strong role in the Middle East seemed to have been eclipsed: the basic facilities of its naval base at Tartus in Syria almost emblematic of its post-Cold War decline.

Rather than war declining, the difference between peace and war has been fatally blurred.

Support for a war declined when the public was offered other alternatives or considerations.

Support for the Vietnam War declined for several years before Lyndon B. Johnson's overall support began eroding.

As enthusiasm for the Boer war declined, questions were being asked about how it was handled.

Between 1969 and 1974, as spending on the Vietnam War declined, the government reduced consumption and investment by 24 percent after adjusting for inflation.