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    1. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress


    2. When the giants had crushed the outer walls of Svellgard, the war was over


    3. Acwellan the Kinslayer, so named because of its use in Vald's war against the neighboring Blacktooth giants


    4. Again I see my father-in-law, who has been dead for a good ten years, showing me the thing and telling me how he was given it by a German soldier he had taken into custody during the war


    5. How do we justify the exploitation of poor, wastage of food, raping women, killing people, settling disputes through war, grabbing land to build temples, churches, mosques in God’s name and minting money on the name of faith and so on


    6. He carved them on after the war at about the time that he disabled the thing


    7. ‘It was something he brought home after the war


    8. Peppy sat down on his rear, though it seemed to Violet like a war horse rearing his legs in the air


    9. Brasil had launched three bussards just before the war


    10. It was to end violently, by a rogue asteroid, just after the mother world had been destroyed by war

    11. about war came to me when my father took a strong dislike to my mother’s collection


    12. After the war, I just wanted


    13. think of those starving kids in Africa or the poor maimed sods in war zones


    14. He joined the army during the war and very quickly rose through the ranks – nothing particularly splendid - but in the process, he became very close friends with a guy who lived in Dorset


    15. Once hostilities ceased, Dad went to visit Bob’s family – his own having been bombed out during the Blitz – and fell in love with Bob’s sister … by this time he had decided that he wanted to train as a teacher – there was a big demand for men to do that after the war, you know


    16. His sister never married – her fiancé was killed in the war, I believe – and she spent her life looking after their parents


    17. "With four times Earth's population, or at least four times Earth's population before the war


    18. She wanted to ask what an Eye was and what a Kassikan was but would get to that, more immediately she asked, "And how could that cause a war back home?"


    19. "The Heavenly Mother, they left a generation before all-out war, in 2348


    20. Glenelle wondered at the folly of a nation consisting of one pill-shaped space colony three miles in diameter and forty miles long that passes in close orbit less than five hundred miles above, declaring war on a glowing industrial belt holding half a billion mortals that was longer than the distance to that orbit

    21. Glenelle had to admit that even though Ava did her best to make the war back at Sol sound exciting, it seemed long ago and far away compared to the adjustments she had to face, being a clone and her whole time had been turned into a fantasy realm


    22. Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident


    23. "For all I know they are lost in the war


    24. "I thought you said home was wiped out in a war?"


    25. "Just too bad for him the man he killed was a general, and it was during the war


    26. This war had been going on for years


    27. "My dad died in this war too,” Saya said


    28. Why not use the NatSurv? Ever since the war began, the national surveillance program had become quite extensive


    29. "You wouldn't remember because it was all after your last backup, let me just say there's been a war, but Morg, listen I tried to understand it but there isn't time to understand the war and all that's happened since we backed up last


    30. "That war, so we need a detonation, we need to destroy that asteroid so there is no single chunk to guide into the planet

    31. "We don't know, all transmission has ceased, there was a war, it's a long story and there just isn't time for it now


    32. " She could have gone into talking about the war, but they were going to have to start walking back pretty soon if she was going to get him into the android on time


    33. In the years leading up to the war, the rhetoric and the hostilities intensified


    34. Martyrs attacked, unsuccessfully, the Brazilian bussard seedships that were launched just before the war


    35. By sending the code of their anti-aging virus to Brazil, The Kassikan of the planet Kassidor had declared war, not just on Talstan, but on all Angels of any belief


    36. In return Talstan declared war on the mortals of Brazil and destroyed thousands of their genetic facilities with kinetic weapons launched from the moon


    37. The souls on the Al-Harron knew from the messages they received while early in the voyage that the war had unleashed all-out destruction in the whole system of Sol


    38. We are fighting a war, not just between civilizations, the mortal and the Angelic, but between stages of evolution


    39. All the populace knew was that they needed to welcome new souls, but all non-technical souls thought they were in a paradise of God's making as detailed in the scripture of holy war, they did not know they were simulated in a machine


    40. war would be the beginning of "The flash of a thousand

    41. Bahkmar was born in 2312, unnoticed because the two hundredth anniversary of Talstan's founding by Qaida, the Prophet of Holy War, was the year before, but he was able to consider himself two centuries younger than the nation all his life


