Sentence examples for war fired from inspiring English sources

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.

These were the last shots of the war fired against German batteries on the Belgian coast.

There, she participated in an operation that saw the first shots of the war fired against the Russians, on 2 August.

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

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 doesn't have anywhere near a billion, or even a million, players yet — it's now being tested by tens of thousands of players in a beta version in Australia, France, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore — but that's the goal.

At about 450 years old, the Old Vine has survived war, fire and pestilence, and still produces fat bunches of red Žametovka grapes (most vines slow down at the tender age of 40).