Example sentences of "for a war " in BNC.
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| 1 | His claim for a War Disablement Pension was rejected by the Department of Social Security . |
| 2 | Korea 's present crop of elected politicians have so far lacked the stomach for a war on inflation . |
| 3 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 4 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 5 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 6 | However , the judges awarded it one of the fifth prizes for a War Department design . |
| 7 | His cynicism is understandable — the black humoured script depicts US soldiers as sadists and racists , hopelessly trying to find a rationale for a war that their country can not justify . |
| 8 | Saddam was kitting out Iraq for a war with Britain , with British hardware — and a ministerial nod . |
| 9 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 10 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 11 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
| 12 | The BDDA provided also for the needs of their own members by setting aside the sum of £500 for a War Emergency Relief Fund in order " to relieve hardship suffered by deaf and dumb people and their missions through enemy action . |
| 13 | And , to pay him credit , I think once Mrs Thatcher had gone Douglas Hurd took advantage of the new leadership to drop the demand for a war crimes tribunal , and he has tried very hard recently to develop a common approach to the postwar situation with France , Germany and Italy , the three key countries . |
| 14 | The Germans , who are so widely attacked for not coughing up more for a war on which they were n't consulted , are the only Western country making real sacrifices , not only to integrate East Germany , which is costing them 150 billion Dm this year , but also to help Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and even the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | By the time Bomberg applied for a war artist 's commission in 1939 he was a sadly neglected figure . |
| 16 | Two risings under Henry VII followed attempts to levy taxes ; in 1489 the earl of Northumberland lost his life at the hands of a force of rebellious Yorkshiremen when he was trying to collect the subsidy granted that year , and in 1497 the levying of a tax for a war with Scotland led to a more serious revolt in Cornwall . |
| 17 | I know I 'm sorry for a war having to break out , and the youngsters out there having to risk their lives , I mean God forbid we got another war . |