Sentence examples for constrained military from inspiring English sources

It also led courts to reject claims of presidential wartime authority in decisions that constrained military and intelligence operations.

A variety of agreements from the Washington Naval Conference (1921 22) to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972)—constrained military hardware and forces in a variety of ways.

This, as much as anything, fuels the desire in Japan to change the country's pacifist constitution, imposed on it by the Americans after the second world war, in a way that would give Japan a less constrained military force.The increasing sophistication of South Korea's economy, and its growing links with China, also have consequences for Japan.

"The administration places a higher priority on military flexibility and does not want to constrain military options," said Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, an arms-control advocacy organization.

In the United States, two commonly recognized rules of engagement are standing ROE (SROE), which refer to situations in which the U.S. is not actually at war and thus seeks to constrain military action, and wartime ROE (WROE), which do not limit military responses to offensive actions.

Elections in Turkey since 1950 have shown that there is a permanent centre-right majority, though it was for long constrained by military interventionism and by military coups.

In Argentina, Peru, Uruguay and Ecuador, civilian power grew more organically as part of the perennial battle to constrain the military's proclivity to define its own missions and defence agendas as an expression of strength and autonomy.

On a practical level, aid programs are already being constrained by the military pullback.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said last week that even with the strong support from NATO and the European Union, the administration would not feel constrained in its military decision.

The city's physical expansion was not constrained either by military defenses (a highly influential factor on continental Europe) or by the intervention of state power (so evident in the town planning of Paris, Vienna, Rome, and other capitals of continental Europe).

Tactical weapons are severely constrained as useful military weapons as they must be delivered by aircraft vulnerable to air defences and are based too far from Russia to offer real military utility in the highly unlikely event of a conventional clash with Russia.