Sentence examples for approved the war from inspiring English sources

Fifty-seven percent of 12th graders understood the reason Congress approved the War Powers Act.

As they gathered, the House of Representatives had already approved the war resolution.

Congress, which only narrowly approved the war that Mr Bush's father waged against Saddam Hussein, is burying partisan differences.

Shortly after noon, the House approved the war bill on a voice vote and recessed for two weeks.

There, she held up banners reproduced from archive documentation of past demonstrations, from "Who Approved the War In Vietnam?" to "Ratify The ERA Now!" – the rallying cry of those in favour of equal rights for women.

In a single day, the House voted down a resolution that would have approved the war and then, just hours later, voted down a bill that would have denied the president the power to spend any new money on the war.

The President is right to ask Congress to work on the budget; he is wrong to have failed to ask Congress to debate and approve the war we are engaged in.

That is the next step," Dempsey said, referring to broader targets the Pentagon will be allowed to strike once President Obama and Iraq approve the war plan.

Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor who previously served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, says that because lawmakers voted for a $1.1 trillion government spending bill that clearly appropriates money for the fight against the Islamic State, they also voted to approve the war itself.

Congress, after all, did approve the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

4.56pm BST In the Lords Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general who approved the Iraq war (although only just) is speaking now.