Sentence examples for authorizing an attack from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the Senate quickly postponed plans for a vote authorizing an attack.

A Security Council resolution effectively authorizing an attack on Iraq never came to a vote.

Mr. Bush pledged this week that he would consult with Congress before ordering any invasion, but he stopped short of promising to ask for a vote authorizing an attack.

At the United Nations, the United States, Britain and Spain kept up their pressure on six undecided nations to vote in support of a Security Council resolution authorizing an attack on Iraq.

An hour after the cabinet authorized an attack on the Old City, a halftrack carrying the paratroop brigade commander burst through Lion's Gate opposite the Mount of Olives.

B'nai B'rith has strongly supported a Congressional resolution to authorize an attack on Iraq.

Although Al Qaeda was an exclusively Sunni association, neither bin Laden nor Zawahiri had ever authorized an attack on Shiites.

Nor has Washington settled on who would authorize an attack; experts see roles for both the president and military commanders.

Then Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader, pledged that Congress would vote within weeks on a resolution to authorize an attack, with its passage all but assured.

If force must be used, those nations believe it should be done under the terms of a second Security Council resolution on Iraq, one that would explicitly authorize an attack.

If Mr. Bush decides to authorize an attack on Iraq, the Pentagon hopes to carry out airstrikes from Turkish air bases as it did during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.