Sentence examples for dictate war from inspiring English sources

Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, praised Mr. Biden's measure but also predicted that any effort by Senate Democrats to dictate war strategy to the president would fail.

Halfway through his four-year term in office, it is increasingly clear that Obama's presidential priorities are being dictated by war hawks rather than the principles of Jesus.

If counterinsurgency doctrine dictates that wars are won and lost by building credible government, is any level of corruption tolerable?

This nationalistic sally broke all the rules of European Union behaviour, which dictate that the war may be cited only to highlight the miracle of post-war reconciliation.Yet when it comes to Poland's recent failures in Brussels, crass and amateurish are the epithets that matter more.

Tolstoy was forced to dictate most of "War and Peace" to his sister-in-laws after breaking his arm.

The U.S. could never dictate to the war in Syria, let alone having any leverage, and the failure to address the challenges there gave birth to a petulant child called ISIS.

They consist of the ability to wage war, dictate U.S. foreign policy, decide upon whether or not to confront Wall Street or bailout banks, and if we're to embark upon unfair trade deals or colossal oil pipelines.

But wars dictate that people choose sides.

The logic of our entry into the civil war dictated that we would have to see it through — we could not leave without getting rid of Qaddafi, and then, of course, dealing with what comes after him.

Tory little-Englandism has become a strange anachronism since the end of the Cold War dictated a broad Europe rather than a deep one, a loose bloc rather than a United States of Europe.

According to Badiou, though he champions communism, this competitiveness is a war dictated by self-interest and turns itself into animality which is the other name of competition in Capitalism (McGowan 2013: 9).