Sentence examples for war financed from inspiring English sources

About 50,000 people are estimated to have died in a civil war financed by "blood diamonds".

Erik's favouritism toward Danes in his official appointments and his war financed by heavy taxes meanwhile had aroused opposition in Norway and Sweden and among the Danish peasants.

Part of the film would detail "the rise of a global holy war — financed by the cash flow of oil — to attack and destroy western civilization," according to the outline.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he assembled an international coalition to repel the Iraqi forces, using U.S. military air power and a huge ground army to drive them back, a war financed heavily with the bankrolls of U.S. allies.

It lost children to prison and gangs, including Kayla and Aaron Foster, siblings killed four years apart in an intimate block-by-block war financed by the drug trade.

As NSSF and many other proponents of the latest and most dangerous weapons models are quick to point out, gun makers in America have long looked to the military for inspiration and funding; the Colt 45 was initially designed for soldiers, and the Civil War financed the construction of many stately homes along the Connecticut River.

For example, "the U.S. civil war was financed with war bonds," Mr. Kidney told delegates at a carbon conference in Singapore last week.

War finance is a branch of defense economics.

A popular fallacy about war finance is that government borrowing transfers the war costs to future generations.

In November 2007, both voted for a bill authorizing $50 billion in war financing but mandating troop withdrawals.

The discussion of war finance and industrial mobilisation already shows the shape of eventual defeat for the central powers.