Sentence examples for authorize force from inspiring English sources

7. Will the U.S. Congress vote to authorize force?

Without quick progress, efforts to authorize force would begin anew, he said.

The refusal to authorize force would be taken as an ideological pivot point.

Still, White House officials indicated that Mr. Obama might still authorize force even if Congress rejected it.

The other proposal would authorize force to support any new United Nations Security Council resolution on weapons of mass destruction.

He said his client "didn't authorize, force or coerce" anyone to take part in any illegal activity.

Although Dr. Petrich was not on these committees, he sat on the next three 180-day review committees, voting to authorize forced medication through January 1986.

Nevertheless, despite the decisive margin of support for the President's policy, it was clear that most members of Congress--including many who voted to authorize force--feel that Bush would be making a tragic mistake to expend thousands of American lives to liberate Kuwait.

The nuances and conditions of both his original support for authorizing force and his later critique of how that authority was used suggest that he recognizes that Iraq is an American responsibility, not just a Republican one.

Last year, Republican Senator Rand Paul, another likely Presidential contender, who is deeply skeptical about any military engagement, drafted a highly restrictive resolution authorizing force against ISIS which incorporated the repeal of the 2001 authorization.

Rockefeller had voted for the resolution authorizing force last fall.