state of war
Noun
Meaning
state of war (plural states of war)
A state of armed conflict between states, irrespective of a declaration of war.
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According to current Lebanese officials, Lebanon will be the last Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel as the two states are officially in a state of war.
Brams & Togman 1998, p. 243; Youngs 2001, p. 12 After following other Arab nations in declaring war, Mauritania remained in a declared state of war with Israel until about 1999.
Because the matter was only settled in September 1941, only a few months before a state of war existed between Germany and the U.S., all Eher Verlag ever got was a $2,500 advance from Reynal and Hitchcock.
“Dying in prayer, on a Friday, the holiest day, you are considered a martyr – a person who is not in a state of war but in a struggle with their own self, abstaining from what’s against the law of God.
He believed that society was formed from a state of nature to protect people from the state of war between mankind that exists otherwise.
Every one of us has been passing through days of anxiety; we cannot, however, feel that peace has been established, but that we have nothing but an armistice in a state of war.