Example sentences of "state for war " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the outbreak of war , Prime Minister Asquith formed a coalition government and Herbert Horatio Kitchener — who had been Commander-in-Chief during the Boer wars — was appointed Secretary of State for War . |
| 2 | There were also in the Government , the Secretary at War and the Secretary of State for War . |
| 3 | On 29th March a deputation of thirteen architects representing the Institute met Manners and General Peel , the new Secretary of State for War , at the Office of Works to reinforce the Memorials . |
| 4 | Churchill , as Secretary of State for War , saw no need to veto a tunnel on military grounds and the Home Ports Defence Committee concluded that it could be defended from attack , albeit at high cost . |
| 5 | secretary of state for war |
| 6 | Others , notably Field Marshal Lord Kitchener , newly appointed Secretary of State for War , advocated concentrating it around Amiens . |
| 7 | The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army , Grand Duke Nicholas , then appealed to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener , British Secretary of State for War . |
| 8 | Lloyd George , recently re-elected , had been issued an invitation , but it was unlikely that he would attend , but certainly Austen Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Winston Churchill , the Secretary of State for War might attend . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State for War , John Seely , was also a favourite target , for he too was a renegade Unionist . |
| 10 | He was directly answerable to the British Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , but also reported to the Prime Minister , Winston Churchill , and the Secretary of State for War , Sir James Grigg . |
| 11 | Macmillan 's second report was a letter dated 18 May " to Sir James Grigg , Secretary of State for War , also found at Birch Grove [ KP 178 ] . |
| 12 | Secretary of State for War , 24 August 1944 ] |
| 13 | The Secretary of State for War , Sir James Grigg , summarised the arguments on both sides in a letter to Eden on 24 August [ KP 9 ] : We are in an obvious dilemma . |
| 14 | But there was one other very significant implication of the repatriation policy which Sir James Grigg , as Secretary of State for War with responsibility for the Army , had in mind from an early stage of the discussions . |
| 15 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 16 | That autumn , while a youthful Mick Jagger was enrolling at the London School of Economics , Gordon met Christine Keeler at Notting Hill 's Rio Cafe , and Keeler was in mid-affair with John Profumo , the Conservative Government 's Secretary of State for War . |
| 17 | Then , at one o'clock , all the Liberal ministers with the exception of the Secretary of State for War assembled . |
| 18 | Lord Birkenhead , who lunched with Lord Derby ( the Secretary of State for War in Baldwin 's Cabinet ) on 10 December , told him that Baldwin would resign , that the King would then send for Lord Balfour , the only living Conservative ex-Prime Minister , to seek advice . |