Sentence examples for war passing from inspiring English sources

Later, Republicans resisted Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to gird the nation for war, passing legislation that limited rearmament and support for European allies.

With the Second World War passing from living memory, the Holocaust remains a subject taught as a singular event and obligation here, and Germans still seem to grapple almost eagerly with their own historic guilt and shame.

I stared at a plaque that identified one building on Main Street as the place where he worked in the family leather goods store, and admired a photo in a corridor of the DeSoto House that shows him being welcomed by a great throng after the end of the Civil War, passing under an arch with the proclamation: "Hail to the Chief Who in Triumph Advances".

This road was used by the French army during their march from Newport, Rhode Island to Yorktown during the Revolutionary War, passing through the area in September 1781.

"Expanded background checks, banning weapons of war, passing nationwide extreme risk protection orders ― at long last, all of these important measures will see a vote from a Congress committed to keeping Americans safe," Gardiner said in a statement.

In 1942 George Orwell observed false propaganda about the Spanish Civil War passing into history, unquestioned, as fact.

The war passed, and, in 1953, Lester thought his hollow lady should have a TV show.

The First World War passed by the Netherlands, which remained happily neutral.

It was Gabin's decision to join the Free French in North Africa that made Dietrich realize she could not "let the war pass me by".

After the seemingly most dangerous phase of hot war passed, the realities of international tension continued to confound the expectations of even the most powerful.

A subsequent motion, carefully written by the government to bolster Mr. Blair without mentioning the possibility of war, passed the House by a vote of 434 to 124.