7 sentences with 'ensuing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ensuing and other words derived from it.
• « The ensuing battle was a decisive show of force for the Greeks: the hoplite citizen-soldiers proved far more effective than the conscript infantry of the Persian forces. »
• « Although initially organised to try to reconcile, at least in part, with Protestantism, the hardliners within the Church were victorious in the ensuing debates and the Council of Trent reaffirmed almost all the controversial parts of the Church's doctrine and disputed articles of faith; »
• « The ensuing Franco-Prussian War was short and sweet for Prussia; it began in the late 1870s and ended in early 1871. »
• « The Austrian government remained unwisely neutral during the ensuing war, which broke the alliance between it and Russia (after all, Russia had just put down the Hungarian uprising on behalf of Austria during the revolutions of 1848). »
• « The ensuing Russian civil war was brutal, eventually killing around ten million people (mostly civilians who were massacred or starved to death), and lasted four years. In the end, however, the Bolsheviks prevailed in Russia itself, Ukraine and Central Asia. »
• « Israel consistently sent larger, better trained and better equipped armies into the ensuing war, as the Arab states were also in their infancy, and the Jewish settlers in Palestine had spent years organising their own militias. When the dust settled, there were almost a million Palestinian refugees and a state that promised to be the centre of conflict in the region for decades to come. »
• « The ensuing Gulf War was an easy victory for the US and its allies, even as the USSR was heading for its disastrous demise as communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. »