Sentence examples for emergency war from inspiring English sources

"I think the president would have to step in and use emergency war powers".

The House had approved money to save teacher jobs as part of an emergency war spending bill.

In the Senate, 26 Republican senators balked at an emergency war funding bill — an almost unthinkable position for them in the past — complaining that it was bloated and irresponsible.

Throughout Franco's rule, his authoritarian regime was based on the emergency war powers granted him as head of state and of the government by his fellow generals in 1936.

It was constructed by U.S. Army engineers March-November 19422) at a cost of $135 million as an emergency war measure to provide an overland military supply route to Alaska.

Democrats have argued that Mr. Bush made no such complaint last year when Congress, then held by Republicans, did not approve an emergency war spending measure until late spring.

And the House and Senate voted in May to bar the resettlement of detainees in this country and stripped an emergency war-spending bill of $50 million for closing Guantánamo until after the administration submitted a detailed plan.

Overall, the House bill authorizes $515 billion in spending for national defense and another $89.2 billion for the emergency war-fighting fund for a total of $604.2 billion.

He and Democratic lawmakers oppose the way the committee skirted automatic spending caps imposed by Congress in 2011 by increasing defense spending by padding the emergency war-fighting fund, which is not affected by the caps.

Members of Congress with any inclination to balk at President Obama's massive emergency war-funding request have found their case strengthened by two recent reports that question many of the administration's key premises and assumptions.

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 22-4 to authorize $523 billion in base funding for the Defense Department and the national security programs of the Energy Department as well as an additional $90.2 billion for the emergency war-fighting fund.