noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a devastating war
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It will take a long time for the region to recover from such a devastating war.
a horror/adventure/war film
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He likes watching horror films.
a propaganda war
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He denied the existence of any political prisoners, dismissing the claims as part of a propaganda war.
a state of war
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Syria was still in a state of war with Israel.
a war correspondent
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Being a war correspondent is a dangerous job.
a war hero (= a soldier who was very brave in a war )
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Coming home, he was hailed as a war hero.
a war wound
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He walked with a limp, the result of an old war wound.
a war/battle/combat zone
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Planes were diverted to avoid flying over the war zone.
all-out war/attack/offensive etc
bring peace/war
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The treaty brought peace to both England and France.
civil war (= fighting between groups of people in the same country )
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His family fled Spain during the Spanish civil war.
civil war
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the Spanish Civil War
cold war
council of war
fighting...war
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Neither country is capable of fighting a long war .
First World War
full-scale attack/war/riot etc
guerrilla war/warfare
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American troops found themselves fighting a guerrilla war.
holy war
on a war footing (= ready to go to war at any time )
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The whole country was on a war footing .
on the brink of death/disaster/war etc
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In October 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war.
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The company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse.
phoney war
price war
prisoner of war
the class struggle/war (= disagreement or fighting between different classes )
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the class struggle between workers and capitalists
the end of the war
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The two men met once again before the end of the war.
the fight/war against terrorism
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ideas on how the international community can further the war against terrorism
the Great War old-fashioned (= World War I )
the spoils of war/victory etc
the war effort
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Taxes were raised to support the war effort.
the war on drugs (= a long struggle by the authorities to control drugs )
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The war on drugs continues.
the war years
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She worked for the BBC during the war years.
turf war/battle (= a fight or argument over the areas or things you think belong to you )
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turf wars among government bureaucracies
wage war (on sb/sth)
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The police are waging war on drug pushers in the city.
war chest
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The government’s huge war chest could be used to improve transport.
war crime
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He was put on trial for war crimes.
war crimes tribunal (= court judging war crimes )
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an international war crimes tribunal
war crimes (= serious crimes committed during a war )
war cry
war dance
war effort
war game
war memorial
war of attrition
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a war of attrition
war of attrition
war of nerves
war of words
War on Terrorism
war paint
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Josie’s just putting on her war paint.
war widow
war zone
win a battle/war
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Who won the battle of Waterloo?
world war
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fears of another world war
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
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In so doing, they probably constituted the most important single cause of the subsequent civil war and revolution.
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It is possible that the wars of 573 to 575 marked the worst period of civil war in sixth-century Francia.
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In this case long term aid would also have to include ending the civil war by some form of intervention if necessary.
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He consequently witnessed the February days, the potential civil war at a distance.
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Who have become grotesquely richer as children die in civil wars fought in their inner cities?
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In fact civil wars may not have endangered the Merovingian state to the extent that Gregory implies.
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The latest fighting in Jaffna coincides with new efforts by the government to the 17-year civil war through constitutional changes.
cold
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Since the end of the cold war there has been no one to fund conflicts in the Middle East.
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But above all, the cold war was over.
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Britains aerospace industries suffered badly when the cold war ended 4 years ago.
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And the cold war procedures, routines and language sprang back into action.
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The wage erosion, of course, started before the end of the cold war .
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I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war .
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The height of the cold war was also the period which has come to be known as the golden age of capitalism.
holy
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This is a holy war , you know - spiritual health is more important than the physical kind.
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That misunderstanding led to holy wars .
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But a United Nations expert from Oxford University says action could lead to a holy war .
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Political self-interest and holy war combined to demolish for good the huge structure of empire.
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In the eyes of ordinary folk, the crusade was a holy war for the sake of war.
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Great Groups are engaged in holy wars .
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They were the perfect soldiers for Aenarion's holy war .
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The intense zeal on both sides is culminating in a sort of end-of-the-century holy war .
nuclear
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And for a while, the world looked terrifyingly on the edge of nuclear war .
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The risks of an escalation to nuclear war were small.
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Now despite years of steady disarmament they're all talking about nuclear war again, and more intensely than ever before.
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Ronald Reagan was deplored as a firebrand who might bring on a nuclear war .
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Who, today, believes that a nuclear war would do more good than harm?
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Surface bursts of large nuclear weapons are an essential part of strategic nuclear war .
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All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war .
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The use of nuclear weapons against urban targets is almost inevitable in a nuclear war .
■ NOUN
chest
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Clinton has a full war chest and no Democratic opponent to worry about.
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The dairymen accumulated a war chest of $ 1 million, and spread half of it in congressional elections.
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Lockyer is better known statewide and commands a heftier campaign war chest than Calderon.
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The example of Phil Gramm, who had a large war chest but could not move voters, buttressed his argument.
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Much of that money already was in the Clinton-Gore war chest .
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Martin's campaign war chest enjoys strong support from industry, including mine managers and safety officers.
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It has a war chest of $ 40 million to spend each year on advertising.
