wartime English

Meaning wartime meaning

What does wartime mean?

wartime

— noun a period of time during which there is armed conflict

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Simple sentences

After seven years of wartime captivity, Tom was a broken man.

During wartime in the United States and Europe, many were encouraged to grow vegetable gardens.

Anarchy can happen during wartime.

The wartime Congress had no money.

Movie subtitles

Why are we standing in front of a window during wartime like this?

Eh? You'll run into trouble if you try and land here in wartime.

I'm a wartime fluke.

There's a concentrated effort at readjustment to normal peacetime activity but unemployment, coming in the wake of the wartime boom is beginning to grip the country.

I've been watchin' you, lad. and you're not bad for a wartime-educated amateur.

It's not so easy in wartime.

It's a mistake to start thinking about permanent things in wartime.

It wouldn't be much fun in a farm house in winter or in some dreary wartime hotel.

They're wartime people.

So I'm just a wartime officer, but I know where humanity ends.

A 2.000-pound bomb is not practical under wartime conditions.

Billy, this test is supposed to simulate wartime conditions.

And of that number, not one pursuit ship is equipped for wartime service.

And you never know in wartime, do you?

It was wartime and Roger was leaving.

Just as in an actual wartime emergency.

After all, you're engaged to be married in a few weeks. but I suppose that in wartime life moves a lot faster.

But in wartime, I'm afraid I prefer something more substantial.

That's a nice kind of a girl to have around in wartime. Or anytime.

For God's sake, ours is a wartime marriage.

In wartime, the best are always the first to die.

Being that it's wartime, I'll do the asking myself.

But in wartime, shortages develop.

In wartime, people will believe any rumour and this.

This is wartime. Peacetime reasoning doesn't apply.

And another point, if there is a Loss of Nationality Act it must apply only in wartime.

For the fame at wartime!

Roy, this is wartime.

I explained to the vicar, Myra, that this is an emergency. that we thought during wartime, something could be managed.

In wartime, for ordinary visitors.

Heavens no! It's just a wartime wedding.

Accidents do happen in wartime.

Officer in wartime.

It is from the wartime!

It's an extension of the wartime O.S.S.

This is wartime.

It's wartime, madam.

You're a young man. You can't possibly have had the wartime experience that would.

And the West German Federal Government has kindly agreed to make a further search of existing wartime records with a view to finally identifying this missile.

Except during wartime.

But this is wartime.

News and current affairs

Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.

Two rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.

But, when conducted during wartime, risks abound.

Finland was the first to issue national inflation-indexed bonds, in 1946, in response to massive wartime price growth.

Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime's responsibility for this ghastly project.

Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.

Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war; either - and most commonly - as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.

It was the first time since their ruinous wartime defeat that Germans were able to feel proud of themselves.

But wartime victory makes cowards of leaders who backed the wrong side.

Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, is the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, once the top industrial bureaucrat of wartime Japan.

Park, too, had a dubious wartime career.

But, apart from his sentimental wartime connections to Japan, his anti-Communism was incentive enough to continue warm relations with the imperial power that had brutally colonized Korea for a half-century.

Though still admired by many South Koreans for rebuilding the country from the ruins of war, his legacy, like that of many members of the old conservative elite, is tainted by wartime collaboration.

Unlike in Germany, Japan had no Hitler or Nazi party on which to blame their wartime atrocities.

The experience of wartime inflations and de facto defaults in the twentieth century made the theme of responsible finance a crucial part of a new European consensus.

They were misfits who, long after the war had ended, insisted on keeping their wartime heroism a secret from their neighbors - afraid, it seems, that their own communities would otherwise shun, threaten, and ostracize them.

Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.

But, as in wartime, one hopes these effects are temporary.

Recently, the discovery of mustard gas canisters left behind by Japanese forces during World War II has also served to keep memories of the Imperial Japanese Army's wartime conduct alive among older Chinese.

Of course, there is no assurance that today's expanded commerce will preclude eventual strategic rivalry, or succeed in erasing lingering wartime animosity.

The Japanese were not ready for it and Kishi was tainted by his wartime record as Minister of Munitions.

He would like to restore some aspects of an older Japan, discredited by Japanese military behavior, such as patriotic pride, a more central role for the imperial institution, and even a reappraisal of Japan's wartime record itself.

But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.

That court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, may soon mete out justice to a new defendant, following the arrest in Belgrade of Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of Bosnia's Serbs.