Sentence examples for believe war from inspiring English sources

Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser to the Foreign Office, resigned in March 2003 because she did not believe war with Iraq was legal.

"Therefore, I will vote to disapprove the agreement, not because I believe war is a viable or desirable option, nor to challenge the path of diplomacy.

The reason so many Democrats believe war with Iran is inevitable, of course, is that the administration is so flagrantly rerunning the sales campaign that gave us Iraq.

American pacifists of the past knew that, and we need people like them today: people who don't believe war is inevitable, who will challenge what we assume and accept, and who will work to end it.

It probably isn't true that "not even pacifists" any longer believe war can be abolished, that photos have a "deeper bite" in the memory bank than movies or television, that "the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked," and that "most depictions of tormented, mutilated bodies do arouse a prurient interest".

The doctrine does not assume that war is per se evil; and if it doesn't believe war can ever be intrinsically good, it foresees that, in the right circumstances and subject to the right conditions, war can be a necessary and sometimes the only means of preventing evil.

Americans tend to believe wars settle things.

The pacifist in Paul and Mr. Bakerr) continues: "People believe wars are inevitable, that human nature can't change, but think of capital punishment.

Ceku has said that he always believed war was the only way that Kosovo's Albanians would ever be free of Serbian domination.

"No sane person wants war, but I believe a solid majority will support the president if he believes war is necessary," said Representative Peter T. King, a Republican from Seaford.

problem ("The French military general believes war with the United States is inevitable… and now sports").