Sentence examples for war illustrated from inspiring English sources

Events in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf war, illustrated in words and pictures.

For Polybius, the Second Punic War illustrated the superiority of the strong Roman constitution over Hannibal's individual genius.

First, that the White House was right — politically, if not strategically — to seek Congress's signoff, since the Gulf War illustrated how doing so can reassure an unsteady electorate.

Yossarian's war illustrated a world in which the only way out was to go crazy, and to go crazy in such circumstances was proof of sanity.

Mr. Blechman's soldier, Vertov, is returning to his village at the end of the war (illustrated in a searing montage of battlefield photographs from World War I).

For many, his image became a symbol, the human cost of Syria's devastating war illustrated by a bloodied face and mop of hair, smothered in the dust of what once stood as his bedroom.

Her detailed case studies of the Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, Panama Canal Treaty, humanitarian mission in Somalia, and Iraq War illustrate the importance of oversight in generating the information citizens need to judge the president's national security policies.

Nonetheless, those dealing with Turkey, an ally straddling the West and the volatile Middle East, and Mexico, a troubled neighbor battling a corrosive drug war, illustrate the diplomatic problems created by exposing even routine communications to international light.

Each week, they endure a quest involving the termination of a social-media manager, or the agony of a day-long meeting, or the assembly of a PowerPoint presentation meant to win a contract supplying arms for a secret war, illustrating bullet points with actual bullets.

The following excerpt (8) from a secondary school textbook explaining the events that led to the First World War illustrates how the interaction between high/low Significance and Affect can create a feeling of rising tension: (Quinlan et al. 2003, 38).

At the same time, though, the lessons of the Six-Day War illustrate just how tough and tortuous the path can be.