limited war
Example Sentences
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Those ties widened into a security relationship after 1999, when India fought a limited war with Pakistan over Kashmir and Israel helped New Delhi with arms and ammunition.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Korea was frustrating in part because, like Ukraine, it was a limited war.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022
After becoming interested in theories of deterrence and limited war, he decided that nuclear strategy lent itself to his evolving ideas about bargaining and game theory.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016
But it has been a greatly limited war of airstrikes under strict rules of engagement and a gradual buildup of 3,500 troops restricted to training and advising.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2015
To paraphrase the terminology of generative grammars, it was a limited war language, with not too many possible war sentences.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
