The apprehensions ofcivil war were at length removed, by the positive assurance of the Magi, that the widow of Hormouz had conceived, and would safely produce a son.
During the 7th century the Lombards in Italy were lazy and divided; the Goths in Spain lazier and more divided still; the Franks were tearing themselves in pieces by civil war.
Such words meant murder, pillage, civil war, dethronement, general anarchy; and so Dietrich threw Pope John into prison.
He exhorted Charles to be firm: he exhorted James to raise a civil war in Scotland: he exhorted the Whigs not to flinch, and to rely with confidence on the protection of France.
The slightest provocation might, under such circumstances, have produced a civil war; but neither side dared to strike the first blow.
Since the great northern Earls took up arms against Elizabeth seventy years had elapsed; and during those seventy years there had been no civil war.
It is no exaggeration to say that a civil war of a week on English ground would now produce disasters which would be felt from the Hoang-ho to the Missouri, and of which the traces would be discernible at the distance of a century.
Consequently the economy has shown little progress in recent years in overcoming a severe setback brought on by civil war in the late 1980s.
Syria's deployment was legitimized by the Arab League early in Lebanon's civil warand in the Ta'if accord.
Per capita consumption dropped an estimated 35% over the last six years because of recession, civil war, and a high population growth rate (including immigrants and refugees).
Its economy is burdened by the ravages of civil war, conflict with Libya, drought, and food shortages.
A renewal of civil war in 1904 seemed altogether preferable to an indefinite continuance of this dualism in government, even at the risk of friction with Argentina, which was charged with not having observed strict neutrality.
Still more menacing was the attitude of the United States now that its civil war was at an end.
In 1861, however, the outbreak of civil war in the United States appeared to present a favorable opportunity to obtain protection from abroad.
It looked like the end of my career, for I did not suppose that "civil war" could give me an employment that would provide for the family.
The queen took her daughter Mary to Holland to marry the Prince of Orange; and there she bought muskets and gunpowder for her husband's army--for things had come to pass now that a civil war began.
Archbishop Sharpe was dragged out of his carriage and killed, and then there was a civil war, in which the king's men prevailed; but the Whigs were harshly treated, and there was great discontent.
A civil war is the worst of all wars, for it is one between the people of the same country.
There would probably have been in all the three kingdoms a civil war as long and fierce as that of the preceding generation.
From this position, so new, so embarrassing, so alarming, nothing but a counterrevolution or a civil war in the British Islands could extricate him.
It destroyed administrations, broke up parties, made all government in one part of the empire impossible, and at length brought us to the verge of civil war.
I begin a civil war among my people when for aught I know the enemy is at our gates?
He had gone out into the highways, risking his life at every turn, penetrating into bandit- infested provinces in the throes of civil war, suffering incredible hardships and fatigues and, never sparing himself.
Lincoln went on: "I have to make a decision which may bring war--civil war.
Remember, too, that it will be civil war--kin against kin, brother against brother.
You feel as I do about the horror of war, and above all the horrors of civil war.
Was the war which followed secession, and which cost so many lives and so much treasure, a civil war or a foreign war?
In civil war, the victory won by the government troops is held to be a victory for the country, in which all parties are victors, and nobody is vanquished.
In spite of the destruction of property in Lawrence and the arrest of the leaders of the free-state party, Kansas had not been plunged into a state of civil war.
Kansas was plunged into a state of civil war, but it is quite probable that this condition would have followed the looting of Lawrence even if John Brown had been absent from the Territory.
If you madly persevere, Kansas will not be without her William Tell, who will refuse at all hazards to recognize the tyrannical edict; and this will be the beginning of civil war.
Slavery as a legally recognized institution disappeared with the Civil War.
The opposing parties then stood in hostile array against each other, and any accident might have relighted the flames of civil war.
Should this opportunity be rejected she may be involved for years in domestic discord, and possibly in civil war, before she can again make up the issue now so fortunately tendered and again reach the point she has already attained.
This decision of the ballot box proved clearly that this party were in the majority, and removed the danger of civil war.
The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
But the country was a prey to civil war, and it was hoped that the success of the constitutional President might lead to a condition of things less injurious to the United States.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil war" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
