Sentence examples for overt war from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the president and his team decided to tighten the standard for striking targets outside overt war zones.

The country remains very weak after decades of continual violence, emigration, upheaval, return, clandestine war waged by neighbors, and overt war waged by international powers.

The hawks proposed a change of their own, suggesting, as The Daily Beast has reported, that the president leave individual strike decisions in authorized areas outside overt war zones to the Pentagon and the C.I.A.

A new classified policy guidance signed by Mr. Obama will sharply curtail the instances when unmanned aircraft can be used to attack in places that are not overt war zones, countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

There can never be much prospect of it if, in periods without overt war, the nations are engaged in economic warfare; if they are struggling to ease their social problems by capturing markets and exporting unemployment wherever they succeed.

But the fact that the prime minister has to pledge "this is not like Iraq" every time, and the reluctance to move to overt war in Syria or Iran, shows that a lesson has been learned.

"Rhino Wars" also arrives at a moment when American military forces are being deployed throughout Africa, waging covert and overt wars without an official declaration, robust policy debate, or much conversation on television or any other news medium.

In Britain, by contrast, car factories in the 1960s and 1970s became daily battlegrounds, where militant shop stewards and complacent managers fought out an overt class war.

Pitting police against gangs in an overt turf war has spawned a mini arms race, with all sides – from drug dealers to beat officers – resorting to ever-higher calibre weaponry.

Because of political fragmentation and the disruption caused by numerous covert or overt civil wars, it is difficult to give an account of policing in Africa.

Mr. Acosta's interview has the only overt anti-war sentiment in the Bekman show, and there are few words of bitterness or recrimination.