Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the er civil war Abraham Lincoln er suspended , unilaterally , without consultation , er suspended the writ of habeas corpus who knows what habeas corpus is ? |
| 2 | Well this is part of a one million er £ er campaign to try and raise money for a lot of projects that we run in eight countries in southern Africa , from Angola to Mozambique , where our , the problems are absolutely horrendous er civil war in Mozambique for example , in Malawi , one in ten of the population are refugees , principally from Mozambiquan civil war , arriving at refugee camps in Bark and absolutely nothing er at all in terms of possessions . |
| 3 | So it 's a kind of a strange argument to suggest on the one hand the Vienna settlement was a factor in in preventing wars between all the great , er major war involving all the great powers . |
| 4 | In his memorandum Aziz accused Kuwait of having deliberately pursued policies aimed at weakening Iraq during the latter 's eight-year war with Iran . |
| 5 | Until two years ago he was , despite his flirtations with the Soviet Union , seen as an ally in President Reagan 's obsessional war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua . |
| 6 | The invasion danger , and the loss of Minorca , tapped a wave of fierce patriotism which carried into office an outstanding politician , detested by George II but destined to become one of Britain 's greatest war leaders . |
| 7 | This final glimpse of England 's greatest war criminal would be an anecdote to leave to their descendants , like a family heirloom . |
| 8 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 9 | To the English-speaking world , the Spanish Civil War of 1936–9 is familiar nowadays chiefly through the poetry of W. H. Auden , George Orwell 's classic war memoir Homage to Catalonia and , most of all perhaps , Ernest Hemingway 's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls . |
| 10 | Four people were killed and at least 200 injured in Dhaka and Chittagong during nationwide strikes on June 20 and 21 called to press for the trial of Gholam Azam , leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh , on charges of crimes committed during the country 's 1971 war of independence . |
| 11 | President , since Swan Hunter returned to the private sector in nineteen eighty six , workforce , management , trade unions , have worked together to produce the world 's finest war ships and one of the world 's finest yards . |
| 12 | In a beautifully bound and printed limited edition ( 250 copies ) of 11 of his previously unpublished war poems and 15 black and white plates , Bomberg 's devastating war experience is laid bare . |
| 13 | In a beautifully bound and printed limited edition ( 250 copies ) of 11 of his previously unpublished war poems and 15 black and white plates , Bomberg 's devastating war experience is laid bare . |
| 14 | Cambodia 's 21-year war decimated the wildlife population . |
| 15 | The ruling will also have implications for the company 's on-going war of attrition with AT&T Co . |
| 16 | This is not to say that even at this stage Edward 's principal war aim was the throne of France , but rather that the most effective way of bringing pressure to bear on Philip was to subvert the provinces and establish English military bases there . |
| 17 | It is worth looking carefully at the lettering cut deep into stone in Canberra 's vast war memorial : Australia , 8,709 ; New Zealand , 2,701 ; India , 7,597 ; France , 9,874 ; Britain , 21,255 . |
| 18 | It failed , above all , to topple Saddam Hussein , whose removal , Mr Record says , was always one of America 's chief war aims , albeit one that was not blessed by the United Nations . |
| 19 | The country 's best known Mao impersonator , an actor called Gu Yue , has made a startling comeback in a new 90-minute epic portraying the last months of China 's civil war . |
| 20 | The Djibouti government wants to avoid involvement in its neighbour 's civil war , but most Djiboutians support their Issaq Somali cousins . |
| 21 | But the viciousness of Somalia 's civil war is far outweighed by the suffering of its refugees . |
| 22 | He lost his old job as vice-president in July after suggesting that his boss , Samuel Doe , should resign to stop the country 's civil war . |
| 23 | Then came Angola 's civil war , which began before the Portuguese colonists left in 1975 . |
| 24 | A similar delay this year could spell the end of Sudan 's civil war , unless the SPLA can regroup and mend differences . |
| 25 | The lack of any precise boundaries between the three closely-interwoven ethnic groups leads most observers to believe that Bosnia 's civil war will know no bounds , with the battle front cutting through villages and streets . |
| 26 | Stories , and the whole collection , circle around the same events , reapproaching and repeating them until we see them whole and she is healed of them : the ‘ trying times ’ of Pakistan 's civil war , the deaths of her mother and best-loved sister . |
| 27 | South Central LA is one of America 's civil war zones , a suburban ghetto torn apart by drugs , where the murder rate is at an all time high and almost all the victims are black . |
| 28 | Alured 's civil war activities were concentrated in two committees : he seems to have been chairman of the committee of the East Riding , and he was an equally active member of the committee of the Northern Association ( sometimes called ‘ the committee at York ’ , though wholly distinct from the committee of Yorkshire , also at York ) . |
| 29 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 30 | Velleius Paterculus and the Latin source of the first books of Appian 's Civil War ( for which Emilio Gabba suggested the name of Asinius Pollio ) came nearer to an Italian version of Roman political history , but by the time they wrote the imperialism of the Republic had turned into the bureaucratic Empire of the Caesars : what these historians said could no longer bear fruit . |