Sentence examples for authority of the security from inspiring English sources

In those circumstances, the UK's actions undermined the authority of the security council".

The UK government claimed to act on behalf of the international community, the report states, "to uphold the authority of the security council knowing that it did not have a majority in the security council in support of such actions.

"It claims not to have addressed legality, yet concludes that the UK has undermined the authority of the security council, found that 'the circumstances in which it was decided that there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from satisfactory', and obtained 37 independent submissions which point overwhelmingly to the manifest illegality of the war.

It also bolsters the authority of the UN security council and the United Nations in general, by giving them the power to implement the deal.

But a third of the men in these groups will refuse to drop their guns and come under the authority of the new security forces, reckons Hasham Bisher, who heads Tripoli's SSC.

As reiterated in Chilcot's statement, the inquiry concludes that the UK undermined the authority of the UN security council by proceeding, in the absence of a majority in the council, in favour of military action.

Blix called claims by Condoleezza Rice, the then US secretary of state, that Washington's policy was one of trying to uphold the authority of the UN security council as "totally absurd".

There can hardly be a more serious charge against a prime minister than that of taking a country to war before peaceful alternatives have been exhausted, undermining the authority of the UN security council, leaving Britain more at risk of a terror attack, and helping to provoke a conflict that led to the deaths of 179 British troops and of at least 150,000 Iraqis.

The UK, whether Downing Street or the Foreign Office, overestimated the UK's persuasive powers at the UN, ultimately "undermining" the authority of the UN security council, by accusing the majority of being in the wrong, when the very opposite was true.

Lorelie Fajardo, a spokesperson for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, said the kidnapping could raise questions about the authorities' control of the security situation.

In the absence of effective opposition to the general extension of state authority, the demands of the security apparatus and the rhetoric of politicians ratchet each other up.