Sentence examples for war fire from inspiring English sources

It has survived war, fire, political turmoil, financial difficulties but only now is it encountering its very first American play.

It has survived war, fire, political turmoil and financial difficulties, but only now is it encountering its very first American play.

FitzGerald is an eminent writer and nonacademic historian, and the author of, among other things, a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Vietnam War, "Fire in the Lake".

Game of War: Fire Age is an ambitious mobile game that wants to make that prospect a reality — and, most notably, to enable every player to understand what the others are saying while they play.

Throughout the centuries, librarians have preserved books and records from the hazards of war, fire, and flood, and it is no idle boast to say that they have played a large part in maintaining the cultural heritage of their countries.

The FN FAL (for Fusil Automatique Léger — or light automatic rifle), produced by the Herstal factory and sold by the tens of thousands to Libya during the cold war, fire 7.62×51 NATO cartridges, which the Qaddafi government also stockpiled.

But he could not afford to take up the offer, so came to London, where, having been refused for active service, he spent the rest of the war fire-watching on the rooftops of tall buildings.

Porvoo's development has suffered from war, fires, and its proximity to prosperous Helsinki.

The latter was used extensively in the Pacific theatre of war, fired from launching barges against shore installations, particularly just before landing operations (see photograph).

Since the reign of Peter the Great, the Ottoman Empire had been the traditional enemy of Russia; inevitably, the war fired the patriotism and zeal of Catherine's subjects.

The Iraqi war fired the starting gun for the mass privatisation of war – the burgeoning of private security companies staffed by ex-soldiers from armies across the world parodied in the John Cusack film War, Inc.