Sentence examples for war fought for from inspiring English sources

In 2006, Olmert said of the 2006 Lebanese war: "This is a war fought for all the Jews".

It was high time, Johnson declared, that Britons rediscovered their pride in a war fought for freedom, democracy and the inviolability of neutral Belgium.

The bombing of Baghdad ten years ago this week marked the beginning of another senseless American war fought for reasons that turned out not to exist, driven by wrongheaded, cockeyed, and manipulated intelligence.

But the Western Front was also the reason why many members of the early Irish Republican Army, in the war fought for independence from 1919 to 1921, knew how to fight professional soldiers.

But more and more people now realize that even if all goes well at first, it will have been the wrong war, fought for the wrong reasons -- and there will be a heavy price to pay.

But the appropriate analogy for the Iraq war isn't the War for Independence or World War II but Vietnam, another unnecessary war fought for vague, contradictory reasons, with terrible consequences for the Vietnamese and the Americans.

Whistleblowers could feature, as well as wars fought for reasons other than actual defence".

Each has had multiple forms of conflict: not just wars fought for territory and ethnic solidarity, but trade wars and wars of perception and for outside support.

The wars fought for human rights in our own time -- in Bosnia and Kosovo -- have not registered with Pariser's generation.

These discoveries have led scholars to believe that wars fought for control of the commercial river and land trade routes and the disruption of these may have caused the sudden decline of the Maya.

In America, the conservatism in power is rooted in three of the things he most despised: unquestioning faith in the free market, public displays of narrow religiosity (he called ritualism in church "high jinks"), and wars fought for the moral improvement of foreigners.