Sentence examples for war owing from inspiring English sources

After the Civil War, owing to changes in economic conditions and in public sentiment about education for women, the seminary became a day school.

Satyajit Ray's "Distant Thunder" depicts the devastating famine that afflicted parts of India during the war owing to Great Britain's confiscation of the rice crop to feed its troops.

Britain was broke after the war, owing huge amounts of money, mainly to the United States, and many of the Labour leaders were weary, having served in the wartime coalition government.

The raids continued to the end of the war owing to fears in the allied high command that the Germans might regain air superiority with the aid of new devices such as ground-to-air missiles (one of which, the Waterfall, was at an advanced stage of development) and jet fighters (the Me 262 was in action well before the end of the war).

The breed nearly became extinct after the Second World War, owing to soldiers using them for target practice and thieves killing them for their meat.

The demographics of Britain itself was changed after the Second World War owing to immigration to Britain from its former colonies.

He is a fine debunker: for example, his view is that Britain's success in the second world war owed less to Winston Churchill's brilliance and more to managing the war effort by committee, and thus making fewer spectacular errors.

"Our Germans are better than their Germans," he says, alluding to the fact that both the Soviet and US rocket and space programmes after the war owed a great deal to former Nazi scientists.

Yet as Havers explains, that American idiom – used, like abstract expressionist painting, as propaganda for go-getting Yankee liberties during the cold war – owed its preservation on records to a Berliner.

This part of Mr. Unger's narrative remains heavily indebted to ground-breaking books like Mr. Hersh's "Chain of Command" (2004), James Bamford's "Pretext for War" (2004) and George Packer's "Assassins' Gate" (2005), just as those portions of Mr. Unger's book related to the administration's selling of the war owe a heavy debt to Frank Rich's "Greatest Story Ever Sold" (2006).

It may be, as the historians' trade union is fond of complaining, that our knowledge of the war owes too much to imaginative literature, but that being the case and the pity of war being well established, how much of the counter-narrative on offer can be unexpected or revelatory?