Sentences with phrase «victory than war»

It may well be a quicker route to victory than war.

Not exact matches

The resultant maelstrom of violence massively weakened the USSR rather than strengthening it, but the ultimate victory of Soviet forces in World War II appeared to justify the Terror.

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

At war's end, something would begin to happen to the rest of America, too: something that would take more than a decade to manifest itself but that had probably been brewing — as Norman Mailer might say, in the American psychic underground — since the first heady days of victory.

According to them seven conditions must coincide to make a war just: the cause fought for must itself be just; the purpose of the warring power must remain just while hostilities go on; war must be truly the last resort, all peaceful means having been exhausted; the methods employed during the war to vanquish the foe must themselves be just; the benefits the war can reasonably be expected to bring for humanity must be greater than the evils provoked by the war itself; victory must be assured; the peace concluded at the end of the war must be just and of such nature as to prevent a new war.

So, after clinging on for a full five years Major goes to the polls, Smith wins with ease, presiding over a Labour majority of 150, an even bigger margin of victory than that achieved by Clement Attlee after World War II.

But, this is a larger swing than the Conservatives have managed since the war; Margaret Thatcher's famous victory in 1979 was achieved with a swing of 5.3 %.

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen books, including No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure — two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize — winning classic The Killer Angels.

Centuries lie between the present - day soldiers and the duke, but the implication is clear: the glorious victories on which his reputation and family fortune were built are no less traumatic and horrific than the wars of today.

It's almost axiomatic that between two bodies, wealth will always be greater if there exists a state of trade between the two than if there exists a state of war even if one is the victory.