Sentence examples for pacifist state from inspiring English sources

The draft goes on to say that Japan will "ensure that its history as a pacifist state will continue".

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In a televised address on Tuesday, Abe said Japan would remain a pacifist state and denied that the new policy would mean sending troops into combat zones.

Yet his obsessions point to underlying realities both sides have been reluctant to acknowledge.The first is that the alliance with America has always been an odd and unequal one, with a proudly pacifist state sheltering under America's nuclear umbrella.

Leftists in Japan fear that the incident will encourage a departure from the country's pacifist constitution, whose Article 9 states that "the Japanese people forever renounce… the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes".

The emperor now emerged as a kind of closet pacifist, a mainly symbolic head of state, a constitutional monarch who was legally powerless to resist the military and may even have been coerced by them.

The mission, it said, breached the country's pacifist constitution.

If there is one area where Mr. Paul, a pacifist, is weakest in this heavily military state, it is national defense.

William Jennings Bryan, the only other secretary of state to resign, was a pacifist who resigned in 1915 over policies by Woodrow Wilson that he thought might lead to war.

Bryan served as Wilson's secretary of state but as a devoted pacifist, he resigned when the United States entered World War One.

The family of murder victim Michael Burdell had also appealed on Gardner's behalf, stating that Burdell was a pacifist who would have opposed the death penalty.