Sentence examples for authorization to kill from inspiring English sources

"These strikes are killing a lot of low-level militants, which raises the question of whether they are going beyond the authorization to kill leaders," Peter Bergen told me.

The leaflet says that they are protesting today against the army playing a role in politics and against "the defense minister calling for an authorization to kill Egyptians on the pretext of fighting terrorism when fighting terrorism does not require a mandate because that is the duty of the Armed Forces".

Colonel Hickey said that none of the procedures used in handling Mr. Hussein differed in any way from those applied to the lowliest of his followers, and that they included an authorization to "kill or capture" Mr. Hussein as judged necessary.

If Bush said he would like the authorization to kill innocent people and the OLC gave it to him, would it be legal?

The Washington Post reported last week that counterterrorism officials considered using the authorization law as the basis for the government's authority to kill Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a militant leader in Algeria and Mali, but decided it did not apply because he was not part of Al Qaeda or an associated group.

But he has relied on the 2001 authorization to use drones to kill terrorists far from the Afghan battlefield, and to claim an unconstitutional power to kill American citizens in other countries based only on suspicion that they are or might become terrorist threats, without judicial review.

2. Cuban Embargo: Vote to kill an amendment to a defense authorization bill that would create a commission to study the effectiveness of the American economic embargo against Cuba.

Approved 86 to 11, July 12. 2. Antimissile Tests: Vote to kill an amendment to a defense authorization bill that would require more stringent and thorough testing of a proposed national missile defense system.

There are a number of technologies that promise to kill the password — biometrics like the fingerprint authorization popularized by the new iPhone, USB security tokens, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), embedded secure elements (eSEs) and smart cards.

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, that the program was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives.

He said the legal right to kill U.S. citizens overseas without benefit of a trial was based in Congress' authorization to use all necessary and appropriate force against the perpetrators of 9/11 or those who helped them and the president's power "to protect the nation from any imminent threat of violent attack". .