Sentence examples for war dwindled from inspiring English sources

As the Cold War dwindled, environmentalism became the next target, the next Communism.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev). accused Bush of living in a "state of denial" and of becoming "isolated" and "obstinate" as public support for the war dwindled.

America worries that the vast ungoverned spaces of the Sahara desert could provide sanctuary for jihadists.For the moment, the biggest danger is in Algeria, where militants have been hardened in a brutal insurgency following an Islamist election victory in 1991 annulled by the army; at least 100,000 people were killed before the civil war dwindled, but did not entirely die out, after 1999.

Nevertheless, with public support for the war dwindling, and with the military exhausted and stretched to the breaking point physically and psychologically after so many years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the president is ratcheting the war up instead of winding it down.

During the Korean and Vietnam wars, as the body bags and crippled veterans began coming back to the United States in large numbers, public support for the wars dwindled considerably.

The Thai border is just seven miles away, but the illegal gem and timber trade with Thailand that financed the war has dwindled.

The war nevertheless dwindled to Moro raids and ambushes, and the MNLF itself was reported to have split into factions, partly on the lines of traditional ethnic and regional Moro rivalries.

As the number of First World War veterans dwindled, calls grew to give the last remaining veteran a state funeral.

His idea was based on the Mitropa Cup, a tournament created by the great Austria coach Hugo Meisl which prospered between the wars but dwindled in importance thereafter.

The polls that show support for war steadily dwindling are not likely to get better.

The prospect of war is dwindling as Russian troops have been recalled to their bases – but we are not out of the woods yet.