Sentence examples for war recognized from inspiring English sources

Samuel Chapman Armstrong, a Union general during the American Civil War and an agent for the Freedmen's Bureau after the war, recognized the need to educate the recently freed slaves.

Earl Warren, who was Chief Justice at the height of the Cold War, recognized that the United States could not purport to lead the free world while practicing state-sanctioned racial discrimination at home, and he led the Court accordingly.

At the outset of the Vietnam War, Col. John Paul Vann, who would emerge as one of the most thoughtful and ultimately tragic officers in the war, recognized the paradox and realized his firepower-loving commanders had not.

Of equal importance is the long afterlife enjoyed by Lieber's work – it became a core text in the modern laws of war recognized worldwide, and many elements of his code continue to inform our public debate how best to respond to a new form of warfare in both an effective and a moral manner.

This is doubly the case for Baarle, as Spain finally recognized the Netherlands at Westphalia, after 80 years of war — recognizing the border of which Baarle forms a part.

The US president alluded in his speech to the lingering shadow of the war, recognizing the enduring "ache" for the families of the millions of Vietnamese and almost 60,000 Americans who died.

On Veterans Day, November 11 , 2013 a group representing the Puerto Rican community in Connecticut placed a floral arrangement on the tomb of Augusto Rodrigues, who fought in the American Civil War, recognizing him as Puerto Rico's first known U.S. Armed Forces veteran.

In his Code for the Government of Armies, drafted for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War, Lieber recognized the need for a systematic, institutionalized code of behaviour to mitigate the devastation of war, protect civilians, and regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.

After routing Georgia in the war, Russia recognized both territories as independent.

After the brief war, Russia recognized Georgia's two breakaway enclaves, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as independent.

The flag will be on display for two years, while the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is recognized.