Sentence examples for war managed from inspiring English sources

Appignanesi's mother, during the Second World War, managed to save herself and her husband from Nazi persecution through a complex play of identities.

To stop all of this, Franco rose up with the army, and, after three years of war, managed to throw out the enemies of the Fatherland.

The European Union is a community of nations which, despite being ravaged by two world wars and divided by the cold war, managed to come together to deliver peace, security and prosperity for a generation.

Even the Kaiser, apparently, after Germany's defeat in the first world war, managed to find consolation and amusement in the kind of things that go on at the Drones Club (there is, I am told, even now, a branch in Amsterdam where the members are encouraged to throw bread rolls at each other for recreational purposes).

The Second Chechen War managed to be even uglier and more brutal than the first.

Naturally, few films make the effort of displaying the totality of all viewpoints in one sequence, or simply can't, which is something "Spoils of War" managed to do in a 20-minute battle scene largely because we already had 50+ hours of caring about Game of Thrones' characters.

The nation will be ill served if officials who didn't do all they could to prevent a terrorist attack, or led the nation into an unnecessary war, manage to shift the blame to someone else.

Sometimes the law of war manages to achieve things that people should be able to take for granted but cannot, such as sparing a hospital from attack in Mali or getting an ambulance through a checkpoint in the West Bank.

Our society is morally rigorous – we are judged harshly on the smallest misdemeanour - yet Somehow the edifice of delusion which we have created around the first world war manages to explain away 888,246 grisly deaths and the criminally insane decisions which brought them about, as some sort of sad political necessity.

Bassett returned to his banking career after the war, managing branches of the National Bank in Auckland and later in Paeroa.

The great writer hurled himself into danger in three wars, managed to survive two plane crashes on the same big-game safari in remote Africa, and precipitated many domestic dramas with a variety of love affairs in the course of his four marriages.