war zone
战区,战地,战争区,战场
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- : a combat area in which the rights of neutrals are suspended, as such an area on the high seas, where ships flying a neutral flag are subject to attack.
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He thinks it is a great shame that for the past 100 years we’ve seen nature as a huge war zone in which everyone is fighting everyone else.
When Foster first set foot inside the house, the damage was comparable to a war zone, she said.
Gaza is no longer an active war zone, but the emergency hasn’t fully abated.
The international body worked with local war zone organizations to encourage a diverse pool of people to take part.
“They want us to be afraid,” Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, says as his plane starts to descend, bringing him home from a trip to the war zone near his country’s border with Russia.
They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.
He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
We were now masters of the whole country, and the war was apparently at an end.