Sentence examples for direct intervention against from inspiring English sources

The authors of the 9/11 Commission Report wrote, in 2004, "Since we believe that both President Clinton and President Bush were genuinely concerned about the danger posed by al Qaeda, approaches involving more direct intervention against the sanctuary in Afghanistan apparently must have seemed if they were considered at all to be disproportionate to the threat".

The authors of the 9/11 Commission Report wrote, in 2004, "Since we believe that both President Clinton and President Bush were genuinely concerned about the danger posed by al Qaeda, approaches involving more direct intervention against the sanctuary in Afghanistan apparently must have seemed — if they were considered at all — to be disproportionate to the threat".

But given that politicians in Britain and the US have ruled out direct intervention against the Assad regime, preferring to focus on IS, those calls are likely to go unheeded for now.

Pickles announced he would send in three commissioners to oversee the running of the council until spring 2017, and claimed the direct intervention was against everything he believed in.

Pickles claimed his direct intervention was against everything he believed in, but he said the four-month, £1m inquiry, revealed Rahman had sown division, adding the findings should make Rahman bow his head in shame.

The French president described the situation as "unacceptable" but also made it clear that he was not contemplating direct intervention of the sort he championed against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.

After the Cretan insurrection of 1866 against Turkish rule, he refrained from direct intervention but attempted to make alliances with Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Egypt against Turkey.

However, MPs voted against giving authority for a direct intervention last August.

Walsingham advocated direct intervention in the Netherlands in support of the Protestant revolt against Spain, on the grounds that although wars of conquest were unjust, wars in defence of religious liberty and freedom were not.

Any direct intervention by American forces would only strengthen the backlash now under way against soldiers and the police in Peshawar, said Farook Adam Khan, a lawyer here.

Fears of a Zimbabwean precedent that could rebel against them makes African leaders, democratic or not, wary of direct intervention in Harare's regime change.