Sentence examples for Begin hostilities from inspiring English sources

It allows Obama in effect to begin hostilities against an enemy in Syria, relying on the war declarations passed with the authorizations to use military force in 2001 and 2002 that targeted al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

This was borne in on a suburban friend of ours shortly after Russia and Germany began hostilities.

Savarkar allegedly retorted that only a fool would attempt to resist the British without being fortified by animal protein.The meeting is said to have begun hostilities between the two young Indian nationalists; whether or not the story is apocryphal, there were real reasons for antipathy.

In Korea and Vietnam we intervened after the enemy had begun hostilities.

1. How Caesar and Antony began hostilities against each other (chaps. 1‑14).

Hirohito told Kido to "quickly control the situation" because "the Soviet Union has declared war and today began hostilities against us".

Israel said Hamas began the hostilities.

With Kuwait the launchpad for any attack, the airport is expected to close for civilian flights, possibly for several days, after hostilities begin.

And yet there, in the tumbling final pages, hostilities begin and Hans Castorp enlists to meet (it seems) his death in the field of battle.

If she continues to support the United States once hostilities begin, some of the anti-American rage could be turned against her.

Because "hostilities" is "an ambiguous standard," he has argued, the president need not withdraw forces to meet the resolution's requirement of an automatic pull-out, 60 days after "hostilities" begin, absent express Congressional approval for the war.