Sentence examples for facilitated war from inspiring English sources

On April 26 the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of having facilitated war crimes.

A recent report by Amnesty International highlights how, in Côte d'Ivoire, irresponsible international arms transfers directly fuelled the 2010-11 conflict and facilitated war crimes and human rights abuses on both sides.

Then there was the time that Montreal-based Anvil Mining facilitated war crimes in the Congo by arming, transporting, and paying soldiers to kill a half dozen rebels in a nearby town.

Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.

He was for clogging rather than facilitating war; but for facilitating peace".

For instance, training on aerial reconnaissance facilitated World War II Allied military operations [ 2]; analysts pored over stereoscopic photographs, becoming expert at (1) segmenting pictures into meaningful items to break camouflage from (noisy) backgrounds, and (2) discriminating fine details to distinguish V-weapons from innocuous pylons.

Mullen made a strong case that, rather than making this a bad time for a repeal, our two wars both increased the need and would even help facilitate it: "War does not stifle change; it demands it".

While the media has been focused on the violence Syria and Iraq, they've virtually ignored Yemen - and the United States plays central role in facilitating the war.

In LeBor's telling, the B.I.S., an obscure "bank for central banks" set up in Basel, Switzerland, in 1930 to facilitate World War I reparations payments from Germany, has been a critical, if secretive, actor in the global economy for more than 80 years.

In the early 1980s a "charity" facilitating Arab war tourists developed into a 2,000-strong 2,000-strongce helping the Afghans fighting the Soviets.

However, the FBI has no intention of limiting the use of digital wiretaps on American citizens solely to facilitate the war on terror.