    42. My mother’s family came here after being bombed out of Bristol during the war and stayed


    43. (5) Know that we are in a war so that we can never give up even to those who would try


    44. There had been radio contact between Brazil and the Kassikan for thirty years, from the time the Lula entered the 61 Cygni system until the war


    45. ’ He said thoughtfully, ‘I wasn’t old enough to join up at the start of the war, and by the time I was old enough, I was needed on the land because all the other men had joined up


    46. For about two years now I have entered a very interesting phase of my life, since I have more and more psychic experiences; yet, I have also perceived certain paradox incidents which appear more and more frequently, surrounding me like a Sonic War: At daybreak, when I do the most important meditation exercise of the day, there is incredible mobility in the block of flats next to my house: A number of cars come and go continuously in and out of their outdoor garage, which happens to be right next to my bedroom window! Even earlier, from 4:00 to 6:00 am (no exaggeration) they race engines incessantly and/or slam car doors uncountable times! Why, indeed? Only God -or Satan- knows! The fact is that more often than not I can hardly sleep, I feel exasperated and I can't meditate properly


    47. At work I confront a never-ending war from persons of dubious value: First of all Nicoleta, a clerk, who is always insulting, mocking and slandering not only me but other colleagues as well


    48. The church must give in to him or there will be war in the congregation


    49. Wally was 19 when war broke out and went straight into the navy, spending most of the war years on a ship up in Scapa Flow


    50. All my residents have suffered loss as a result of war – either tangible loss in the shape of careers thrown off course or emotional trauma caused by bereavement - and I can empathise with them … if for a different, and drastically less acceptable reason














































    1. The frigid air warred with my breathe to create a milky steam, while the hairs on the back of my arms stiffened


    2. Panic and hysteria warred within her, and she screamed, “Em!”


    3. It would end all too soon and then what? The two extremes of his inner-self warred with each other as he held her with a grip that would not loosen


    4. Some feared that they might be warred upon by these strange chariot people, but somehow they had been left to wander about the land


    5. No beings warred, hunted each other or killed each other


    6. 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, note, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of


    7. chariots, and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it


    8. 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the


    9. 8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp


    10. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and

    11. 6 And he went out and warred


    12. 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males


    13. 42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,


    14. Leora thought out what she was to say next, though frustration warred within her, she was wise enough not to speak through it


    15. The neighboring country, with which our country had warred with before, began invading the


    16. I regret the years that our races have warred with one another


    17. Our races have warred with one another for many generations


    18. Species of humanoids that have warred between themselves will be encouraged to unite to repel the ongoing threat of the Harad Ghul


    19. But conditions are not as they were then, when all kingdoms were broken into principalities which warred with each other


    20. The planet’s remaining inhabitants were limited to two groups of religious fanatics who constantly warred with each other

    21. His forces then warred with them and pro-


    22. enemies that they warred against so long ago and won, have now


    23. while Sparta, Athens, Thebes and other poleis warred among themselves, Macedon, to the north, was beginning to come into its own


    24. Christians and Muslims had warred to eliminate each


    25. Certainly, Christianity has warred against more than science


    26. It was said of a famous general[22] of old, when he could have taken the city[23] he warred against, he would not, and by and by when he would, he could not


    27. while with each other warred


    28. He picked up his bow, warred, won,


    29. Pain and guilt warred in his gut


    30. Fear and uncertainty warred with the nervous excitement

    31. In a daze with my heart numb, I struggled with the jealousy, anger, and pain that warred for my attention


    32. While the earth warred with the land


    33. Murphy’s face was a battleground of indecision: years of EMT training warred with a whole new set of concerns


    34. It hovered, shaking, over his upturned palm as the muscles in his other arm locked and warred with one another


    35. A cramp shot up his leg as the muscles locked and warred with each other


    36. I fell backward and the desire to let go and nurse my busted up hand was a palpable emotion to be warred against


    37. I looked down as the question weighed down upon me and I warred within myself as to what to say in return


    38. Emotions warred across his face


    39. Furious thinking and giddy excitement warred on his face


    40. I did want her, but I warred within myself against the forbidden desires that attacked my remembrance of the past and threatened to overwhelm them with something new

