Sentence examples for an aggressive war from inspiring English sources

At Nuremberg in 1946, the Nazi leaders were convicted of the crime of aggression as a "crime against peace", and the waging of an "aggressive" war remained an international crime by the time of the Rome statute, which in 1998 set up the International Criminal Court, opening in 2002.

Zwingli approved of an aggressive war to forestall interference from the Roman Catholic cantons.

Divisions in the council became more acute after 1435, with Gloucester advocating an aggressive war policy.

In fact, Willy Mason was chided once for reacting to what is actually an aggressive war cry.

Woodward is on record as saying that, although Nixon waged an aggressive war with history after his resignation, "happily history won".

He was also found guilty of committing "a crime against peace, namely aiding in the conduct of an aggressive war", the judge, Vladyslav Devyatko, said.

So the US is an aggressive, war-mongeringing military machine, right?

So is the US an "aggressive, war-mongering military machine" obsessed with spending on defence and plumping up its armed forces?

The parallels between ant colony and man extend into genetics: Wilson has argued persuasively that not only is a co-operative spirit of altruism hard-wired, but also an aggressive war-mongering capacity; "within those two facts we see the whole human dilemma," he says, now, in passing.

In their eyes, it is an unjust, aggressive war they are covering in Afghanistan.

Did the Russians start an unjustified aggressive war to wrest territory from the independent country of Georgia?