(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
(n.) Instruments of war.
(n.) Forces; army.
(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
Warre
Definition:
(a.) Worse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(2) Aspects of job causing stress, job satisfaction (Warr, Cook, and Wall scale), and mental health (Crown-Crisp experiential index).
(3) The wine list featured French and South African choices, as well as 1977 Warre’s Vintage Port.
(4) Warr wanted UCL to withdraw its objections, then Falcon could “make an immediate impact with the Emiratis … I do not envisage involving Lord Deighton at this stage unless it has already reached crisis point”.
(5) Perhaps mindful of the Queen's passion for horses, Olwyn Bowey has presented a painting of a pony called Susie, while other works include Grayson Perry's design for his Kenilworth AM I motorbike, as seen at the British Museum; Michael Manser's designs for the Queen's Suite at Heathrow airport; Anthony Eyton's painting of Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) in Australia; Zaha Hadid's design for the Olympic aquatics centre; an Anthony Caro chalk drawing of a seated male nude; and a collage from Richard Wilson representing his homage to The Italian Job at Bexhill-on-Sea when he put a teetering coach on top of the De La Warr pavilion .
(6) Richard Wilson's coach installation Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea … on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
(7) We need to address the problems we face – but also to celebrate the great people who are going to make a difference.” Bridget Warr, chief executive of the UK Homecare Association, agreed.
(8) At the table David Brindle (Chair) Public services editor, the Guardian Sharon Allen Chief executive, Skills for Care Pete Calveley Chief executive, Barchester Healthcare Michelle Dudderidge Director, Hand in Hands Shaks Ghosh Chief executive, Clore Social Leadership Programme Patrick Vernon Project coordinator, Health Partnership Project, National Housing Federation Martin Green Chief executive, Care England Ray James President, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England Des Kelly Executive director, National Care Forum John Kennedy Director of care services, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Neil Matthewman Chief executive, Community Integrated Care John Ransford Non-executive director, HC-One Jon Glasby Professor of health and social care, University of Birmingham Bridget Warr Chief executive, UK Home Care Association There was a recognition from participants that there were some great leaders in social care – but that there was room for improvement, too.
(9) The locations of cochlear efferent cell bodies are in general agreement with the medial and lateral systems described by White and Warr (J. Comp.
(10) With free HRP as the tracer of choice, we found that cochlear efferent cells were located not only in the ipsilateral LSO body and bilaterally within MVPO and RPO as already described by White and Warr, but also surrounding the ipsilateral LSO and in the ipsilateral LVPO.
(11) Present at the July 2013 meeting with Blair was Martyn Warr, a director of UK Trade and Investment who used to be a former counter-terrorism official at the Foreign Office.
(12) We are vulnerable as a country to people getting private access to ministers for not too much money.” A spokesman for the Conservative party said: “All donations to the Conservative party are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with Electoral Commission rules.” The home secretary was placed with Lord de la Warr, director of Cluff Natural Resources, which is exploring underground coal gassification in Warwickshire, as well as Wafic Said, the Syrian-Saudi businessman who helped broker the al-Yamamah arms deal.
(13) According to Westminster sources, Warr went to see Manchester city council’s chief executive Howard Bernstein in June 2013, claiming he had a “message from the prime minister” to sell the idea of the UAE investing in Manchester.
(14) These patterns correspond closely to the lateral and medial superior olivary complex (SOC) olivocochlear systems identified by Warr and Guinan ('79, Brain Res.
(15) In addition to this indirect pathway, there is a small direct pathway to the contralateral LSO as suggested by Goldberg and Brown ('69) and Warr ('72, '82).
(16) The locations of the labeled neurons are consistent with a classification as cells of the medial olivocochlear system [Warr and Guinan (1979): Brain Res.
(17) Shortlisting panel John Mathers , Design Council Sandie Keene , director of adult social services Leeds council and president, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Dr Richard Preece , Allied Healthcare Bridget Robb , the British Association of Social Workers Alan Long , Mears Bridget Warr , UK Homecare Association Julia Skelton , Council of Occupational Therapists Ruthe Isden , Age UK Kathryn Smith , Alzheimer's Society Jon Rouse , Department of Health Why not join our community?
(18) Such cells were found at the same locations described in 1983 by White and Warr (ipsilateral superior olivary nucleus (LSO), bilateral latero-ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body (LTz) bilateral group E medial and lateral to the genu facialis) and, in addition, bilaterally in the caudal pontine reticular nucleus (CPR) at the level of the descending facial nerve.
(19) Warr was also instrumental in getting the UAE to donate £60m to the world-famous Great Ormond Street hospital in July 2014.
(20) And, in an Italian Job moment of high farce, he has balanced a bus on the parapet of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill, and left it teetering in the breeze.