    41. In Shakespeare, tragedy was the flame struck from the clash of moral principles; here her maternal desire to see him meaningfully employed warred with her Old Testament mistrust of cities


    42. And when their time was up, these people stole guns and warred on Spain


    43. Ever since men—reasoning beings—have existed, they have distinguished good from evil, and have profited by the fact that men have made this distinction before them; they have warred against evil, and have sought the good, and have slowly but uninterruptedly advanced in that path


    1. "We were just a dead leaf trampled under the feet of those warring mountains of water


    2. When we reach Revelation 21 and 22, we are no longer flesh and spirit warring against one another, but are now a unified Body – corporately – that is neither ruled by flesh, nor by spirit


    3. Again he raises his head to look at me, astonishment and hope warring in his eyes


    4. ’ He said, affection and pride warring in his voice as he describes his home in detail - sounding not unlike an estate agent I once met when I was across in Bristol


    5. I couldn't go on with all that warring


    6. “The man is mad! The other Lords would never accept him; they would rebel, and Aura would become a warring ground


    7. ‘The constant warring has taken its toll,’ said the


    8. She’d seen this with other warring couples


    9. willing to bet that she too would navigate the warring land, walking the sometimes tricky path of disengagement for the duration


    10. swearing-in ceremony and essentially set the stage for a peaceful future between the two warring sides in the final words of his

    11. To what purpose may I ask? The American Government has been drawn into a quagmire of warring factions, each of questionable character, for no apparent (political) reason


    12. Based on the description of warfare in "The Art of War" and the striking similarity of the text's prose to other works from Warring States period led the modern scholars to place the completion of "The Art of War" in the Warring States Period (476-221 BC)


    13. In the subsequent Warring States Period (475-221 BC), �The Art of War� became the most widely read military treatise


    14. Warring States Period was period of constant war fought between seven nations (Zhao, Qi, Qin, Chu, Han, Wei and Yan) to gain control over the vast expanse of fertile territory in Eastern China


    15. This discovery led to the significant expansion of the body of surviving Warring States military theory


    16. Sun Bin�s text, apart from being the only surviving military text from the Warring States period discovered in the twentieth century, also contains the closest similarity to �The Art of War� among all surviving texts


    17. One of the earliest accounts was of the first emperor of a unified China, Qin Shi Huang, who considered the book had ended the Age of Warring States


    18. “You poor child,” he murmured, looking down at me, pity and hunger warring in his eyes


    19. “What do you mean?” I whispered, swaying slightly as I fought the warring urges within me


    20. One who could galvanize warring fractions into a formidable force through a soul stirring speech

    21. But, also in 300 years from Constantine’s institution of the new faith in AD 325, a source of extreme threat arose to smite Christians who seemed more diligent in their warring with each other than they were with those who surrounded them


    22. Constantine called three councils to forge compromises between the warring Christian factions


    23. It absorbed one of the two empires that had exhausted themselves warring against each other for generations, and then, renewed its assault upon the remaining eastern lands of the survivor, whose capital Constantinople was observed by its founder to be the cultural and economic center of gravity of the whole Roman Empire


    24. They had increasingly become the followers of men, not the Word as the Apostle Paul had warned against many times, and their strivings divided the very strength of the movement into warring factions that weakened the core around which they orbited


    25. ” They divided the empire that they were rapidly inheriting into warring regions more anxious and adept at fighting each other than those who surrounded them


    26. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish


    27. found the King of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish


    28. Playing an Instrument: Prophesying; worship and praising Him; warring in the Spirit; soothing the soul; worship of self; idolatry; activity or action


    29. Boots: Warring in the Spirit


    30. After they went out out of paradise, Adam took Eve his wife, and went up into the east; And he remained there eighteen years and two months; and Eve conceived and brought out two sons, Diaphotus called Cain, and Amilabes called Abel; And after this, Adam and Eve were with one another; and when they lay down, Eve said to Adam her Lord: My Lord, I have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son Amilabes, who is called Abel, thrown into the mouth of Cain his brother, and he drank it without pity; And he entreated him to grant him a little of it, but he did not listen to him, but drank it all up; and it did not remain in his belly, but came out out of his mouth; And Adam said to Eve: Let us arise, and go and see what has happened to them, lest perchance the enemy should be in any way warring against them

