declare war

If an answer was not ready in three days, war would be declared at once.

When I went in, war had all but been declared.

I guess it's time a war was declared on the home front.

He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq.

For example, the Government declared war on cancer some time ago.

We could also get serious and declare war on those people.

"They thought somebody in Washington had declared war or something."

I don't want them to declare war on each other.

It looked like the river had declared war, and won.

It could only be a matter of days now before she declared war.