Example sentences of "gulf war [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE of miles away from Westminster , the Gulf war is being debated with even greater passion than in the Commons itself . |
| 2 | For him , the Gulf war is no more than the challenge of a criminal to society . |
| 3 | In so far as the Gulf war is concerned , the hon. Gentleman is referring to one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken by this country or any other . |
| 4 | The question whether we should have proceeded with the Gulf war is another issue , but I remind the House of the repeated statements by my right hon. Friend , President Bush and others as to the limited purpose of that operation . |
| 5 | Although this sounds like propaganda , the memory of chemical warfare waged by the Iraqis in the Gulf war is too recent for it to be dismissed . |
| 6 | A counselling service set up in Gloucestershire to help victims of the Gulf War is to be extended to Bosnian refugees . |
| 7 | I am sorry I d d , I agree with you on one one point that the Middle Eastern er , er government that of the super power from , from the reception , but what really happened in the Gulf War is a typical reflection of the injustice of how the war was being conducted . |
| 8 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 9 | And I do n't think the Gulf war is a test of that . |
| 10 | JORDANIAN hoteliers who saw their business decimated by the Gulf War are now suffering the ultimate irony of relying on Iraqi visitors to bolster their flagging industry . |
| 11 | Taking a break from discussions on the role of the media in the Gulf War are ( from left to right ) : Rev Randy Naylor ( Canada ) , Midori Suzuki ( Japan ) , Rev James Massey ( India ) , Pradip Thomas ( WACC 's Asia Region coordinator ) , Kevin Engel ( Australia ) and Rev Carlos A Valle ( WACC 's general secretary ) . |
| 12 | THE PARENTS of a Merseyside soldier killed in the Gulf War are preparing for an emotionally-charged memorial service in Kuwait . |
| 13 | So though it is hard to imagine the stealthy fighter-bombers , map-reading cruise missiles and pinpoint bombs that won the Gulf war being beaten by Brazilian , Chinese or Russian weapons for decades , there is a good argument for what will now in effect be an arms race by America against itself . |
| 14 | BATTLE-WEARY British pilots too scared to fight on in the Gulf War were secretly replaced , Whitehall admitted last night . |
| 15 | Losses arising from the Gulf War were also sustained although these are now historical and were ‘ for the account ’ of HMG . |
| 16 | Does the Minister accept that , from the point of view of cost effectiveness , the members of the Territorial Army and the reserve forces who served in the Gulf war were remarkably cost effective ? |
| 17 | The pictures of bombing in Iraq which became familiar viewing during the Gulf War were taken from Buccaneers . |
| 18 | The demands of the Gulf war were very different . |
| 19 | Theo Sommer , the editor of the influential German weekly Die Zeit , captured the intellectual mood in his country when he wrote that the Gulf war was a ‘ last , almost spastic twitching of US supremacy . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Solarz 's supporters would say that his courage in the Gulf war was typical of a politician willing to buck the conventional liberal wisdom when the facts demand it . |
| 21 | AN inside account of the Gulf War was given to the Alresford and District branch of the Royal Air Forces Association at a recent meeting at the Kingsworthy Sports and Social Club . |
| 22 | The Conservative manifesto makes much of the 13 years ' record in foreign policy , but is silent about the great motto of two years ago ‘ the new world order ’ , which the Gulf war was supposed to promote . |
| 23 | The technology that won the Gulf war was developed to defeat the Warsaw Pact . |
| 24 | The interview with Jason , he tells the jury , had been ‘ twisted , distorted , added to and invented ; and it attributed cowardice at the very moment the Gulf War was about to break out ’ . |
| 25 | The debate on the " new international order " to follow the Gulf war was overshadowed by jostling between leading contenders for the succession to the party leadership , and ultimately for the succession to Mitterrand ( although presidential elections were not due until 1995 ) . |
| 26 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 27 | Damage to the industrial sector as a result of the Gulf war was calculated on Sept. 2 by the Minister of Commerce and Industry , Abdullah Hassan Jaralla as totalling KD25,000 million ( US$85,800 million ) ; that inflicted on the oil sector , estimated by the Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba on Sept. 19 , at around US$75,000 million . |
| 28 | The involvement of the mujaheddin as part of the multinational force engaged in the Gulf war was criticized by the government which in February 1991 declared that military action in the Gulf had exceeded the mandate of UN Resolution 678 . |
| 29 | The first anniversary of the Gulf war was marked on Jan. 17 by conflicting estimates of the total number of Iraqi civilians killed during the Gulf war . |
| 30 | The most serious environmental consequence of the Gulf war was the firing of some 650 Kuwaiti oil wells by retreating Iraqi forces . |