Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have needed a later generation of social workers , free from the prejudices of war , to detect the frustration behind the mask of ingratitude and disloyalty . |
| 2 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 3 | Such a situation was not unusual amid the vicissitudes of war and of the United States being propelled at speed into undertaking vast global responsibilities . |
| 4 | However , it certainly does not mean that the use of nuclear weapons is perfectly legal under the laws of war as they have evolved in this century . |
| 5 | It does not seem to us to be particularly fruitful to discuss highly generalised theories of whether international law is or could be ‘ law ’ as such : if viewed from the perspective of ‘ effectiveness ’ , international law may have to be judged differently , depending on whether , for example , the focus is on regional economic relations regulated by treaties , or on customary law applicable to the laws of war on a universal scale . |
| 6 | Home leave in the Vaterland , austere and grey under the privations of war , all too often presented a sad contrast . |
| 7 | On one occasion I was present when , due to the exigencies of war , a Kachin from eastern Burma fetched up hundreds of miles away in a Kachin village in eastern Assam . |
| 8 | Its origins go back to 1939 when , due to the clouds of War , a decision was taken to remove the majority of Army Ordnance stores from Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard to a new Army Depot to be built at Donnington in Shropshire . |
| 9 | The staff were used to the rigours of war … |