Sentence examples for approved a war from inspiring English sources
To allay Israel's concerns, Mr. Bush has approved a war plan that calls for American forces to seize land in western Iraq to destroy Scud missiles that could reach Israeli cities.
Earlier this year, after a long fight with the White House, Congress approved a war spending measure that also contained billions of dollars for Gulf Coast recovery, military active duty and veterans' health care and agricultural assistance.
The House approved a war spending bill on Thursday with a provision that would include $10 billion to help school districts avoid educator layoffs, paying for the effort, in part, with $800 million in cuts to several of President Obama's key education initiatives.
The by-now-familiar refrain that Mr. Bush has not yet made any decisions about Iraq may literally be correct, in the sense that he may not yet have approved a war plan, but it smacks of the semantic games that administrations often play to disguise very real preparations for war.
On Thursday, the House approved a bipartisan war-financing bill that included the 13-week extension of benefits.
Congress has not approved a declaration of war since World War II.
Congress overwhelmingly approved a declaration of war on May 13, but the United States entered the war divided.
He reminded his fellow senators that Congress had not approved a declaration of war and maintained that Lincoln's enlistment of men and expenditure of funds for the war effort were unconstitutional.
After skirmishes along the Rio Grande between Mexican forces and American forces led by General Zachary Taylor, Congress approved a declaration of war and President James K. Polk called upon the states to draw up 50,000 volunteers to be alongside the army.
After all, it was founded in 1917, when the War Cabinet approved a proposal for the creation of a national war museum to record the events still taking place (it opened in 1920).
It insisted on passing a $23 billion water-resources bill which the president had said was too expensive.The House of Representatives voted to approve a $50 billion war-funding bill.
