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go to war

VERB
  1. commence hostilities

How To Use go to war In A Sentence

  • It says the decision to go to war was based on, quote, ‘unreasonable and largely unsupportable intelligence.’
  • But it is mostly with respect to Obama's evident reluctance to confront boldly the right-wing Bushites over the terrorism policies that I'd like to raise the question: how powerful are those Bushite forces against which Obama seems so uneager to go to war? Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces
  • We care enough about Jackie that we simultaneously hope that his wish to go to war will be granted, and that it never will.
  • People were less concerned with what they substantively had learned about Iraq's yellow-cake uranium policy -- that the past decision to go to war in Iraq may have been made against the advice and proffered ambiguous evidence of Miss Plame's husband -- than with the identity of the government official who had despicably and feloniously "blown her cover. Tony Blankley: A Curious Lack of Curiosity
  • We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
  • It's another thing to get a massive giveback with NBA players ready to go from 57 percent to 51 percent of basketball-related income, then go to war for the last 1 percent. Mark Heisler: Historic Blunder, Anyone?
  • When nations go to war, the public language of politics and the media becomes a weapon of conflict.
  • This will strengthen the American public's resolve to go to war.
  • Like the Americans, they know that they cannot afford to go to war with the other nuclear superpower. Times, Sunday Times
  • And anyone reading the weasel words of doubt that are insinuated throughout this text can only have profound concern about the basis for which Britain is to go to war.
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