Sentence examples for excuse of war from inspiring English sources
Suddenly, without the excuse of war Political arrest Never the twain shall meet ReprintsMr Karbaschi, aged 44, has won much praise as a capable administrator who has changed the face of a sprawling city, home to 10m people, which had been wrecked by neglect and Iran's eight-year war with Iraq.
Suddenly, without the excuse of war Political arrest Never the twain shall meet Reprints Related items Iran: Political arrestApr 9th 1998 Helping KhatamiApr 9th 1998Eager to see ties improve more rapidly, Ataollah Mohajerani, the government's liberal spokesman, said during a visit to Paris two weeks ago that he had been cheered by signs of change in American policy towards Iran.
With the backing of the Department of Justice, and the excuse of the war on drugs (and now the war on terror), property connected even vaguely to a crime whether one is ever convicted of said crime or not can be seized and auctioned off by local police, earning them a tidy profit without the hassle of a trial.
So the fact that it's continually being used in order to exploit us and to leverage potential abuses of power, more excuse for war all these things that feed money into this system... that's a problem.
Isolationists in the 1940s accused Franklin Roosevelt of deliberately letting the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour to provide an excuse for war.
It oversaw the removal of Yanukovich, and its neocons are desperately trying to develop an excuse for war with the Russians.
There is no excuse for war crimes.
There is no reason to believe, for example, that Madeleine Albright's visit to Pyongyang had a better result because she visited the mausoleum of the nation's communist founder, Kim Il Sung, in effect excusing his crimes of war and oppression.
But as the challenged court ruling found, the theater of war excuse for denying judicial review evaporates when the government decides to import detainees to the war zone.
The theater of war excuse for denying judicial review, the judge found, is unpersuasive when the government imports detainees from elsewhere.
And when you were speaking about our culpability, Mr. President, you fell back on the "fog of war" excuse--which properly understood is a variant of the whole "If-you-want-to-make-an-omelette-you-have-to-break-a-few-eggs" rationalization of violence.