    31. This unilateral and undemocratic action threw the city of Brea into political turmoil, dividing it into warring factions and turning friends into enemies


    32. Like my old Beta chapter at Emory, that fraternity had two warring factions, the Crusaders for Christ and the Crusaders for Coors


    33. After they went out out of paradise Adam took Eve his wife and went up into the east; And he remained there eighteen years and two months; and Eve conceived and brought out two sons Diaphotus called Cain and Amilabes called Abel; And after this Adam and Eve were with one another; and when they lay down Eve said to Adam her Lord: My Lord I have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son Amilabes who is called Abel thrown into the mouth of Cain his brother and he drank it without pity; And he entreated him to grant him a little of it but he did not listen to him but drank it all up; and it did not remain in his belly but came out out of his mouth; And Adam said to Eve: Let us arise and go and see what has happened to them lest perchance the enemy should be in any way warring against them


    34. princes are warring with Troy because, following Ulysses’ advice, they had


    35. Warring roommates and neighbors


    36. "I have to confess that my faith is warring with my heart


    37. The budding nation of Israel was left undisturbed and untouched by the warring factions


    38. Ra was a powerful demon and had great strength, but the powerful warring angel dwarfed him


    39. Suddenly, the whole sky above the mountain were filled with warring angels


    40. Both men stood motionless as images, except for the expanding of their muscles on rigid arms and braced legs, but strength beyond common conception was warring there—strength that might have uprooted trees and crushed the skulls of bullocks

    41. The remnants of the Bossonians were swept out of existence, and the blood-mad barbarians swarmed into Aquilonia, looting and burning, before the legions, warring again with the Nemedians, could be marched into the west


    42. And in the far north, the Nordic tribes are restless, warring continually with the Cimmerians, and sweeping the Hyperborean frontiers


    43. Behind these were two rows of vertical wings which rose from the upper deck, one above each hull, giving the impression of two warring square riggers


    44. Unfortunately, this caused a raise in hormone levels and caused warring factions to break out on his planet that lasted centuries


    45. "My experience in the recent war has convinced me that we can no longer engage ourselves in a warring attitude


    46. They Were Warring In


    47. warring parties from afar


    48. watchers? And why and how did he know so much about the warring


    49. wrongdoers by warring against everyone close to those individuals


    50. This is not unlike the citizens of the United States who eventually wound up suffering for their country’s arms support of two warring nations in the Middle East











































    1. It harkened back to an era of romantic lawlessness, the drug wars, probably generations before his time


    2. between the wars to be able to fight in neither one of them, I watched most of the


    3. It was pretty much a whole bunch of wars all wrapped up into one continuous one


    4. I speculated on the civil wars and religious factionalism and its effects on young minds


    5. ‘Dad tells me you’ve been in the wars, Karal


    6. “Here’s the Star Wars collection, the old ones


    7. He gave his name as Althart, but Tarlass suspected he was a hero from the wars of magic under a different name


    8. During the great wars with the insane ones, she was a victim of terrible, terrible abuse


    9. "I can imagine," Alan said, "It would cause wars on Earth


    10. I spent time having mind wars with them and usually felt I was close to finding out their plan

    11. He had a kit bag over his shoulder and wore his cap all askew upon his head, because he was coming home from the wars and although not yet formally and officially de-mobbed, he simply didn’t feel like complying with dress regulations anymore


    12. In this febrile atmosphere of ratings wars and popular novelty, an executive producer at a small independent production company came up with a marvellous new idea


    13. And this is my daughter who, until now has shown a remarkable lack of interest in science fiction generally and Star Wars in particular and who, not so very long ago, castigated her brother for being a Star Wars geek


    14. fighting wars, electing the same control freaks who did nothing for the country


