war is the science of destruction. From LearnThat.org. [John Abbott (1821-1893).]
The war on poverty. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The war against crime. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Thousands of people were killed in the war. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A price war. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A war of wits. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
QUOTATION: war, war is still the cry, war even to the knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
Drogheda (+ war crimes), Wexford (+war crimes), Clonmel (Pyrrhic); (Scotland) Dunbar. From Wordnik.com. [The RBC] Reference
George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (17881824) (continued) 5591War, war is still the cry, war even to the knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
24War, war is still the cry, war even to the knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
Remember, he told us we can't use the term war on terror. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2009] Reference
The loss of “innocent” lives in war is although horrific, inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Uh, Senator… « BuzzMachine] Reference
KING: You work now in an administration that doesn't like the term war on terror. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2009] Reference
The term war is rather a misnomer in this connection, as it does not express the idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
In other words, the word war was a violation of their identity or “who they were.”. From Wordnik.com. [Egonomics] Reference
"Sacrifice" in war is a good in and of itself; NASA is mythology in the form of a government program. From Wordnik.com. [Space: The Final Caliphate « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
I mean, the term war is used, and the poet once said, "wars are easy to get into, but hard to get out of.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001] Reference
Sadly, I realize that innocent people are killed every day in war zones – but the objective in a war is “VICTORY”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers] Reference
The term war, embraces the extremes of human misery and iniquity, and is alike the offspring of the one and the parent of the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Antiwar Libertarians and the Reification of the State:] Reference
In a moment, the president on why he doesn't like the term war on terror, and a progress report on his private battle with cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009] Reference
Of all the forms of slavery that have existed throughout history, forcing someone to fight and die in war is by far the most disgusting …. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Draft: A Moral Abomination | Disinformation] Reference
HENRY: They have set up what they call a war room. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008] Reference
This term war has been used before in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Trying Bin Laden] Reference
"That's what I call a war," Teodoro said after the fight. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
I wanted answers and they wanted Blair to pay for what they called war crimes. From Wordnik.com. [War Is A Crime .org] Reference
They should have been prohibited from bringing back what they call war trophies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2004] Reference
He chose -- and he has -- his policy has been not to use this term war on terror. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2009] Reference
Gleason and others, with what he called war records, were still second lieutenants. From Wordnik.com. [A Wounded Name] Reference
The conflict among human groups, which we call war, has had an immense effect upon human social evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Sociology and Modern Social Problems] Reference
In other words, the struggle between groups which we call war was occasioned very largely by numbers and food supply. From Wordnik.com. [Sociology and Modern Social Problems] Reference
VELEZ MITCHELL: Anchor woman, Anne Pressly, and teacher, Leah Walsh, both casualties of what I call the war on women. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008] Reference
BLITZER: And he was questioning the U.S. commitment to the -- to what we call the war on terror, is that what you're saying?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2009] Reference
Bob, when we talked with Major Garrett, he said that, frankly, it's very clear that the White House is on what he called war footing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001] Reference
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