Sentence examples for war engaged from inspiring English sources

He enjoyed striking the figure of a bourgeois gentleman, though one who, during lean years after the Second World War, engaged in art forgery and currency counterfeiting.

At the time, the nation was embroiled in the Cold War, engaged in armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, while Communism appeared to represent a worldwide menace.

Alan Furst writes of Nicholas Morath, a Hungarian living in Paris on the eve of war, engaged in various love affairs and diplomatic missions that are described with more wry, interesting intelligence and less braggadocio than might be expected.

The GQG officers, isolated from the direct effects of the war, engaged in intrigue on a grand scale and there was little co-operation between the rival departments.

Instead of depicting soldiers in the Peninsular War engaging in acts of wanton cruelty, the Chapmans used fibreglass mannequins of pre-teen children with their features distended by penises.

Both the Obama and Trump Administrations have avoided deep intervention in Syria's civil war, engaging largely in only a slice of it — the fight against ISIS, beginning when it seized a third of Syria and a third of Iraq to create the Islamic State, in 2014.

France maintained this military presence throughout the war, engaging Kagame's RPF forces again in February 1993 during the offensive that doubled RPF territory.

Ever since assuming office, Sadat had continually threatened Israel with war, engaging in brinkmanship, until his threats became ignored by Israel and the world.