    15. The prince marshalled his forces, made plans and waged wars


    16. Just before the second of the great wars, towards the middle of


    17. I have witnessed these wars


    18. In this febrile atmosphere of ratings wars and popular novelty,


    19. “As such,” Ava said, “If this is the echo of 2341 you should know the history of the Android Wars?” She had been young when it happened, but the early asteroid belt had been plagued by sabotage and outright pitched battles as iOS and Moly tried to exterminate all traces of the Android OS


    20. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these

    21. The hallways and elevators were crowded, most people who knew him in these halls knew him as professor Mithrandir who taught Troubled Times History of the Ttharmine Basin 218 (The Dark Lord and his fall) and 221 (The Wars of Magic and their aftermath), both very popular courses that he taught faithfully until the starship age


    22. I gather that they worked for weeks on costumes for the recent Star Wars conference


    23. All its wars


    24. If it wasn’t for the university established in the wilderness by a few scientists soon after the wars of magic, it might have been lost forever


    25. They had space wars here when Earth had just invented the pyramid


    26. When their needs came in conflict, the wars began


    27. ‘Half-abandoned since the wars, I’d say,’ said Louis


    28. ‘Then the wars


    29. fertile as any they had seen, but years of conflict and wars


    30. He's told me about wars because of religious fundamentalism and the stifling, stifling, stifling, laws against anything people somewhere, somehow, might enjoy

    31. But YingolNeerie? A land of force and slavery and a life of nothing but a vicious quest for dominance where everyone must constantly strive beyond all possible need? That was a land lost to great evil like the dark lands in the wars of magic


    32. These, however, though the highest, are by no means the only high prices which seem to have been occasioned by the civil wars


    33. good sense but their bad deeds too (wars, colonial


    34. They conversed with each other about that, mentioning the names of a few Goblin kings, the Wars of Magic, the Dark Lord and a lot of other historical details that Alan knew little about


    35. disputes inside of families than real wars


    36. If you had gone thru the horrors of The Fall and the Wars of Magic you would understand why that was so important


    37. Some people said that the wars described by


    38. Someone said that the wars described by Homer


    39. that Germany is in the top after two lost wars


    40. This hunger makes men eager to fight in the wars

    41. In each of those periods, however, there was not only much private and public profusion, many expensive and unnecessary wars, great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to maintain unproductive hands; but sometimes, in the confusion of civil discord, such absolute waste and destruction of stock, as might be supposed, not only to retard, as it certainly did, the natural accumulation of riches, but to have left the country, at the end of the period, poorer than at the beginning


    42. Thus, in the happiest and most fortunate period of them all, that which has passed since the Restoration, how many disorders and misfortunes have occurred, which, could they have been foreseen, not only the impoverishment, but the total ruin of the country would have been expected from them ? The fire and the plague of London, the two Dutch wars, the disorders of the revolution, the war in Ireland, the four expensive French wars of 1688, 1701, 1742, and 1756, together with the two rebellions of 1715 and 1745


    43. In the course of the four French wars, the nation has contracted more than £145,000,000 of debt, over and above all the other extraordinary annual expense which they occasioned ; so that the whole cannot be computed at less than £200,000,000


    44. But had not those wars given this particular direction to so large a capital, the greater part of it would naturally have been employed in maintaining productive hands, whose labour would have replaced, with a profit, the whole value of their consumption


    45. The family’s two oldest sons had died three years earlier, forced to serve as soldiers in the Lydian wars


    46. The civil wars of Flanders, and the Spanish government which succeeded them, chased away the great commerce of Antwerp,


    47. But it is otherwise, they think, with countries which have connections with foreign nations, and which are obliged to carry on foreign wars, and to maintain fleets and armies in distant countries


    48. Every such nation, therefore, must endeavour, in time of peace, to accumulate gold and silver, that when occasion requires, it may have wherewithal to carry on foreign wars


    49. So they sent him to the wars as a common soldier


    50. It is not always necessary to accumulate gold and silver, in order to enable a country to carry on foreign wars, and to maintain fleets and armies in distant countries














































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    Synonyms for "war"

    war warfare state of war battle fighting encounter contest combat

    "war" definitions

    the waging of armed conflict against an enemy


    a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply


    an active struggle between competing entities


    a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious


    make or wage war