Sentence examples for governing war from inspiring English sources

It is therefore now possible to imagine that the classical Islamic principles governing war would not be applied even by a self-consciously Islamic regime deciding when and if to detonate a nuclear device.

The title is ironic, theoretically, and consistent with the war-is-hell black comedy and gallows humour that often govern war movies, but "pretty village pretty flame" is an unmistakable provocation.

Pound's greatest fear was an economic structure dependent on the armaments industry, where the profit motive would govern war and peace.

It entirely omits Just War's jus in bello criteria -- the standards governing how war is waged -- chief among which is the absolute prohibition of intentionally harming noncombatants.

Bush's accounts of governing through war and natural disaster are never elegant, but they convey a sense of drama and urgency.

We like to think that we live in a more civilized world where international humanitarian law governs war practices.

In 1946, rape was named a crime against humanity by an Allied statute governing German war-crimes trials, but the law was never implemented.

Anaximander's system of just reciprocity ordered by time is replaced by a system governed by war: "It is right to know that war is common and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are so ordained" (B80).

Third, the Bush administration must secure a commitment from all stakeholders in a post-war Iraqi regime about the basic contours of a new constitution for governing Iraq before war begins.

Now, having intensified American military involvement in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, Mr. Trump may wind up repeating his predecessor's pattern of anti-Iraq-war campaigning and perpetual-war governing.

None of the 15-odd international conventions he signed, such as the Geneva ones governing rules of war, actually inducts Palestine into UN bodies.