Sentence examples for council authorization from inspiring English sources
The French were infuriated in 1998 when the British and the Americans bombed Iraq without seeking council authorization.
What about the fact that the United Nations Charter outlaws aggression against or intervention in sovereign countries without Security Council authorization?
The Kosovo and Timor operations' prime achievement, he writes, was to establish the norm of resort to force without Security Council authorization.
When the question arises, it's much easier to throw up a smoke screen by contending, for example, that the council's 1990 authorization for the Persian Gulf war continues to provide all the authority needed.
A two-year study by a special committee recommended a thorough revision, and in 1937 the council gave its authorization to the proposal.
The experiments were assessed and approved in advance by the local ethics committee of the medical council of Hamburg (authorization 13/05).
The council members pulled out authorizations signed by various American officers.
Four council members voted for the authorization, two opposed it, and one abstained.
The five permanent members of the security council met to discuss an authorization of force but no vote was taken.
Since then, opposition parties have demanded that Mr. Blair disclose the specific advice he had received from Lord Goldsmith on whether a second, more specific authorization from the Council was needed before Britain could legally join the American-led invasion.
