Sentence examples for overseas interventions from inspiring English sources

It offers a version of the world to the American public that bears no relation to reality, but works very well as a way of rationalising overseas interventions past and present.

Walker writes: "The moral cost of our continual overseas interventions has to include accepting a fair share of the victims of the wars to which we have contributed as legitimate refugees in our own land.

The United States and its allies must recognize their common fate as the natural defenders of the society of states of consent, while the United States and the European Union should form a new G2, committed to a post-Westphalian notion of sovereignty, yet assuring that their overseas interventions are governed by a new instrument of international law.

Obama and previous presidents have bypassed the legislative branch to engage the U.S. military in overseas interventions, usually by invoking the authority inherent in the president's role as commander in chief.

He had openly stated his belief in overseas intervention, and had acted on the belief.

Franklin D. Roosevelt understood even better than Wilson the need to take his case for overseas intervention directly to the nation.

There have been many criticisms of British overseas intervention in recent years, but one truly altruistic engagement for which the UK can be proud was its military intervention in Sierra Leone in 2000.

In the years following the victory, Athens pursued a policy of aggressive imperial expansion and overseas intervention, culminating in the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war with Sparta in 431, which lasted, on and off, until 404.

At one point the US commander in chief also appeared glassy-eyed and upset as he described the burden placed on American troops and their families of repeated overseas intervention.

So the next time someone waxes lyrical for armed overseas intervention in the name of liberal ideals or "defining struggles," remember what Albert Camus had to say about his fellow intellectuals' propensity for encouraging violence to others at a safe distance from themselves.

Simultaneously, China launched an unprecedented overseas intervention against Ebola virus in west Africa, dispatching 1200 workers, including Chinese military personnel.