Sentence examples for war traffic from inspiring English sources

In February 1991, just after the start of the first Persian Gulf war, traffic across the Atlantic fell 44percentt compared with February 1990, according to the Air Transport Association, the industry's main trade group in this country.

With the onset of World War II, revenue declined due to tire and gas rationing; after the war, traffic again increased.

DESPITE a 30-year-old drug war, trafficking gangs continue to wreak havoc in Latin America.

(Among veterans recently returned from these wars, traffic accidents rank as the leading cause of death).

He has waged a relentless war against traffic lights — "He has a childlike notion that if he could just get rid of all the traffic lights everything would be fine," Blinkin says — and on one central stretch running from the Kremlin almost all the way, but not quite, to Sheremetyevo Airport, outside town, he has just about eliminated them.

Not since the Second World War had traffic in the city flowed as freely.

"The first weeks of the war our traffic was very good," said Monica Davis, a spokeswoman.

Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined.

Sexual violence is a public health crisis in much of the world, and women and girls ages 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or killed by men than by malaria, cancer, war or traffic accidents combined, according to a 2005 study.

It's an ongoing war: the traffic is constantly shifting, the scams are constantly adapting.

Plans for a limited-access road to cross Westchester County east to west date back to the 1920s and became more needed after post-World War II traffic increases.