Actual fighting between the warring parties.
1 The Syndics could take it as an excuse to go hot war again.
2 But there's a strictly local hot war going on out where we're headed.
3 But there could be a strictly local hot war .
4 Wisner was ready for a hot war .
5 It's a hot war , she said.
6 Conceivably a universal anti-American movement might develop a hot war similar to the anti-Hitler coalition of the 1930's.
7 In the Moluccas also they had done much injury to the Spaniards, and a hot war was there expected.
8 Nebber neutral in hot war .
9 China's Chairman Xi Jinping this week told the UN he had no intention to fight a " hot war " .
10 The risk of miscommunication, miscalculation and sudden escalation into a hot war is higher than during the original Cold War, he says.
11 It was easier to start a hot war in Georgia as there was already a history of violent Russian-supported separatism, unlike Ukraine.
12 A hot war of words followed, Abe Blower and Tom Dillon telling the two rascals just what they thought of their conduct.
13 But in 1876, with the hot war now passed, and the need for black soldiers gone, the country returned to its supremacist roots.
14 The CIA would stay focused on the hot war in Southeast Asia and the cold war in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
15 After a long period of peace in the coal-trade, it looked as though a time of hot war between masters and men was approaching.
16 Historically, these things have led to a hot war in 12 out of 16 episodes in 2,000 years of history.
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