Sentence examples for authorization resolution from inspiring English sources

The war authorization resolution, which John Kerry voted for, gave the president authority to use military force if he determined that other means were not adequate to defend United States national security and to enforce Security Council resolutions concerning Iraq ("Stumping Bush Calls Kerry a Reluctant Ally on Iraq," news article, Aug. 11).

That authorization resolution failed 123 to 297.

indefinitely postponed an initial vote on an authorization resolution approved by the Foreign Relations Committee last week.

The panel's chairman, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), said the administration's Syria policy "doesn't build confidence" and that the House would make its own revisions to the authorization resolution.

When President Obama sent his war authorization resolution over to Capitol Hill he said the purpose of the military action was to "hold the Assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior, and degrade their capacity to carry it out".

At the United Nations, one senior diplomat pointed out that the peremptory tone coming from the Bush administration has not helped Washington as it seeks a the necessary nine votes in the Security Council for a war-authorization resolution.

The United States will now claim authorization under Resolution 1441.

From the start, Russia spoke against the NATO military operation in Libya, though like China, it chose not to use its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block the authorization of Resolution 1973.

"Republicans should support some version of the authorization of force resolution.

The purest anti-war stance was taken by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore)., who voted against both the resolution authorization force and the Democratic alternative urging continued reliance on sanctions.

It would stop well short of the explicit authorization to enforce the resolution that Mr. Bush has sought.