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Example sentences for "foreign wars"

  • Foreign wars: that against the Jews, which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, A.

  • Foreign wars: War in Africa against the leaders of the democratic faction, Cn.

  • The foregoing period is composed of the history of foreign wars alone; in this, on the contrary, Rome appears in a continual state of internal commotion.

  • A revolution caused thereby in Egypt, the inhabitants of which were averse to foreign wars, carried on mostly by mercenary aliens: the revolution headed by Amasis.

  • It is not always necessary to accumulate gold and silver, in order to enable a country to carry on foreign wars, and to maintain fleets and armies in distant countries.

  • But it is otherwise, they think, with countries which have connections with foreign nations, and which are obliged to carry on foreign wars, and to maintain fleets and armies in distant countries.

  • Why formerly unable to carry on foreign wars of long duration, 180.

  • Not yet were they so hardy as to shed the blood of their countrymen, nor had they known any but foreign wars, and secession from their own was deemed the extreme of rage.

  • Intestine dissensions, foreign wars, caused the republic to require such a magistrate.

  • If the constitution gives Congress any power to carry on foreign wars, those powers must be collected from expressions it contains, or from some clear and necessary implication from something that is therein expressed.

  • Many arguments cannot be necessary to show the tendency of foreign wars to destroy liberty.

  • An aversion to standing armies was among the causes that induced the Declaration of Independence; without standing armies, it was then believed, and we now know full well, foreign wars cannot be carried on.

  • In the view I have given of our connection with foreign powers allusions have been made to their domestic disturbances or foreign wars, to their revolutions or dissensions.

  • The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wars to aid an inexcusable insurrection have been unavailing.

  • As such we may often kindly mediate in their behalf without entangling ourselves in foreign wars or unnecessary controversies.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foreign affairs; foreign articles; foreign bills; foreign countries; foreign debt; foreign enemy; foreign influence; foreign interference; foreign investment; foreign language; foreign languages; foreign markets; foreign ministers; foreign ports; foreign power; foreign stamps; foreign tongue; foreign troops; foreign vessels; must remark; never more; plane surfaces; pounds pressure; the ground; warm countries; you little