Sentence examples for authorising force from inspiring English sources

But he abstained on the resolution authorising force in Libya (having originally wanted to vote no, it is said).

For that he needs a tough UN resolution, backed up by a vote in Congress authorising force if diplomacy fails.

In the first, Lord Goldsmith conceded that "a court might well conclude" that a second UN resolution expressly authorising force may be necessary.

When it became clear that it could not obtain a new UN resolution authorising force against Iraq, the government dusted down the old ones, which had been drafted in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

But most of them cannot do this because they voted in favour of last year's congressional resolution authorising force in Iraq.Until recently, that dilemma had bedevilled their campaigns and allowed Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, to become a more serious challenger because of his forthright condemnation of Mr Bush.

Blair said he was aware of Goldsmith's concerns about the legality of attacking Iraq, but added: "I believed that he would, once he was abreast of the British, but most of all the US negotiating history, conclude that 1441 meant what it said – Saddam had a final opportunity to comply, failure to do so was a material breach, and that revived the earlier resolutions authorising force".

Four justices concurred with her that Congress had implicitly authorised the Bush administration to hold enemy combatants when it authorised force in the war on terrorism.

A subsequent article that would authorise force would be excluded and not cited in the text precisely to allay Russian fears.

But if Mr Xi believes that the only way of ensuring stability is for the party to reassert its control, it remains possible that he will authorise force.

Russia seeks to avoid Chapter 7, or at any rate wording that would authorise force without a vote in which its veto would still count.

And yet when that fact is so obvious that it is staring us in the face, we are told that any resolution that authorises force will be vetoed.