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And he still has a war chest of $ 263, 417.
crime
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He is charged with 20 war crimes , including genocide and crimes against humanity.
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It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group.
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The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that.
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Anger at what has been perpetrated and an insistence on due process are the essential combination in dealing with war crimes .
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In other societies these would be war crimes , to be tried and punished.
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Its jurisdiction would be limited to the Yugoslav conflict and to war crimes committed after 1 January 1991.
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Aggressors are grabbing territory; war crimes are being committed.
criminal
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If Mr Putin wants to coddle war criminals , let him do it on his own nickel.
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The war criminals Nixon and Kissinger have destroyed it.
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The political will in Canberra to pursue war criminals has long since run out.
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The war criminals issue was her first chance to prove herself as his successor.
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The pursuit of war criminals , if carried out firmly but prudently, could yet help rather than hinder peace in Bosnia.
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It is an open secret, however, that soldiers are not to arrest war criminals they encounter.
effort
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We also found a whole batch of papers which we thought might be vital to the war effort .
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He could not participate in the war effort .
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Equally important was its decision to combine support for the war effort and for the Government with the most vigorous campaigning politics.
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Meldola was, by now, an ailing and weary man, overcome by excessive worry and work for the growing war effort .
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The war effort necessitated rational redeployment of workforce resources.
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The results were certainly dramatic in terms of the war effort .
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Brains from those murdered were purloined for neuroscience research unrelated to the war effort .
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They was making us make baskets, for the war effort .
gulf
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The Gulf war , which could have spelt disaster for Airtours and many other travel companies, ended quickly.
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Sales were hit early on by the Gulf war and profits fell 19 p.c. to £2.8m.
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After the Gulf war , thousands of Kurdish refugees fled to the mountains.
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The end of the Gulf war has prompted Rover Group to increase exports of its cars.
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Today it is a military base with a long runway from which B-52 bombers were launched during the Gulf war .
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The new gulf war Public culture is left; private culture is right.
hero
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What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family?
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Stewart was viewed in Washington as something of a war hero .
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A war hero unmasked as a traitor.
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Then the war heroes came back home and bumped Lucky out ofhis place at the livery.
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All this and a war hero to boot.
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We were both war heroes , and both of us had just been elected to Congress.
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I keep forgetting he's a war hero .
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Local Republicans figured a wounded war hero would be a natural political candidate.
machine
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If you like mighty, if quirky, war machines , then you can choose steam tanks and war wagons.
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They become instant targets for enemy war machines !
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They are difficult to destroy, although a hit from another war machine or large monster may be sufficient to cause damage.
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War Machines 0-25% Up to a quarter of the points value of the army may be spent on war machines.
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For example, you can spend up to 25% of your army's points value on war machines .
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Could I really be part of a war machine ?
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In December Pearl Harbor brought a new urgency to the task of converting the economy into a vast war machine .
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As with all small units you have to be wary of war machines and magic.
memorial
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It had been commissioned by students and was situated near the official war memorial on Hewitt Plaza.
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We had staked out the war memorial where the secret meeting was destined to occur.
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A Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament banner was unfurled and carried round the war memorial before one of those carrying it was arrested.
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The village band, all discordant trumpetings and squeaks, led the congregation in procession to the war memorial .
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In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
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For many years his family thought he was dead, and his name was only recently removed from the village war memorial .
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Charles and Diana did not speak as they climbed into their limousine to drive to the war memorial .
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The heavy plaque was stolen from the war memorial in King's Gardens, Bootle, four weeks ago.
price
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Essentially, the talks were hostile: Morgan used the threat of price war to force firms to sell out and merge.
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A price war is not to be excluded.
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The caution was due to a dark cloud on Airtours' horizon: the rumour of a possible price war .
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Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.
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Time allowed 02:26 Read in studio Small garages in the region could be forced out of business in a new petrol price war .
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Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers will have a price war .
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Others, like General Motors, have had to pull in their sails to weather the storm of a price war .
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The issue of how growing competition among online service providers might lead to a price war arose this year.
trade
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Could this be a prelude to a trade war even more destructive of world prosperity than a military war?
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But trade war fears continued to undermine brewers with Guinness down 6p to 510p.
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Nevertheless, the danger of a tax trade war remains.
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With the spectre of a ruinous trade war looming which could spread like wildfire round the world.
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Second, we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery.
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And without it, a trade war could devastate already shaky world economies.
world
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The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war, reproduced the solutions of the second world war.
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Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war .
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The world war one aircraft have starred in dozens of films like Indiana Jones and Aces High.
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The whispering against Bradman increased during the second world war .
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The accurate identification of ships and aircraft during the recent world wars was of major importance.
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She contributed to the design of anti-aircraft searchlights used in both world wars .
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Male speaker To the second world war and the Blitz.
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Conventional weapons would not have much of an offensive application in a world war in this era.
years
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Trade during the war years declined from over 2.5 million tons in 1939 to just over 1 million tons in 1944.
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Nothing much happened with the Kings River and Kern River projects during the middle war years .
