Sentence examples for war opportunities from inspiring English sources

During the cold war, opportunities for western scholars to research the Viking penetration of Eurasia along the great river systems of the Volga and the Dnieper were in the deep freeze.

One of Oxford University's most brilliant students, the greatest woman mountaineer of her age, an archaeologist and linguist, passionate, unhappy and rich, Bell saw in Arab male society, and what US President Woodrow Wilson called "the whole disgusting scramble" for the Middle East after the first world war, opportunities that were unthinkable at home.

He talked of his parents, refugees from Nazism, and the post-war opportunities they enjoyed.

War offered opportunities for upward mobility.

People who have left have cited frustration with management, less job excitement with the end of the cold war and opportunities to make more money in private life.

Russia, which also had been an important Austrian ally for most of the Seven Years' War, sought opportunities for expansion at the expense of its weak neighbors.

In the organization's 17 years, it has helped 271,000 women survivors of war access opportunities through programs of rights awareness, vocational skills education and access to jobs.

"Our private investors viewed the wars as opportunities for making money," McGeer told me.

Irish mine workers, overwhelmingly Democratic and wretchedly poor, saw in the war an opportunity to strike for higher wages.

In 1920 he won the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, but his owner refused to run him in the Kentucky Derby, denying Man o' War the opportunity to win what would later become known as the American Triple Crown.

"He also saw in it, having just come back from the war, this opportunity to show the power of a.45 pistol," his son said.