Example sentences of "[art] [adj] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other belligerent countries , fewer women worked in munitions , but they played a significant part in the total war effort . |
| 2 | Not till the early 430s , at the acme of her power , did she manage to establish a presence at Amphipolis , and its capture by the Spartan Brasidas in 424 was one of her most damaging losses in the Archidamian War , the responsibility , if not the fault , lying at the door of the historian Thucydides , who was commanding in the area . |
| 3 | It was remarkable that in the Archidamian War the Peloponnesians abstained from destroying those Attic olive trees which were regarded as sacred to Athena ( Androtion F 39 ) . |
| 4 | And though the Archidamian War accelerated this process no doubt , Athens was at war , or Athenians were on campaign , like Phormio in Akarnania , virtually every year of the pentekontaetea . |
| 5 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 6 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 7 | The figures in Table 4 show how many of these responsibilities were eventually reduced , prior to the Korean War , but much more slowly than Keynes and others called for . |
| 8 | In the longer run the accentuation of the sterling area policy , and its apparent success , especially in the explosion of colonial dollar-earning from the time of the Korean War commodity boom , re-established the pound as a major currency , a role which seemed unlikely in 1945 . |
| 9 | The British Part in the Korean War , vol. 1 : A Distant Obligation . |
| 10 | The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War . |
| 11 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 12 | A further dimension of British policy in the Korean War is examined by Jeffrey Grey of the Historical Research Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs , Canberra : the influence of the Commonwealth . |
| 13 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 14 | A doctor who liked a life of action , as an Air Force major general he spent the Korean War years as a surgeon and during the Vietnam War flew into combat zones to help the wounded . |
| 15 | The steep post-war decline was arrested by the Korean War re-armament programme , which reached a peak of 10 per cent GDP in 1953 . |
| 16 | And as if to cap the list of failed British assumptions , the Korean War broke out in June 1950 , forcing the abandonment of the ‘ no war for ten years ’ rule and its substitution with an over-hastily generated rearmament programme , the size of which proved beyond Britain 's economic capacity . |
| 17 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 18 | The Anglo-American partnership outside Europe was put to the test when the Korean War started in June 1950 . |
| 19 | The Korean War , and more particularly the fear of a major Soviet offensive of some kind in Europe in 1953 , which killed the Ten-Year Rule , led to crash production programmes at the expense of the previous policy of giving priority to research and development . |
| 20 | The United States had already agreed under the Mutual Defence Aid Programme to provide 70 B-29 bombers ( renamed Washingtons in RAF service ) as a stopgap , and these had started to arrive in March 1950 as part of the NATO build-up in Western Europe before the Korean War began . |
| 21 | It was not without its setbacks , one of which was the Korean War rearmament programme , that resulted in premature production of two subsonic fighters as short-term stopgaps : the highly successful Hunter and the unsuccessful Swift , both of which entered RAF service in 1954 . |
| 22 | During the Korean War , Attlee made Britain 's objections to the extension of the conflict to mainland China crystal clear to Truman . |
| 23 | In developing the future size and shape of the Royal Navy , the Admiralty had two useful and recent precedents : the successful use of carrier-borne aircraft in interdicting the Chinese supply routes during the Korean War ; and the much more recent use of carriers to provide the lion 's share of tactical air support during the Suez landings , and the ad hoc use of the carriers Theseus and Ocean as Commando-helicopter-carriers in the amphibious assault on Port Said . |
| 24 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 25 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 26 | But he added that in the case of the Korean War the Allies were justified in fighting against the communists . |
| 27 | Nearly three million people died in the Korean War . |
| 28 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 29 | Catch 22 , though ostensibly about World War II , was in fact largely concerned with the Korean War and the state of mind prevailing in the Fifties . |
| 30 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |