Sentence examples for war provoked from inspiring English sources

Greece was embroiled in civil war provoked by Communists.

That 2014 marked 100 years since the start of the first world war provoked sombre commemorations in the countries that lost millions of lives in the conflict.

His brief reign, from 1347 to 1354, might have turned the tide of Byzantine misfortunes had not the second civil war provoked unprecedented social and political consequences.

He was a loyal, ruthless apparatchik for Bashar's father Hafez, and his mysterious killing last week in the Syrian war provoked no tears in Beirut.

Every other Israeli war provoked enough films to constitute a genre, especially the war of 1967, which produced a sense of euphoric invincibility in Israel.

More than two decades later, "Loving Graham Greene" can be seen, among other things, as a kind of coda to the trauma that the war provoked.

Maybe we in the West should realize that it takes more time to erase what war provokes — destruction and despair — than to impose what it is supposed to bring: a democratic system.

Famously Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, president from 1989 to 1997, initiated secret contacts with the Americans to receive arms during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, provoking the so-called Iran-Contra affair.

Skeletal, dead of eye, and with a capacity to extract sympathy from the viewer despite his horrific acts, Arthur was devastated by the First World War, provoking viewers to consider how many other men like him went on after the Somme to kill and kill again in pub fight, gang battle and prison brawl.

With studios in London, Cairo and Lebanon, and correspondents across the world, BBC Arabic is tasked with providing "impartial, balanced and accurate news and information" across a region where reports on the Gaza war provoke cries of bias from all sides and one viewer's "terrorist" can be another's "freedom fighter".

Wars provoked by pictures tend to begin in clear outlines and bright colors.