Sentence examples for war precipitated from inspiring English sources

The war precipitated a vast project of self-examination among European and British artists and intellectuals.

About 3,000 people were killed in the civil war precipitated by Mr. Gbagbo's refusal.

The School War precipitated a conservative landslide in the elections of 1884, which gave the Catholics a majority in both chambers of the parliament.

After all, Obama campaigned for the Presidency by arguing that the Bush Administration had made America less safe by emphasizing Iraq over Al Qaeda, and by failing to finish the "good" war precipitated by September 11th.

Following its success with Weill's One Touch of Venus, the company mounts the first British staging of his satire set on the sleepy Caribbean island of Santa Maria, where romance is stalled by the confiscation of the happy couple's cow to pay for a war precipitated by arms dealers.

Under Mr. Hollande's predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, France also carried out airstrikes to dislodge Ivory Coast's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, in 2011, bringing a quick end to a bloody four-month civil war precipitated by Mr. Gbagbo's refusal to leave office after an electoral defeat.

In this amusing yet poignant work now enjoying a lively revival at the Netherlands Opera, an oracular pronouncement that Achille (Achilles) will die in the Trojan War precipitates an unusual strategy by the future warrior's father to save his life.

According to this view, Judith was meant to be the female counterpart of Judas Maccabeus, leader of the revolt, and the book, discussing a contemporary situation in the guise of an ancient historical setting, was written to encourage the Judaean Jews in the uneasy period of independence following the wars precipitated by the Maccabean uprising.

Could talk of war precipitate the real thing?

I worry that he walks into a situation where he thinks he's being smart, then blunders himself into a corner where the only recourse to get out without looking like an idiot is to use nuclear weapons or go to war, or precipitate a war.

The second war was precipitated by Huguenot fears of an international Catholic plot.