Of course, not all war chests are created equal.
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To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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An audit of all the war memorials across Wiltshire is to be carried out to ensure their preservation.
My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows of the world.
At Gulu hospital, malnourished babies wait down the hall from amputees, all victims of the war, all waiting for treatment.
President Kumaratunga's tactics of fighting all out war while seeking a constitutional settlement to the conflict have been challenged by Mr Wickremasinghe.
Military analysts know full well that a sudden onset of famine is one of the surest triggers for civil unrest and all out war.
It said that if the stand-off was not serious enough to invoke the clause, then it was difficult to imagine what could, "short of all out war".
As long as there are journalists willing to risk it all in war zones, there will be books that provide the kind of reportorial insights unavailable from soldiers, the Pentagon and the White House.
Intel and AMD retained their positions as top dogs of the microprocessor market in the third quarter, as they brace themselves for what will be an all out war for dominance of the tablet and smartphone markets in the coming months and years.
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Looking forward to 1999, Mr Annan forecast all-out war in both Iraq and Kosovo unless all sides abided by their commitments.
Instead, they assert suavely that all Angolans are brothers, all have suffered from the war, and all are now winners thanks to the peace.
You go back to "All Quiet on the Western Front" -- we must have our guilt about war because we all share that -- we certainly share a guilt about war.
As the war of word continues, the prospect of an all-out trade war is firmly on the radar of some concerned analysts, though others remain calm.
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But by launching the equivalent of all-out war, the SEC has dragged itself into the debate.
But even Major Qetrani seems loth to wage all-out war against Colonel Qaddafi's forces.
Rather than fight battles singly, he prefers all-out war on what he sees as unreason.
Non-governmental commerce has so far seen nationalistic skirmishes, but nothing close to all-out war.
He could charm a Streisand, Springsteen, Joel or Jagger, or launch an all-out war against Paul Simon .
Instead, within days of taking office he mobilized the Mexican military for an all-out war against the drug cartels.
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And last April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war in series of air and ground exchanges.
Serbian police have accused Milosevic of ordering his associates to cover up all evidence of war crimes in Kosovo.
All post-war German history has been about doing right by European countries that once suffered under the Nazi jackboot.
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However, Amazon is expected to launch an all-out war on the tablet market by releasing three new Kindle Fires.
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While Facebook and Google aren't in an all-out war, what start as Silicon Valley border skirmishes can often lead to bigger battles.
Soon after the split, tensions between the old foes escalated over outstanding issues, coming close to an all-out war in April.
In the 1960s, the Pentagon looked for a secure way to keep its lines of communication going in the event of all-out war.
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