Example sentences of "war was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the legacy of the war was a huge current account deficit , with exports in 1945 at only 30 per cent of their prewar level ( imports 60 per cent ) , and shipping earnings substantially diminished . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 4 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 5 | One of the arguments for first developing nuclear energy in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War was a predicted shortage of coal . |
| 6 | Dorset after the war was a whole new field for me . |
| 7 | Indeed , even going into a war was a welcome escape from my poorish Higher Certificate results . |
| 8 | ‘ The way we won that war was a BLAST , but compared to Rambo or even Vietnam , it was a real SNORE ! … |
| 9 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 10 | But the essential conservatism of UDC thinking is revealed in the fact that , apart from a footnote on women 's suffrage , the only addition made to a platform written within weeks of the outbreak of war was a commitment to the defence of free trade . |
| 11 | Actually , ’ she said , warming to her subject , ‘ I think the war was a good thing for a lot of men . |
| 12 | The military map of Spain at the start of the Civil War was a complex one , with both zones split into two : that of the rebels by a Republican-held strip in Extremadura , and that of the Republic owing to the isolation of the north coast . |
| 13 | THE Vietnam war was a glorious time for the world 's press ( see page 118 ) , and in its collective memory Indochina remains permeated with glamour , blood and drugs . |
| 14 | For both Chesterton and Williamson the first World War was a searing experience which provided lasting images of heroism , horror , comradeship , leadership and fear . |
| 15 | Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war . |
| 16 | If war was a continuation of legal proceedings over rights by other means , then those legal proceedings were a result of the treaty of 1259 . |
| 17 | The legacy of the war was a powerful one , both for politicians and for the group of academics who were attempting to study the phenomena of international relations . |
| 18 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 19 | War was a means of restoring justice to society . |
| 20 | In such circumstances , war was a necessary and final punishment imposed upon a recalcitrant vassal who had ignored all calls to obey his feudal lord . |
| 21 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 22 | Yet , although making war was a fairly routine element in the life of an active nobleman , it was very rare indeed that one was killed ; partly because , in the face of danger , a noble could don his expensive and effective armour , his helmet and coat of mail ; and partly because his opponents did not try to kill him — if he should be so unfortunate as to be at their mercy they preferred to capture him and ransom him . |
| 23 | The war was a dislocating experience for the group in other ways too , disrupting families , interrupting working careers , sometimes precipitating emigration . |
| 24 | ‘ But the war was a different country , Opal . |
| 25 | And the period after the First World War was a watershed in the battle against oppressive hours of working . |
| 26 | For some the Second World War was a time of extensive travel with tours of duty in , for example , North America or India presenting novel opportunities and providing the determination and individual confidence to repeat the experience in peace-time . |
| 27 | War was a recourse for Spaniards hoping eventually for radical solutions to Spain 's long term economic and political problems . " |
| 28 | As indicated above , the Spanish Civil War was a deeply felt experience for Neruda , also for Octavio Paz , César Vallejo , David Siquieros and others . |
| 29 | For instance , you find the chief of staff of the Pakistani army , which has forces in Saudi Arabia , saying that the war was a Zionist plot , and the Moroccan government , which has troops in the Gulf , supporting a general strike against the war . |
| 30 | The cold war was a way of organising global relations . |