Example sentences of "are at war " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are at war with a gang of drug dealers ; the dealers transform a huge Harlem apartment building into a crack factory that throws the city into a state of Boschian depravity . |
| 2 | But these people are now citizens of Arab states that are at war with Israel and they can not claim possession of this land . |
| 3 | On being informed of this , King Louis of France instantly had Winstanley released , declaring , ‘ We are at War with England , not with humanity ’ , and the lighthouse would be of benefit to all nations . |
| 4 | ‘ I and many like me in Germany think it is a tragedy that we are at war with you . |
| 5 | ‘ As to that , ’ said Fedorov firmly , ‘ I must remind you that I am a Russian , and both my native and adopted countries are at war with yours . |
| 6 | Not while the Captain and I are at war . |
| 7 | And herein , of course , lies one of the ruder ironies of the Pacific : that among all this economic vibrancy and dynamism there are still the familiar evils we currently associate only with Africa , or with countries that are at war : illiteracy , hunger , a vertiginous growth of population , disease , overcrowding , slums . |
| 8 | In a society where community factions are at war with each other this process is extremely complex and riddled with failed attempts . |
| 9 | Now I know we are at war with the German People " . |
| 10 | All the plants of a given country are at war with one another . |
| 11 | Not France , of course , for we are at war there . |
| 12 | Its languages are at war ; English operates as the International Red Cross . |
| 13 | In a speech to parliament on June 22 , Moldovan President Mircea Snegur declared that " we are at war with Russia " . |
| 14 | For example , if there is an imbalance of the sexes in an age group either through natural variation in the sex ratio or because men have been killed during war or are at war , the overall marriage rate for that age will tend to fall temporarily and that for the less numerous sex will rise . |