Sentence examples for war defeated from inspiring English sources

Mr. McGovern, also a highly decorated pilot in the war, defeated him.

That carefully orchestrated war defeated Iraq's armies in a matter of days.

The Polish-Muscovite War had no sooner been ended by the treaty of Deulino than Chodkiewicz was hastily dispatched southwards to defend the southern frontier against the Turks, who, in the opening phase of the Polish Ottoman War, defeated Polish forces at Cecora, killing Hetman Zółkiewski.

In the years following the World War, defeated and underdeveloped countries (many with their own storied histories of innovation) have leaped over the 20th century and into the 21st, with high-tech infrastructures and ambitious, gritty workforces eager to compete in global manufacturing and commerce.

On Sept. 1, 1880, he scored the decisive victory of the Second Afghan War, defeating Ayub Khan's Afghan Army near Qandahār.

Fearing the Spartans would take increasing control of the region, the Romans drew on help from allies to prosecute the Roman-Spartan War, defeating a Spartan army at the Battle of Gythium in 195 BC.

As they defined them at the time, their desired outcomes were outrageous: halt a brutal sectarian civil war, defeat a nationalist-Islamist insurgency, facilitate a political settlement in an ethno-religiously divided synthetic state, and restore essential civil services.

Woodrow Wilson's war to end all wars defeated imperial Germany, but it did not, and could not, defeat war.

In so doing, they give some form of a thumbs-up to the Soviet Union's vast war machine (hey, that war machine defeated the Nazis after all!).

It misjudged Moscow's visceral response to cold war defeat.

Following Saddam's Persian Gulf war defeat, Arafat switched his allegiance to Iran.