Meanings of previous war in English

No previous war will compare with this in care for the wounded and maimed.

Had it been suggested during the previous war, its author would have been ridiculed, execrated, perhaps even murdered.

Amnesty International has called for pressure on all sides before fighting degenerates to the levels of the previous war.

The arrogance of England during the previous war and during the negotiations of 1763 had excited a general dislike throughout Europe.

Still, if no previous war had ever been so frightful, neither had there ever been so much done to mitigate suffering.

In no previous war have we struck that top note of keen irony, the closing of the Stock Exchange and not of the Church.

For if one thing is certain it is that European militarism is no more the cause of this war than of any previous war.

Impartial historians declare that "no previous war had ever in the same time entailed upon the combatants such enormous sacrifices of life and wealth."

In previous wars, American soldiers were buried where they fell in battle.

Yet most landmines are a legacy of previous wars, McCann said.

In previous wars, temporary cemeteries were established to hold bodies until hostilities ceased.

Having invaded Congo during previous wars, Rwanda could intervene if it felt threatened.

The ruthless cutting and hacking of previous wars is a thing of the past.

But in previous wars a strict account had been kept.

Soldiers have a much higher chance of surviving a wound today than in previous wars.

The country beyond Semneh was virgin territory, almost untouched and quite uninjured by previous wars.