How to Use war footing in a Sentence

war footing

noun

• The question is whether everything needs to be on a war footing in the first place.
  — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• The two columns of Russian armor thrusting toward the city spurred Kyiv to go on a war footing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• In a 23-minute speech, Mr. Biden said the U.S. was operating on a war footing and urged the weary public to maintain vigilance against the virus.
  — Sabrina Siddiqui, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• At that time, the nation had been on war footing for months, one conflict raging in Afghanistan and another looming in Iraq.
  — Jonathan Lemire, ajc, 11 Sep. 2021
• The nation had been on war footing for months, one conflict raging in Afghanistan and another looming in Iraq.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2021
• O’Rourke’s own situation highlights the reason behind the change in virus war footing.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• Alternatively, a pivot to war footing could mean that older fighters such as the F-16 and F/A-18 will fly the bulk of combat missions.
  — David Williams, National Review, 20 July 2021
• Now with more than a year of treatment experience and the advent of vaccines, the mirror-image problem is emerging—how to switch back from a war footing to pandemic-free life.
  — Standish Fleming, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• What explains the delay in installing the oxygen plants when infrastructure should have been ramped up on war footing during a pandemic?
  — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• Beneath the surface calm here, daily routines are inching toward war footing.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Putting the state on war footing, invoking the language of conflict, is a brilliant political strategy.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Jan. 2018
• But the post-Thanksgiving vibe is one of great wariness among the public, and among scientists who are suddenly back on a war footing with an enemy that has killed 5.23 million people worldwide.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• When America has been on war footing the government has bought commodities for the purposes of making industries whole.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2020
• Europe is going to test what can be achieved on war footing, in a rush almost unprecedented in living memory now that the World War II generation is nearly gone.
  — John Ainger, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2022
• As Israel moved to a war footing, Netanyahu, with his background as an elite army commander, found himself on favorable turf: projecting toughness in the face of an external threat.
  — Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• Companies are on a war footing to attract and retain top talent, and in such a scenario, the metaverse serves as a key enabler to not just build a company’s brand but also build an engaged and productive workforce.
  — Sudhir Pai, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The proposal, if ratified by member nations, would put Europe’s economy on a war footing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• Now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is turning Europe’s trains and ornate imperial-era stations into a new refugee crisis network, putting them on a war footing yet again.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• For Newsom, whose administration has largely been on a war footing for the last 15 months, the decision to loosen the restrictions probably comes with little short-term political risk.
  — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
• No senior officials defected or fled, and the bureaucracy quickly went onto a war footing.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Now multiply that phenomenon across the foreign, finance and economy ministries and all the others, none of which are accustomed to operating on the war footing Mr. Scholz expects.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• But all of Ukraine is on a war footing, and the militarization of the general population is most visible in the thousands of civilians who are enlisting and training as part of ad hoc security forces.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• Every college and university is on a war footing about this and are trying to assemble as much information as possible.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• With the discovery of nuclear weapons in Cuba, the mission at the NSA shifted abruptly from uncovering secrets to assessing the enemy’s war footing in real time or as close to it as possible.
  — Susan Seubert, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• Yet, President Vladimir Putin hobbled the mobilization effort from the beginning, experts said, by refusing to put Russia on a war footing that would have allowed the military to start calling up reserves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• Russia is running short on troops because Putin has refused to call a general mobilization or put the country on a war footing, worried about possible domestic unrest.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2022
• The country also remains on a war footing with indefinite universal conscription for the military that has prompted many thousands to flee the country and seek immigration to Europe.
  — Paul Schemm, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• Russia has been unable to replenish its forces because Putin has balked at ordering a full mobilization or putting the country on a war footing, fearing that could lead to domestic unrest that could threaten his rule, officials said.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2022
• But so far, Israel has not sent weapons to Ukraine, nor joined a broad coalition of countries worldwide, including the seven largest industrial nations, in imposing harsh economic sanctions designed to isolate Russia and hamper its war footing.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• American society, the liberal internationalists avow, will have to remain on a war footing for the foreseeable future.
  — Daniel Bessner, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024