Sentence examples for was declared against from inspiring English sources

On April 20 , 1792 the war that they urged was declared against Austria.

Open season was declared against English shipping, and Charles II was encouraged to reclaim his father's three kingdoms.

A fatwa, or edict, was declared against it and word began to filter down to the villages.

My excuse is the lack, up to now, of any written record to support my conviction that a common front was declared against her soon after her death.

Miss Unity Mitford, daughter of Lord Redesdale, arrived at Folkestone yesterday from Germany, where she has been since war was declared against her Nazi friends.

And can you tell the American people what that war is going to look like? A. I believe -- I know that an act of war was declared against America.

All kinds of sanctions will be declared against you.

He understood the nature of the war that had been declared against America and the western world.

He added: "We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pakistani territory; this in fact puts into display a clear hostility against a neighbouring country".

Since technically war can only be declared against a country, he has effectively recognised (if not legitimised) its "caliphate" as a de facto sovereign state.

As you might have already heard, an act of state censorship has been declared against British pornography in the guise of innocuous regulation.