Sentence examples for justified war from inspiring English sources

The French foreign minister then insisted that "nothing" justified war now.

And yet this truth must coexist with another — that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.

And yet this truth must coexist with another that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.

Last month in Hobart harbour I watched as Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's latest weapon in their justified war against Japanese whalers, readied itself for departure.

A typical example, by a retired US army intelligence officer, Ralph Peters, heaped praise on a "flawless" Colin Powell for doing "a superb job" in revealing "hard evidence" which justified war on Iraq.

Loot emerged not only in Germany and Austria but elsewhere, including the Netherlands, France and Britain well as in Russia where much is claimed as justified war loot from the Germans.

Of course, even in Europe only a pacifist minority denies the existence of necessary, unavoidable, justified wars.

"He is a criminal who committed massacres against the Palestinian people and justified wars in Gaza," Hazem Qasem, a spokesman for Hamas, said by telephone.

Morally justified wars in the foreseeable future, under the auspices of the UN, as they should be, are likely to involve conventional forces.

The war that most damaged the UK's reputation was the Boer War of 1899-1902 – though in retrospect, the least justified wars were the two fought in China to keep the market for opium open.

Burmese rulers, known as "kings of righteousness", justified wars in the name of what they called true Buddhist doctrine.