Sentence examples for war functions from inspiring English sources

I do all this with the complete understanding that our government will just allocate the amount I pay to war functions anyway, and that the small amount I am withholding will not cause Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to lay awake at night.

The stream that existed before its paving-over after the Korean War functioned not as a picturesque waterway but as a utilitarian open sewer for the entire city.

As the scholar Richard Slotkin has noted, survey classes were organized chronologically, and the Civil War functioned as a dividing line between the first and second part.

Part rumination on artistic ownership, part elaboration of his continuing critique of current American politics, part something else entirely, "Uncivil Wars" functions via Mr. Gordon's singular physical and linguistic logic.

But the U.S. government declared platinum a strategic metal during World War II and didn't allow its use in jewelry and other non-war functions.

It is difficult to describe exactly how "Healing Wars" functions, how deftly it delivers a diverse assortment of historical anecdotes and turns physical movement into an extension of each subject under discussion.

Once almost comical riffs on American bombast, the likes of Bollywood Superman and Turkish Star Wars functioned as a kind of shambolic payback for whatever indignities had been heaped on the latest foreign arthouse gem bought up by Hollywood.

It is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security; in time of war it functions as part of the U.S. Navy and is under the direction of the president.

Although private contractors have played a role in every war, military functions — even if they don't technically qualify as combat duty — should be handled by military personnel who are accountable in the chain of command.

But, as Ioan Grillo observes in his recent book, "El Narco," "In the drug business, it seems, a war economy functions perfectly well".

Reliance on Reserves Under a reorganization of the military after the Vietnam War, support functions were passed from the Army to the Reserve.