Sentence examples for explicit war from inspiring English sources

During 2014, the jihadis of Isis made the obliteration of 1916 lines an explicit war aim.

The dispute is significant since the United Nations report asserts that "the destruction of the mill was carried out for the purpose of denying sustenance to the civilian population," an explicit war crime.

The Arab leadership themselves launched an explicit war of genocide in 1948 and again in 1967, pledging "to push the Jews into the sea".

According to Heather Phares of AllMusic, "Pioneers" and "Price of Gas" exemplify the political undercurrent on Silent Alarm, the latter including the explicit chant "War / War / War / War".

The Kurds in the north of Iraq have pulled away from the rest of the country; as the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites becomes an explicit land war, Iraq threatens to break apart.

To beat back Democrats, he is waging an explicit race war rooted in blatant lies.

He and Senator Richard Lugar submitted a measure that would have required the Bush administration to either get explicit authorization for war from the U.N. Security Council or to stipulate to Congress that Iraq posed an "imminent threat" to U.S. security.

This objection also reminds Christian pacifists that there is explicit advocacy for war in the Old Testament and that Paul's letter to the Romans allows the sovereign to use the sword to execute God's wrath.

A case against the policy is that it is militarizing and making explicit a Cold War-influenced containment approach that may prove provocative, tempting Beijing to prove its prowess by entering military conflicts over disputed islands in the South China Seas or over Taiwan earlier than it might have otherwise.

But I could not ignore that it provided explicit authority, under the War Powers Resolution and the Constitution, to go to war.

Popper claimed he'd never made any explicit reference to the war.