It was the year Britain declared war on Germany.

那是英国对德国宣战的那一年。

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The French remembered too, if nobody else did, that it was the Germans who had declared war on France in 1914, not the other way round.

即使没人提醒，法国也会记得德国于1914年向法国宣战。

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When George Bush prematurely declared an end to major combat operations in May 2003 most Americans were behind the war, with only a quarter saying it was a mistake according to Gallup polling data.

当乔治·布什在2003年5月过早宣称对伊主力作战结束的时候，盖洛普民意测验数据显示，大多数美国人都力挺战争，只有四分之一的人觉得那是个错误。

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He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The war was the worst violence since South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia in 1992.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

When war was declared, the Army had only about twenty-five thousand men.

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After the war was declared over, Blair faced pressure from media critics and his own backbenchers over his repeated assertions that Saddam's regime had weapons of mass destruction.

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And as its war aim was unachievable, the declared ends of the war became spectacular.

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He subsequently was declared the war's first combat death, but the U.S. Navy changed his status to missing in action in 2001 after receiving information that he may have survived.

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