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
  • From the title itself, Gombrowicz is on a war footing.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Beneath the surface calm here, daily routines are inching toward war footing.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 10 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Despite putting Russia’s economy and society on a war footing, Putin may need more than just time to win.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
  • O’Rourke’s own situation highlights the reason behind the change in virus war footing.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Kyiv is also on a full war footing, with its government and population steeled against the damage and human losses that come with a major conflict.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Putting the state on war footing, invoking the language of conflict, is a brilliant political strategy.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Jan. 2018
  • No senior officials defected or fled, and the bureaucracy quickly went onto a war footing.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The proposal, if ratified by member nations, would put Europe’s economy on a war footing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • America’s reactionary minoritarians once again went on war footing.
    — Rick Perlstein, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Advocating environmentalist war footing while downplaying the much greater consequences of a much deadlier possible catastrophe is a poor response to both.
    — Andrew Follett, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Earlier Monday, Blinken had been rushed to a bunker by his diplomatic security service agents for several minutes after rocket sirens went off in Tel Aviv, punctuating the war footing the area is on.
    — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • 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

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