Sentence examples for war tests from inspiring English sources

A war tests a nation's strength, which consists, practically speaking, of its citizens' willingness to die for their country and to give it money.

A27 Report Reveals Cold War Tests In the latest release of once-classfied reports on chemical warfare tests during the cold war, the Pentagon said that it detonated artillery shells and rockets filled with deadly Sarin gas in Hawaii in 1967.

Being deployed in the military during a time of war tests the resiliency of every service man and woman.

Following post war tests by the British Navy on German Type XXIII submarines, it was decided by the Admiralty to modify eight T-class submarines to enlarge the batteries, increase the power of the motors and streamline the hulls.

The end of the cold war tested Cubans' patience as never before.

"The Spanish Civil War tested only weapons," said the Israeli political theorist Yaron Ezrahi.

The fear of nuclear war tested the last generation, and the fear of communism and fascism tested my generation.

After the second world war, testing shifted to the southern Pacific Ocean on the grounds of public safety.

He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal".

"Skull Valley was the template," said Chip Ward, author of the book "Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West," about the legacies of cold war testing.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.