Sentence examples for war standard from inspiring English sources

Yet predictions of NATO's decline hold it to an impossible cold war standard.

This week, there's a treasure trove of free-to-access golden era gems at the unlikely looking "global TV channel" Viki: with the service dominated by commercial Asian fare with limited crossover appeal, the likes of Sin Takes a Holiday, a jaunty Constance Bennett romcom from 1930, or All Quiet on the Western Front, the enduring war standard from the same year, seem there almost by accident.

The Battle of Baton Rouge was small by Civil War standards.

It took more than 30 years to fully restore the town's housing stock to pre-Civil War standards.

In the US, studies and mitigation only followed decades of health effects on uranium miners of the Southwestern United States employed during the early Cold War; standards were not implemented until 1971.

My aunt, the artist Rachel Reckitt, got into her pre-war Standard 8 and bombed south through France within months of the first press reports; she was with one of those privileged groups to be taken round by torchlight before the caves were closed to the public for ever.

That would place in doubt the so-called "two-war standard" that has been the bedrock of American strategy for decades.Although congressional hawks on both sides of the aisle are disturbed by what all this may mean for America's standing in the world, so far they seem to be losing the battle with their colleagues to mitigate the sequester.

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This year has already seen him perform around the world and release an album largely composed of pre-war standards, entitled Kisses on the Bottom.

The show chronicles Russian avant-garde painters' eccentric reactions to France, but the exhibition itself is part of Russia's angry yet enamoured tango with another country: Britain.By post-cold-war standards, Anglo-Russian relations are noxious so bad that for a while it seemed that "From Russia" might be cancelled.

Sterling is substantially stronger against both the dollar ($1.66 against $1.41) and the euro (€1.21 against €1.11) but of course, that is partly down to the fact that both the US and the euro zone have had very low rates as well.In short, this is a modest recovery by post-war standards and the biggest gainers have been equity investors.