Sentence examples for initiated war from inspiring English sources

He was fiercely anti-war, and had no trouble pronouncing those that initiated war as putzes.

In January 1847 the by-then Whig-controlled House voted 85 to 81 to censure Polk for having "unnecessarily and unconstitutionally" initiated war with Mexico.

Rather, these deaths were at the hands of a committed faction of radical Islam that initiated war against the United States and made the thousands of people at the World Trade Center their primary target.

Last March 19, President Obama initiated war against Libya without congressional authorization as mandated by Article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution ("the War Clause").

Trump's latest immigration proposal would probably block entry into the United States for Afghans who put their lives at risk to support a U.S. initiated war.

I am not suggesting that Bush initiated war in Afghanistan as purely a noble war but at the same time to interpret that Afghan Taliban militants are "nationalists" and mere victim of adverse circumstances is stretching it too much.

Among other things, he initiated wars on cancer and drugs, imposed wage and price controls, enforced desegregation of Southern schools and established the Environmental Protection Agency.

Two days later Berchtold persuaded Franz Joseph to initiate war.

Hitler's absence allows none other than Stalin to move in and initiate war with the United States.

"The fundamental question is left unanswered: Why initiating war against Saddam is better than the next option, which is deterring and containing him," Professor Allison said.

There is no doubt that they intended that Congress and not the Pres. to possess the power to initiate war against other nations.