Sentence examples for for war before from inspiring English sources

Whereas Australia had been virtually spoiling for war before 1914, passivity became the international keynote after 1920.

They are the "sexing up" of the case for war before the invasion, most notoriously by exaggerating what intelligence services knew about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and the mismanagement of the occupation afterwards.

We've mobilized for war before, quite successfully.

Are you looking forward to another I-was-for-the-war-before-I-was-against-it general election campaign?

Tony Blair wrote to George W Bush eight months before the Iraq invasion to offer his unqualified backing for war well before UN weapons inspectors had complete their work, saying: "I will be with you, whatever".

Some images had been used to indict Arkan for war crimes before he was assassinated in 2000.

See articleAttendance requiredThe prosecution opened its case against Radovan Karadzic at the start of his trial for war crimes before a tribunal in The Hague.

"We will try to ensure all legal, material and personnel prerequisites to carry out and speed up trials of all those indicted for war crimes before domestic courts," he said.

With the political winds now against more civilian prosecutions of Guantánamo detainees, the plans to press forward with additional commission trials may foreshadow the fates of many of the more than 30 remaining detainees who have been designated for eventual prosecution: trials in Cuba for war crimes before a panel of military officers.

On September 11 , 1945 after Japan's formal surrender, Tōjō shot himself in a suicide attempt, but he was nursed back to health and on April 29 , 1946 with other Japanese wartime leaders, was indicted for war crimes before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.

Throughout the campaign Blair has stoutly defended the indefensible, brushing aside fresh evidence that he was given at best ambiguous advice about the legality of the war, which he concealed from cabinet and parliament, and that he had taken his decision for war well before he has ever admitted - something Hugo Young perceived at the time.