war with

war with someone

to fight or dispute with someone. Ruth is always warring with someone, usually about something trivial. Please don't war with me!

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Multiple critics have recognized The Lord of the Rings as being very distinctly "based on a Christian experience" (Griffin 116) and that Tolkien's "myth-making intention in The Lord of the Rings is at war with the Catholicism which he subtly, but nonetheless deliberately, promotes in the trilogy" (Critchett 36).

Middle-earth: the real world of J. R. R. Tolkien

(134.) In 1906, a year after its formation, the Het Volk party attempted to foster greater solidarity among Afrikaners across class lines by urging the poorer strata of rural Afrikaners to memorialize en masse family members who had died during the war with detailed death notices.

HELL IN SMALL PLACES: AGRARIAN ELITES AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN TRANSVAAL, 1900-1907

Finally, Alabama Baptists emerged from the Second World War with a more ecumenical and internationalist perspective.

Alabama Baptists and the Second World War

The authors recount tales of the Gulf War with scholarship, clarity and moral force.

War in the Gulf, 1990-1991: The Iraqi-Kuwait Conflict and It's Implications: Views from the Other Side

The Iranians (who were invaded by Saddam and who suffered massive casualties in an eight-year war with Iraq);

Bring 'em home! The Iraq war is an unconstitutional, unjustifiable conflict devouring innocent lives and abetting the growth of an increasingly lawless leviathan state. It must be ended--now

Iraq was economically in very bad shape, having only recently ended a costly eight-year war with Iran, which Iraq had launched in the hope of seizing Iran's oil fields.

1991: the war before the war: the Persian Gulf war ended with an allied victory--and Saddam Hussein still in power

And yes, we come back to the ultimate betrayal, the betrayal of the young, sent to war with grandiose promises and lying words about freedom and democracy, about duty and patriotism.

The ultimate betrayal

are prudent and fall well within the time-honored criteria of just war theory." Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said war with Iraq is well justified: "If you are looking for just cause, we have already passed that threshold."

Atheists in foxholes, christian in uniform

But some American analysts think that: Because of the failure to oust Hussein, the United States will be in a state of war with Iraq until he is overthrown.

Gulf War: the socio-political background

we are going to have a war with the Negro[e]s when this one is over right in the States."(68) Black men at the shipyard and other Pearl Harbor work areas did enjoy the relative freedoms the Navy provided.

The "Double-V" campaign in World War II Hawaii: African Americans, racial ideology, and federal power

Consul General to Havana Fitzhugh Lee in 1896, was just the thing to "knock the pus" out of the "populistic boil." During the second term of Democrat Grover Cleveland, an effort was made to provoke a war with Great Britain over a border dispute in Venezuela.

The war party's playbook

Mexicans remember the 1846-1848 war with the U.S., very clearly; in Mexico, the war is called the

War & remembrance: the U.S. and Mexico share a long, sometimes-troubled history that goes back to the Mexican-American War--which still resonates on both sides of the border

In the long run, will the war with Iraq ignite a democratic revolution in the Middle East?

From here to eternity: the unintended consequences of war

There was no more candor in the Persian Gulf War or the war in Afghanistan or the war with Iraq than there was in Vietnam.

Heckled in Rockford. (Cover Story)

War with Iraq may be the first major expression of this new policy (as of press time, no shooting had yet begun).