The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

Here the war would flame to its focus, and here Lewis Littlepage had come.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

He had put it down in a war novel, The Day Of The Lion.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

His policies had resolved the conflicts that threatened to ignite the cold war and workable solutions were beginning to take shape.

Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

There would be great need soon for his skill as surgeon, but somehow he had not planned to use his knowledge merely for war.

The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

Allied air superiority became a significant hindrance to German operations during the later years of the war.

It is also significant that Germany ’ s position in the centre of Europe to a large extent obviated the need to make a clear distinction between bombers suitable only for ’ tactical ’ and those necessary for strategic purposes in the early stages of a likely future war.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

The most significant problem facing Attlee and his ministers remained the economy, as the war effort had left Britain nearly bankrupt.

The factors that were shown to have a statistically significant effect on the chance that a civil war would occur in any given five-year period were:

Higher male secondary school enrollment, per capita income and economic growth rate all had significant effects on reducing the chance of civil war.

However, the combined effects of ethnic and religious fractionalization, i. e. the more chance that any two randomly chosen people will be from separate ethnic or religious groups the less chance of a civil war, were also significant and positive, as long as the country avoided ethnic dominance.

The most significant impact from this war was the settling of large numbers of Loyalist refugees in the region, especially in Shelburne and Parrtown ( Saint John ).

The most significant incident from this war which occurred in the Maritimes was the British capture and detention of the American frigate USS Chesapeake in Halifax.

In the first significant engagement of the war, the town of Béziers was besieged on 22 July 1209.

For service not related to actual war, the term " duty of a great responsibility " applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war, and requires evidence of conspicuously significant achievement.

For service not related to actual war, the term " duty of a great responsibility " applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of a conspicuously significant achievement.

As the war had ended with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the United States, operating under the Articles of Confederation, resisted any significant action with respect to Vermont, Allen's historic role as an agitator became less important, and his public role in Vermont's affairs declined.

Conducted during the war years, into the 1950s, under tightly controlled conditions, they produced highly significant results suggestive of precognitive telepathy.

Of these, Humphrey Jennings ' trilogy of war films – Listen to Britain ( 1942 ), Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) and A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 )-are generally regarded as the most artistically significant.

Also, significant numbers of British, and later U. S., fighter aircraft were supplied to aid the Soviet war effort as part of Lend-Lease, with the Bell P-39 Airacobra proving particularly effective in the lower-altitude combat typical of the Eastern Front.

The only group with significant knowledge of the Ancients are isolated robots and other artificial intelligences that survived the war — though these machines tend to be damaged, in ill-repair, or hostile to organic beings.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

Growing community unrest about the draft, the rising tide of casualties and social debate about the moral rectitude of the war fuelled the first significant stirrings of organised domestic opposition, such as the influential community anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons.

On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 40 – 50 miles from Moscow, the Wehrmacht's first significant defeat of the war.

During his reign, there was a significant increase in the size of the Mughal Empire, half a dozen rebellions were crushed, prisoners of war were released, and the work of his father, Akbar, continued to flourish.