Sentence examples for war left off from inspiring English sources
In the task of curbing the old nobility, the king was immeasurably helped by the high aristocratic death rate during the Wars of the Roses; but where war left off, policy took over.
The special surface graphic on each mousepad depicts characters from the upcoming StarCraft II, which will pick up where the events of StarCraft: Brood War left off, following familiar characters and new heroes through the next chapter of the series' epic story.
Not to entirely spoil the ending of "Charlie Wilson's War," but the movie and book both suggested that the Cold War suffered from a spoiled ending -- and now, in the cities and frontiers of Pakistan, we must pick up where that war left off.
Emily (not her real name) now resides with her aunt in Bouake in central Côte d'Ivoire, where AIDS has picked up where the civil war left off, taking lives with impunity.
The triumph of the Canadian system over America's spelled out in the cold truth of dollar signs picks up where the war of 1812 left off.
"Endgame" picks up where the events of "Avengers: Infinity War," released in April, left off.
Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the truce collapsed in '15, and the war picked up where it left off.
And then, he said, the war would pick up where it left off.
After suffering the enormous immediate costs of war, it seems that people rather quickly return to where they left off.
But such was his achievement that others who wrote about the war — for instance Xenophon, whose Hellenica covers the final decade of fighting — began where Thucydides left off.
