Example sentences of "war was [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 3 | Political opposition to the war was led by the Communist Party ( PCF ) , although other left-wing and ecological groups as well as trade unions played a prominent role . |
| 4 | A different Christian response to the war was represented by the formation of the non-denominational Fellowship of Reconciliation by a small group of non-resisters . |
| 5 | This secret expansion of the war was revealed by the press , much to Nixon 's fury . |
| 6 | The growth in the provision made by Douglas-Smith and Hampden Jackson in the year before the war was endangered by the rapidly diminishing availability of part-time tutors after September 1939 . |
| 7 | He became an alienated reactionary for whom the trauma of the First World War was reinforced by the memory of the fascist God that failed , and his thought became increasingly dominated by the negative obsession of the conspiracy theory of history . |
| 8 | The war was frozen by the ceasefire , which the United Nations ' special envoy Cyrus Vance negotiated in early January , and by the prospect of a UN peacekeeping force being deployed . |
| 9 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 10 | Equally , Jews may come to recognise how Poles feel that the suffering faced by the nation as a whole in the war was overshadowed by the Holocaust . |
| 11 | Any grudging admission of Britain 's ultimate dependence upon the United States in the event of war was accompanied by the usual warning that Americans were a " mercurial " people , governed by so " archaic " a constitution that the government might be paralysed by its own people in a crisis . |