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Example sentences for "war against"

  • Sanctions can only be imposed on a State which is not a Member of the League if it refuses to accept the conditions and obligations of the Protocol when invited to do so, and resorts to war against a signatory State.

  • If the State so invited, having refused to accept the said conditions and obligations, resorts to war against a signatory State, the provisions of Article 16 of the Covenant, as defined by the present Protocol, shall be applicable against it.

  • When the American soldier went to war against Germany he took his appetite with him.

  • I wage no war against Pomerania, nor against the German empire, but against the enemies of both.

  • Charnasse, an unsuspected agent of the Cardinal, proceeded to Polish Prussia, where Gustavus Adolphus was conducting the war against Sigismund, and alternately visited these princes, in order to persuade them to a truce or peace.

  • It happened just then that the Duke of Savoy, an ally of the Union, demanded assistance in a war against Spain.

  • Immediately after the French declaration of war against us, Parliament addressed the king in support of the war against them, as just and necessary, and provoked, as well as formally declared against Great Britain.

  • Juvencius Thalna, praetor, proposes to the Roman commissioners a declaration of war against Rhodes, and is opposed by the tribunes, 21.

  • Marcus Antonius, endeavoured to raise a war against him in Asia, and was slain by one of Antonius's generals.

  • Yet the senate had decreed, and the people ordered, war against Antiochus, not against the Gauls.

  • Hippocrates, in conjunction with the Carthaginians, carries on war against Marcellus, xxiv.

  • It was a war against an unseen and cunning foe, which required ceaseless vigilance and painstaking effort.

  • The growth of Pan-Slavism finally resulted in April, 1877, in Russia's declaration of war against Turkey.

  • Streit tendencies opposed to those supported by me, is the wish not to displease Germany by undertaking a war against Turkey in co-operation with Powers hostile to her.

  • This was the meaning of the phrase one came to hear on many lips, that it was "a war against war.

  • The members of the League agree that they will carry out in full good faith any award that may be rendered, and that they will not resort to war against a member of the League which complies therewith.

  • The first test came in his answer to the invitation to join Bulgaria and {38} Servia within three days in a war against Turkey.

  • Greece alone would never have been able to wage a war against Turkey.

  • Mobilization, however, is bound to follow if Russia does not stop every measure of war against us and against Austria-Hungary within 12 hours and notifies us definitely to this effect.

  • Russia replied to a partial Austrian mobilisation and declaration of war against Servia by a partial Russian mobilisation against Austria.

  • We have therefore declared the threatening state of war which is bound to be followed by mobilization unless Russia stops within 12 hours all measures of war against us and Austria.

  • For it was not until we were certain that Germany had committed what was tantamount to an act of war against us, by invading the neutral state of Belgium, that we delivered the ultimatum which led to the war.

  • He also hoped to gain popularity by prosecuting a war against Spain, whose king was energetically supporting the Catholic League in Germany.

  • The Visconti family having died out, the citizens hired a certain captain, named Francesco Sforza, to assist them in a war against Venice, whose possessions now extended almost to those of Milan.

  • The pope decided that his mission was one of peace and that he could not afford to join in a war against Austria, the stoutest ally of the Roman church.

  • The gates were closed, and every arrangement and preparation made for repelling an attack; so completely had the consciousness of what they deserved produced the same effect as a declaration of war against them.

  • This was the fourth year since the declaration of war against Macedonia.

  • The greatest danger is, that, by our too great readiness to pardon the conquered, we may encourage others to try the fortune of war against us.

  • This Longarus had, in his own quarrel, supported a war against Demetrius, father of Philip.

  • He's got some reason for it,' said Aileen sorrowfully.

  • Jim's old enough and big enough to take care of himself,' I said sulkily.

  • He'll get "fitted" quite simple some day if he doesn't keep a better look-out.

  • We finished our meal, and a first-rate one it was.


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