Sentence examples for war delay from inspiring English sources

The policies generally exclude losses resulting from pilferage, strike, riot, civil commotion, war, delay of shipments, loss of markets, illegal trade, or leakage and breakage.

It should be obvious that in blocking a "rush to war," delay is crucial.

1914 Outbreak of first world war delays the implementation of Home Rule legislation.

Yet while the cold war delayed his career, there was no purge.

The college was founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, but the American Civil War delayed its opening until 1865.

Theodosius, who did not yet dare to risk a civil war, delayed reception of a legation requesting recognition of Arbogast's puppet.

The Gatling gun changed the odds wherever it was used.After a late entry into the American Civil War, delayed by suspicions of newfangled weapons among some senior soldiers, the Gatling gun was put to use at home and abroad.

The people assigned by the White House to oversee communications strategy for the war delayed General Franks's introduction until events unfolded enough on the ground to warrant bringing him out.

One of the Hollywood films in competition in 1946, the festival's first year (the war delayed its original 1939 start date), was the Warners title "Rhapsody in Blue," which played alongside other studio films like "Gaslight" and "Gilda" and European entries like "Rome Open City" and "Beauty and the Beast".

The truth is that the people of Galina had no idea what they were witnessing, but with that ignorance they crutched their way over to something, a necessary something that justified a shared moment in a time that was otherwise completely inexplicable — a tiger that seemed to come from nowhere, a valiant but dead blacksmith, a vanished butcher, a war delayed by the weather.

The Dakota War of 1862 and the American Civil War delayed further improvements.