Waging Sentence Examples

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  • I'm not … I know you're waging a war.

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  • What is now the German empire was a mere congeries of small states, waging perpetual tariff wars upon each other.

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  • Bursting through the door, she immediately spotted Brutus, who was waging a battle against a pack of wild dogs.

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  • Thanks for your help, but around here we're waging a constant war against nature.

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  • I'm not … I know you're waging a war.

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  • He abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

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  • In between waging class war and fighting imperialism, Ms German leads a rather touching crusade on behalf of the Routemaster bus.

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  • But not Big kind Bush, he likes war and is as we all know from experience is absolutely lousy at waging it.

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  • Petrarch began by waging relentless war against the logicians and materialists of his own day.

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  • Only by waging their struggle against oppression oppression by those who tell them they are unfit to govern.

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  • He accuses her of waging a vindictive campaign against Sonia.

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  • Some are waging war in a spiritual battle against giving in or giving up.

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  • If you're constantly waging battle against the dreaded shine, you might consider adding one of these makeup removers to your regimen.

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  • War is waging between the Allies and the Axis and it's time for you to choose a side.

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  • The game is good vs. evil constantly battling for control of the force - a continuously waging battle.

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  • His comments about autism are remarkably antagonistic, waging what seems to be an all-out attack on children affected by the condition, as well as their parents.

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  • With indefatigable energy he at once attempted to grapple with the difficulties of the situation, waging an almost desperate struggle with sloth, corruption and incompetence.

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  • General Jose de Lamar, who commanded the Peruvians at Ayacucho, was elected president of Peru on the 24th of August 1827, but was deposed, after waging a brief but Early disastrous war with Colombia on the 7th of June Presidents.

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  • In January 1865 Sherman marched northwards again, once more abandoning his base, towards Petersburg, where Grant and Lee were waging a war of giants.

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  • In 1550 he met Sepulveda in public debate on the theses drawn from the recently published Apologia pro libro de justis belli causis, in which the latter had maintained the lawfulness of waging unprovoked war upon the natives of the New World.

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  • Kieft promised the concessions to gain the board's consent to waging war, but later denied its authority to exact promises from him and dissolved it.

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  • In consideration of their efforts to achieve independence, Great Britain regards the Czechoslovaks as an Allied nation and recognizes the unity of the three Czechoslovak armies as an Allied and belligerent army waging a regular warfare against Austria-Hungary and Germany...

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  • On two occasions he was obliged to leave France for conspiring against the government of his mother and of Cardinal Richelieu; and after waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc, he took refuge in Flanders.

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  • The West India Company, erected in 1621, though framed on the same model, aimed rather at waging war on the enemies' commerce than in developing their own.

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  • These, like the Bedouin Arabs, are practically independent, waging constant warfare among themselves and paying an uncertain tribute to the Turkish government.

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  • Without waging war Louis made himself virtual arbiter of the fate of the principalities in the north, and his court was always besieged by ambassadors from them.

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  • For several years he scoured the Mediterranean in command of the Genoese fleet, waging war on the Turks and the Barbary pirates.

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  • President Dwight Eisenhower, lifelong military man and five-star general, had much to say on the waging of war.

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  • Bella ud-Din observed that the whole soul of the monarch was engrossed by the war which he was then engaged in waging against the enemies of the faith, and saw that the only mode of acquiring his favour was by urging him to its vigorous prosecution.

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  • After waging an unsuccessful war with Ptolemy IV.

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  • From 1625 to 1629 Mason was engaged as treasurer and paymaster of the English army in the wars which England was waging against Spain and France.

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  • For the same reason, the king rejected the chancellor's alternative of waging a simply defensive war against the emperor by means of the fleet, with Stralsund as his base.

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  • The Hungarian Government could claim the right to take independent economic measures for her own territory in war-time; a joint arrangement was only possible for the territories of the Dual Monarchy - which were united for tariff purposes - by agreements between the Austrian and Hungarian Governments; and since neither Government was exclusively concerned to carry out an adjustment of economic conditions solely in accordance with what was necessary for waging war and holding out with the supplies at their disposal, but each had also to champion the interests of one half of the monarchy against the other, the negotiations between the two Governments were often attended with the greatest difficulties, and constantly ended unsatisfactorily.

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  • He was represented by Queen Constance, and his great admiral Roger de Loria kept the war away from Sicily, waging it wholly in Italy, and making Charles, the son of King Charles, prisoner.

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  • He had quarrelled with Austria; Russia was persecuting its Catholic subjects; France was under the spell of Gambetta and his doctrine that clericalism was the enemy; Spain and Belgium followed France; even Switzerland was waging a Kulturkampf on a small scale.

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