Sentence examples for war governments from inspiring English sources

Even before the first world war, governments put up the shutters against migrants and imports.

Under the stimulus of war, governments poured resources into developing new medicines and technologies.

Since the Second World War, governments and armies have gradually forsworn weapons that do not distinguish between soldiers and civilians.

In the aftermath of the second world war, governments created the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

In the decades immediately after the second world war, governments were able to protect their domestic steel industries through the use of high tariffs.

In war, governments usually enlarge the scope of their domestic authority; they may raise conscript forces, imprison conscientious objectors, subject aliens to internment, sentence traitors to death, impose extraordinary controls on the economy, censor the press, compel settlement of labour disputes, impose internal-travel limitations, withhold passports, and provide for summary forms of arrest.

Before the war government revenue came from oil and taxes on a diversified economic base of industry, tourism and agriculture.

After the first Opium War, government prestige declined, and officials lost their capacity to reconcile communal feudings.

Beveridge is still revered, as is the post war government for implementing his recommendations.

Aside from huge increases in military spending during World War II and the Korean War, government purchases tend to change less than 0.5% a year.

Millions have fled war, government abuse, and terrorism.