Sentence examples for authorizing war from inspiring English sources

Along with Kerry, Hagel voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing war against Iraq.

These days, when it comes to authorizing war, Congress generally sits there silently, except for the occasional clapping.

The United Nations remained divided yesterday over a proposed United States-backed resolution authorizing war against Iraq.

Three Croatian generals are being prosecuted at The Hague for authorizing war crimes in the Balkans in 1995.

Another Kyodo survey suggested that 68percentt of the country's legislators did not support an attack regardless of whether a United Nations resolution authorizing war was adopted.

Last spring, in the period before the Iraq war, the United States failed to get the nine votes necessary for a resolution authorizing war.

Then there remains the fact that since Korea, presidents repeatedly turned to Congress for authorizing war-making resolutions and, most significantly, appropriations to keep troops in the field.

Graham told reporters if Obama is so eager to get a new AUMF, and if Congress wants to live up to its role in authorizing wars, the president should embrace McConnell's proposal.

Reed, unlike Hagel, voted against the resolution that authorized war in Iraq.

Congress, after all, is the only branch of government that can authorize war.

The acting general counsel of the Pentagon said it even "authorized war against al-Qaida's associated forces in Mali, Libya and Syria".