A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply.
1 All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
2 But that state of war was useful in other ways, as well.
3 Beauty is a state of war , a frigid blank zone under siege.
4 With lightning speed the President declared that a state of war existed.
5 The first collision was sure to mean an active state of war .
6 Mr. President, the honorable Senator says there is a state of war .
7 Consequently we go prepared as though there were a state of war .
8 The announcement seemed to avert the declaration today of a state of war .
9 Lebanon and Israel are still in a formal state of war .
10 And our nations are not, at the moment, in a state of war .
11 We are in a state of war and war will escalate.
12 Azerbaijan is officially in a state of war with neighbouring Armenia.
13 But the North and South are already practically in a state of war .
14 Now we are in a state of war which will yield to nothing.
15 A state of war was apparently regarded as usual in Egypt.
16 Kovno has been declared to be in a state of war .
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