Sentence examples for war intended from inspiring English sources

The Obama Administration studied the potential costs and benefits of a preventive war intended to destroy North Korea's nuclear weapons.

A war intended to help combat terrorism has led to the recruitment of more terrorists and the spread of Al Qaeda to Iraq.

A war intended to showcase American power has ended up underscoring "the deficiencies of U.S. intelligence, the incompetence of American administration and the limitations on the American military".

A war intended to make Israel more secure has made that country more vulnerable to threats from Syria, Iran and Hezbollah.

It was not just a question of stimulating private sector investment, but also of culture war intended to re-engineer the electorate along the lines of the "popular capitalism" vaunted by Thatcher, and announced in the infamous "Tell Sid" campaign.

A war intended to create a bulwark against the ayatollahs in Tehran turned into a "strategic gift to Iran" and the empowerment in Iraq of pro-Iranian Shiite theocrats.

The author set his Booker prize-shortlisted book The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith during the Boer war, intending it as an allegory of the Vietnam war.

The older dynasty understood the psychological Art of War, intending to rattle the little dynasty, diminishing Xiao Bushi before the conservative (but fickle) base he has s assiduously catered to.

James P. Rubin, the State Department spokesman, who helped negotiate the disarmament of the Kosovo Liberation Army after the war, intends to press Mr. Thaci and other Albanian leaders to stem the violence when he visits Kosovo this weekend, officials said.

In "The Grapes of Wrath," Tom Joad, just released from prison, comes back to his Oklahoma home to find his parents, sharecroppers, displaced by the cigar-chewing bankers and anonymous corporations whose roaring tractors, rolling like tanks in a war, intend to pacify a land where families once were born and buried.

For several hundred years European states had fought static, nonideological wars intended to rearrange the map without drastically altering the overall balance of power.