Sentence examples for wars decline from inspiring English sources

Sales look set to grow, even if big wars decline, as some think likely.

Arguably, governance is improving, elections spreading and dictatorships and wars declining.

And his own interest in fighting little wars declined sharply with the start of World War I, along with his pacifism; as the violent century wore on, Wells became an advocate of an "armed peace," with England holding the gun.

He was booed at an American Legion convention in 1992 and blamed in part by Republicans when the Veterans of Foreign Wars declined to endorse Mr. Bush for re-election that year.

The debate about Britishness is promoted by the extent of our post-war decline.

Even after the bombers have gone and the city's ruined economy is at the start of its post-war decline, he cannot leave.

After years of post-cold war decline, Russians understandably want their leaders to reassert a world role and take firm charge of the country's many problems.

With the post-war decline of British manufacturing, both towns became unemployment blackspots.On the official index of regional deprivation, Walsall is the 31st "most deprived" local authority in the country, Salford comes 23rd, out of 354.

More than half the film is an account of American whaling, from its pre-Mayflower roots through its "golden age" in the early 1800s to its post-Civil War decline.

MEKONS War, decline and ruin are the backdrop for the songs on "Ancient & Modern," the 26th album by Mekons, England's thoughtful and still cantankerous holdouts from the dawn of punk.

Mr Blair knows that what he offers is of considerable value, which is why he is ready both to run those big political risks and to reverse (albeit still too modestly) the long post-cold war decline in defence spending.