Sentence examples for wars faced from inspiring English sources

Duelists in the umbrella wars faced off on sidestreets and on the narrow pavements of Lexington Avenue.

This is why, in the 19th century, Switzerland took an interest in it.Switzerland after the Napoleonic wars faced a situation quite similar to America's a generation earlier.

In the rush for money and in the name of patriotism, the horrors of wars, faced squarely by many Americans in the Vietnam War era, are now largely disregarded.

Right now our country is entangled in two bloody wars, faced with an economic collapse on par with The Great Depression, and represented by a fourth estate with a reputation as shaky as its bottom line.

The White House's request for $37 billion in emergency funding for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars faces resistance from legislators on both sides of the aisle.

Sayf al-Dawla was widely celebrated for his role in the Arab Byzantine Wars, facing a resurgent Byzantine Empire that in the early 10th century had begun to reconquer Muslim territories.

Places recently ravaged by bloody war faced a new outrage: the multiple detonation of atomic bombs.

The photographers who got the measure of this war faced challenges unknown to any who chronicled conflicts before them.

Given the ravages of war faced by Iraq, the condition of its cultural heritage may seem a trivial matter.

His books graphically describe the brutal realities of war faced by the ordinary soldier, and some readers believed that they contain an anti-war message.

Miguel Centeno, a sociology professor at Princeton who teaches a class called "The Western Way of War," faced a similar predicament.