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go to war

VERB
  1. commence hostilities

How To Use go to war In A Sentence

  • Not that irredentist desires disappeared, only that fewer Frenchmen seemed willing to go to war over the issue in 1914 than in previous years.
  • The government does not want to go to war unless all other alternatives have failed.
  • To do otherwise faces America with the stark choice of going to War with Russia because some pettifogger who is Head of State in one of those Countries has a bone to pick, and picks it because NATO is with us, or withdrawing from the NATO Treaty rather than go to War. Ilan Goldenberg: The Powell Endorsement and the End of the Republican Foreign Policy Establishment
  • If we back down, we'll lose credibility, but if we go to war we'll look like bullheaded unilateralists.
  • When Dubbya arranged a cosy billet in the TX Air National Guard; when Cheyney had “other priorities”; when Donald “You go to war with the army you have” Rumsfeld never saw fit to personally smell the gunsmoke; when any number of “chicken hawk” neo cons were allowed to hijack national security, it was patriotism? Obama’s ‘Dream Team’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I was afraid that I would have to go to war just to protect her, and I couldn't reconcile the safety and freedom of one misborn with compromising the safety of all those who depend on me. The Black Gryphon
  • His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories — illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
  • In November Roosevelt conveniently won re-election to an unprecedented third presidential term, while pledging that the USA would not go to war.
  • The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information. Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
  • The government does not want to go to war unless all other alternatives have failed.
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