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Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil's empathy with ordinary working folk.
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My favorite memory from the war years .
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During the war years we were very short of backstage staff, so John was allowed to continue.
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Indeed, many changes introduced by management in the post-cold-war years read like a catalogue of the misbegotten.
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It was a habit picked up in the war years and difficult to break.
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Sadly, the war years interrupted the programme, though a few short botanical notes did appear between 1939 and 1945.
zone
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He could be sent to another war zone at any time.
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Pusan was the only region that was not in an active war zone .
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Mr Smith, a Northampton headmaster, has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone .
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One cautious council member thought the parish would be asking for trouble by starting a sister-parish relationship in a war zone .
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If they stayed in the war zone they would face almost certain death.
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It looks like a war zone tip here, and perhaps it is.
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In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone .
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The school is in the thick of a war zone between two rival gangs.
■ VERB
declare
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The creatures of Darkness have declared this war .
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They have all but declared war on three government initiatives planned in and around the town.
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Homosexuals, they claim, have declared war on nature, and nature has exacted an awful retribution.
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He has no power to initiate or declare a war either against a foreign nation or a domestic State.
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And last night they declared war .
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And for them, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has declared a war on words.
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By only a four-vote margin, the Congress declares war against Britain.
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Political power lies on the side of those who declare a holy war against inflation.
end
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The peace of Utrecht ended the war proper in 1713, but desultory skirmishes carried on until 1714.
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At this time, however, the Jacksonians were suffering increasing criticism for their inability to end the war .
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The plot concerns a strategy conceived and agreed by the women of the world to end all wars .
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These various statements amounted to straws in the wind rather than a fully defined policy for ending the war .
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His strong hand ended the furious civil wars and brought about the Pax Augusta, which lasted for nearly half a century.
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He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war .
fight
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I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema.
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The virus fought a war and it lost, for the time being, anyway.
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Many were in their 20s, too young to have fought in a war that ended in 1979.
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Repercussions from the war roll far beyond the sorrow of families directly touched by 15 months of fighting .
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Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland.
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Traditionalists fought back in a war of words that continues to this day.
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They tell of an army of warriors who fought a terrible war .
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The two nations have history of hostility and have fought three wars since they both gained independence from Britain in 1947.
lose
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But, though we have won the argument, we are losing the war .
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Chennault and Alsop were losing the bureaucratic war .
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For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war .
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We will lose some of those wars .
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The Tories, the victors in the battle of ideas, look like losing the political war .
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We lost this war as soon as we started it.
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The only vaguely reassuring sign is that the right seems to be losing the graffiti war .
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This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war .
wage
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The Thatcher government waged unceasing war on the professional state.
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And designing and implementing new mercantile processes is the most powerful weapon available to wage that war effectively.
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It brought war , but it can also bring down those who waged war.
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The decision to wage an all-out war against inflation in a country that is not prone to inflation risks disaster.
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Mr Eigen plans to wage his war diplomatically.
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It was as if he wanted to test the laxity and freedoms of waging war up in here.
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Obviously you can not wage war without taxing.
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There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
win
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Planning was winning the war , it would win the peace.
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Like Los Alamos, it was cradled by mountains and hastily built in order to win a war from an odd angle.
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Nor, by the way, will it win the drugs war .
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It was never their intention to win the war outright in this period.
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They had won the war , but they lost the peace.
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Denis Sassou-Nguesso was sworn in as president after winning through war the power he could not hold in peace.
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Rangers, meanwhile, are convinced they possess enough heavy artillery to win the war tonight.
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Code-making and code-breaking played a vital role in winning the war .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all's fair in love and war
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Ah, come on; all's fair in love and war, Cameron.
declare war (on sb/sth)
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Embassy, demanding they declare war on the Third World.
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Homosexuals, they claim, have declared war on nature, and nature has exacted an awful retribution.
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In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade.
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On questions of foreign policy, only Congress can declare war or appropriate the money necessary to fight it.
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There was little the Phoenix King could do but finally declare war against one of his own realms.
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They have all but declared war on three government initiatives planned in and around the town.
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When the Bush administration declared war on drugs, it had no idea what worked.
the Cold War
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However, the cold war is over looked.
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I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war.
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Its front-line position in the Cold War era was of no importance by 1991.
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Now the Cold War is over.
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These policies also served to institutionalise the Cold War.
the First World War
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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War veterans claim that they were exposed to chemical weapons while fighting in the Gulf.
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a war hero and former fighter pilot
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Gas stations in the city are involved in a price war .
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In 1874, war broke out in Europe again.
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In the months leading up to the outbreak of war , both countries were involved in a massive arms build-up.
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Iran's seven-year war with Iraq
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More Americans died in the Civil War than in World War II.
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the Spanish-American War
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the Vietnam War
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When the war ended in 1945, Europe was in chaos.
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Who won the Franco-Prussian War ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1931, more than twenty veterans of foreign wars were among the patients at Carville.
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It is said that this ghost still beats his eerie tattoo during times of war .