Sentence examples for war launched from inspiring English sources

The first world war launched Britain's former dominions as independent nations.

He rose to power on the back of the Chechen war launched in 1999.

When the ground war launched, we enjoyed a several-week respite from Saddam's Scuds.

Say, do you remember the 1973 Middle East war, launched by Egypt and Syria against Israel?

"They are in line with the psychological war launched by enemies who want to harm Iran and Russia's relationship".

It was the Jews, he believed, who had fomented the war launched (in reality by himself) in September 1939.

Here as elsewhere, a political elite "bounced" the nation into war, launching measures that were conceived as defensive or precautionary, but had an escalating effect.

In September 2015 Russia undertook its own intervention in the Syrian Civil War, launching a campaign of air strikes in support of the Assad regime over the objections of the U.S.-led U.S.-ledn coalitiong air strikes against ISIL.

The union took the evaluations' release as a cue to wage war, launching a city-wide advertising campaign that blasted the move.

Last week, Trump escalated his war, launching a series of tweets that falsely claimed Amazon receives billions in subsidies from the U.S. Postal Service and avoids paying sales taxes.

Wars launched against India in 1947, 1965 and 1999, won little or nothing beyond international opprobrium.