Sentence examples for war half from inspiring English sources

Out of some twelve million people displaced by the war — half of Syria's population — four million have fled the country.

By 1997, when Mr. Taylor's election as Liberia's president marked an end to the first civil war, half of Ms. Sirleaf's immediate family were dead.

Of the 80,000 that enlisted in the first 12 months of the war, half were from Ulster and half from the south.

The shootout was the second worst naval clash between the two countries since the end of the Korean War, half a century ago.

Of the estimated 45,000 combatants in the country's nine-year war, half are said to have given up their weapons.

And yet it is a measure of the political force of "War and Peace" -- or at least of the second, "war" half of the opera -- that it cannot only stir ghosts from the past but also mirror events of today.

I thought our job was to do as much as we could to prevent this President from going off to war half-cocked.

Those who are so fascinated with counterinsurgency, from its chief advocate, Gen. David Petraeus, all the way down to the cocktail-hour kibitzers inside the Beltway, seem to have lost sight of a fundamental aspect of warfare: You don't go to war half-stepping.

This was evidently never completed, as the hulk was discovered by Allied forces in Trieste after the war half-sunk.

In addition to the foodie culture, "The Food Wife" parodies the video game industry and references games such as Assassin's Creed, God of War, Half-Life, Bioshock, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Madden NFL, and Angry Birds.

James Baker has joined his nemesis from the 2000 Bush v Gore battle, Warren Christopher, in recommending a stunning new piece of federal legislation: a law designed to rein in presidents who want to go to war half-cocked.