Sentences with phrase «went to war in»

As you noted, there had been global conflicts previously (from the mid 1700's on through Waterloo), but the speed and almost automated manner in which the beligerants went to war in 1914 was unprecedented, though hardly unimaginable.

BTW, if oil is a national security issue, and we went to war in the Middle East over this, why then do we allow an oil company to profit on this, when it should be controlled by the government?

Jessica Hines was 8 years old when her older brother went to war in Vietnam.

I've spent entire weeks of my life listening to «Pon Pon Pata Pon» as my tribes went to war in the fantastic Patapon series.

The consequences of his choice won't be clear for decades, but it already is abundantly apparent in mid-2006 that the U.S. government went to war in Iraq with scant solid international support and on the basis of incorrect information — about weapons of mass destruction and a supposed nexus between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda's terrorism — and then occupied the country negligently.

When America went to war in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hollywood did too: Marquee film directors, struck by patriotism, became officers overnight and shipped out to the front lines with cameras, mounting their own propaganda campaigns.

Helping him along in this journey is his liberal girlfriend Lindsay (Shailene Woodley, Divergent), who challenges him on his first date to question the reasons we went to war in Iraq.

«Of 700,000 who went to war in 1990, 250,000 came back with chronic illness,» she says.

Governments of the self - styled «coalition of the willing» went to war in the teeth of domestic opposition so massive and mobilised the New York Times dubbed it «the second superpower».

I personally can not stand Islamic fundamentalists as well as American right wing Christians who went to war in Iraq.

Sean McMeekin's July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books) lays primary blame on Austria - Hungary; Christopher Clarke's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Harper) and Max Hastings» Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Knopf) spread the responsibility around, with both Clarke and Hastings assigning Wilhelmine Germany the decisive role amidst a desperately inept performance by the Great Powers.

No one was hurt in the collision, which happened near uninhabited Aegean islets over which Turkey and Greece nearly went to war in 1996.

Major U.S. corporations are going to war in Washington over a Republican «border adjustment» tax proposal meant to boost exports over imports.

He added: «I was not a big fan of going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan, for several reasons, several practical reasons.

In the summer of 2015, the activist hedge fund founded by Paul Singer had gone to war in the Republic of Samsung to stop the South Korean conglomerate from going through with what Singer considered to be an unfair deal.

Next the economy was hobbled by President H W Bush balancing the budget by signing a tax increase and going to war in Kuwait.

The decision to go to war in Canada is the exclusive domain of the federal cabinet, but the Conservatives have made it practise to consult the House of Commons.

In a 2006 Scripps Howard / Ohio University poll, 36 percent said it was «very likely» or «somewhat likely» that «federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them because «they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East».»

Broadcast bias resulted in significant national misperceptions about a major political policy issue — going to war in Iraq.

I take offense to that portion of your comment because because I am a US Marine and have been one for a long time and have served in combat and none of us remotely said or thought we were going to war in the name of God, so you are not only bearing false witness, you are also condemning military service (Exodus 20 and Matthew 22; Matthew 7:1 - 3) without understanding that many join the military because of the poor job markets.

I didn't have WWII or the Nazis in mind when I wrote this post... As for Christians going to war in the name of God, the Iraqi war is an example, though I didn't have that war in mind either.

I am a Christian and am thoroughly knowledge in the Scriptures, but I must disagree with you that Christians worship Satan by going to war in the name of God.

Would God say, «No, I am not going to listen to the prayers of such and such a group, because they wiped out nations in my name, because they build unjust social structures in my name, because they have gone to war in my name, because they don't call me by the «right» name, or simply because their doctrines do not quite correspond to who I am»?

Many critics of the U.S. plans for going to war in Iraq point to oil as a motive.

painting all Muslims with the same brush is just wrong Bush said God told him to go to war in Iraq - that means Bush was lying or insane b / c God did not tell Bush to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqies just to get one man.

We go to war in the name of liberating people from dictators, and frequently, the new leaders placed in power are just as corrupt and destructive as those which were removed.

Aubameyang and Bailly won't be the last arrivals and City and United respectively, provided that they do complete moves, as Mourinho and Guardiola, along with the likes of Jurgen Klopp, Antonio Conte and Arsene Wenger draw their battle lines in the summer transfer market first before going to war in the Premier League next season.

«The decision to go to war in Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power in a coalition of over 40 countries led by the USA, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising decision I took in 10 years as British prime minister.

To repeat again, we did not go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq to promote democracy.

Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead of a difficult time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European election campaign.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have formally agreed to go to war in the Commons over boundary changes while keeping the rest of the coalition intact.

Even if explicit Congressional approval is not necessarily required for the US to go to war in accordance with Article 5, Congress could certainly prevent or halt such US military action: by refusing to declare war, refusing War Powers Act authorization, or cutting off funding.

The shadow cabinet yesterday discussed David Cameron's plan to go to war in Syria.

Jeb Bush has taken heat from some Republicans and Democrats this week over comments he made in a Fox News interview about his brother's decision to go to war in Iraq.

After all, even Tony Blair's disastrous and unpopular decision to go to war in Iraq did not stop him winning a third election term.

So I now apologise sincerely on behalf of my party for the disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq in March 2003.»

David Miliband attempted to shift the focus of the Labour leadership debate away from the Iraq conflict yesterday, after two of his main rivals criticised the decision to go to war in 2003.

But since the decision to go to war in the Iraq things have got gradually worse for Labour and more importantly for Britain as well.

Britain's armed forces would have to go to war in Syria if Bashar al - Assad's regime collapses, the outgoing head of the UK's military has warned.

An independent Scotland would scrap Trident and would not have gone to war in Iraq, the SNP promised.

The Tory leader also said he still believed it was right to go to war in Iraq and that Britain must «see it through».

For some, the decision to go to war in Iraq meant they became estranged from former colleagues who remained in government.

Was the Paul On» Neill backing Trump the former Bush Cabinet member who exposed Lil» Bush's phony reasons for going to war in Iraq... or the hack who played for the Yanks?

Tony Blair's reputation «bled to death in the sands of Iraq» after he unleashed «chaos» by going to war in the country, senior Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott has said.

Ed Miliband The younger Miliband has won support from the left by calling for the retention of the 50p tax rate, opposing a third runway at Heathrow and criticising the decision to go to war in Iraq.

On 8 July I received an email from Jeremy apologising for Labour's decision to go to war in Iraq.

Two former heads of the civil service have disputed Tony Blair's claim that the cabinet were involved in the decision to go to war in Iraq.

Mr Miliband said she had been right to reduce state ownership in certain areas (noting that «the state ran Pickfords removals and the Gleneagles Hoteland to go to war in the Falklands but he added:

Iain Dale wrote a short but exasperated blog post late last night in which he expressed his frustration at the Conservatives» failure to oppose the Government on two measures yesterday: the part - privatisation of the Post Office and the blocking of the release of Cabinet minutes discussing the decision to go to war in Iraq.

Asked by one of the women, whose voice is disguised, about former Labour prime minister Tony Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq, Lord Sewel says the ex-party leader did so «because he fell in love with George Bush».