Sentence examples for inherent war from inspiring English sources

The administration asserted that it did not need court approval because of the president's inherent war powers, but critics on the left and right said the program violated the law.

Presidents have a fair number of inherent war powers, including a broad allowance to use force against an "imminent threat" for up to 60 days before seeking congressional approval.

Given the vast size of Iraq and the communications difficulties inherent in war, the information may be incomplete.

By its inherent nature, war is horrific, but its horrors must not shape our abstracted understandings of morality.

"These crimes happen not because they are inherent to war, but because the global climate allows it".

Lutz says the images of 630 burning oil wells, torched by the retreating Iraqi army in Kuwait in 1991, advertised the inherent 'ecocide' of war.

For example, use of lethal force is inherent to waging war, whereas in law enforcement governed by international human rights law in peacetime, the use of lethal force may only be used as a last resort.

Defence sources say privately there have been no prosecutions of soldiers over the alleged attacks on Afghan civilians, as the incidents can be blamed on the inherent confusion of war.

The Justice Department says in its own "white paper" that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs clandestine surveillance within the United States, must be unconstitutional if it conflicts with the president's inherent authority during war.

Because American civilians have born little comparative sacrifice over the past ten years, it is of tremendous benefit for civil-military relations that the most senior officers of the US military can articulate and educate by giving personal testimony of the inherent costs of war.

These are the sorts of complexities inherent in how war is sold and consumed.