Sentence examples for war milestones from inspiring English sources

She reflects on a life given shape by marriage, motherhood, and world war, milestones that she and the Queen have in common.

While the memorial does tell the stories of first world war milestones and battles that Gallipoli has culturally eclipsed (Pozieres, Fromelles, Ypres, Passchendaele, Hamel, Villers Bretonneux, Beersheba and Damascus), Nelson is mindful of recounting demobilisation and the generational social and emotional legacies of the great war.

He asserted that an important cold war milestone had been passed with Mr. Bush's declaration that Russia is no longer America's enemy.

The trip to North Korea coincided with the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, a milestone that the North Korean government has tried to use for propaganda purposes.

It also comes in the midst of our nation's remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War – a milestone during which talk of race has been largely and strikingly absent.

As it happens, one of the Russian roulette scenes from that film makes an appearance in "Gunga Din"; Mr. Sitko puts the six-member cast through a virtual ooh-rah karaoke of war-movie milestones, re-enacting everything from Vincent D'Onofrio's "Full Metal Jacket" meltdown to the stirring battle cries of "Patton" to the wheelchair-on-wheelchair skirmish in "Born on the Fourth of July".

Eurogamer was enthusiastic in pronouncing Medieval: Total War "a milestone in gaming", while GameZone was less impressed, calling the gameplay "solid, enjoyable battle gaming", while criticising the audio and graphics as "merely average".

It may be decades before we have a full accounting of this disastrous war, but this milestone calls for an interim reckoning.

World War II marked many milestones for Chinese Americans.

Over four and a half years, I have watched them grow up via social media, shared holiday cards, traded war stories, and celebrated milestones with their parents.

Bundles for Britain, which continued through the war, was but one milestone in the life of Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton.