`` But that was war '', I said.

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

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

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.

But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

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

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.

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

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will not only lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.

It would give him an opportunity to take the measure of his chief adversary in the cold war, to try to probe Mr. Khrushchev's intentions and to make clear his own views.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

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.

We deliberately use the phrase " with the addition of other means " because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, through General Stilwell, privately made it clear that they preferred that the French not reacquire French Indochina ( modern day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos ) after the war was over.

In a Marxist society geared up for war, there are no clear lines separating officials, soldiers and civilians.

The main purpose of the Red and White terror was to destroy the power structure of the opponent, clear and secure the areas governed by the armies since the beginning of the war and the areas seized and occupied by the common units during the conflict.

While outside aid or even troops can be helpful, lack of clear limits, in terms of either a realistic plan for victory or exit strategy, may find the foreign helper " taking over " the local war, and being sucked into a lengthy commitment, thus providing the guerrillas with valuable propaganda opportunities as the toll of dead foreigners mounts.

In 1640, with the war in central Europe having no clear winner except the French, both Portugal and Catalonia rebelled.

When this failed and Barcelona fell to the Nationalists in early 1939, it was clear the war was over.

In the last days of the war, when it became clear that Hitler planned to die in Berlin, Himmler left his long-time superior to try to save himself.

Strategically ( and perhaps understandably in their own traditional tribal context ) they lacked any clear vision of fighting their most challenging war, aside from smashing the three British columns by the weight and speed of their regiments.

However, an important consideration, which King Cetshwayo appreciated, was that there was a clear difference between defending one's territory, and encroaching on another, regardless of the fact that they are at war with the holder of that land.

The war opened Sartre's eyes to a political reality he had not yet understood until forced into continual engagement with it: " the world itself destroyed Sartre's illusions about isolated self-determining individuals and made clear his own personal stake in the events of the time " ( Aronson 1980: 108 ).

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

Although some suggested that the diamond should have been presented as a gift to the Queen, it is clear that Dalhousie felt strongly that the stone was a spoil of war, and treated it accordingly.

The information above about the People's Militia is dated circa 1987 ; it is not clear whether the force still existed by the time of the 2011 civil war.

At the end of the war, the British gave clear indications that power would be transferred to Indian hands.

It is used to clear paths through the bush, and was used to fight against the Brazilian Empire in the Farrapos ' war ( War of Tatters ).

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There was the clear implication ( though it was not explicitly stated ) that this was the result of a nuclear war hundreds or thousands of years before the time of the plot.

This requires some retconning — Spenser stopped making reference to his military service in the Korean War as an eighteen-year-old, as he did in the first novels — although in 2006's Hundred Dollar Baby Spenser mentions being on " R and R " in Japan before going back to the war, although exactly which war is not made clear.