Sentence examples for preventive force from inspiring English sources

The reference here is to a powerful clan leader by the name of Mumtaz Dughmush who is protected by his clan and by influential elements within the well-armed and highly resourceful Preventive Force.

Critics of Muhammad Dahlan, Fatah's strongest Gaza leader and its closest figures to both Israel and the United States say in private that he could secure Johnston's release because of his commanding position over the Preventive Force and his business links with the Dughmush clan.

In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, declared that France's refusal to support the American invasion was a choice between "two visions of the world" -- America's "swift and preventive" force and France's patient diplomacy.

Keohane, RO; Buchanan, A, Justifying Preventive Force: A Reply to Lee, Ethics & International Affairs (2005).

But one of Mr. Rajoub's deputies said that 1,000 of the officers in the preventive forces had decided not to accept a new boss and would probably resign as a group, contributing another element of instability to the West Bank.

The existing police agencies range from the preventive security force, which handles internal security matters, to separate forces of civilian police, military police, maritime police, "air police" and policewomen.

When he ran the Preventive Security Force in Gaza in the 1990s, he led a forceful crackdown on Hamas and has been reviled by the Islamist organisation ever since.National elections are set for January 2010.

Mr. Dahlan, for years the leader of the Preventive Security Force in Gaza, is more feared than loved here.

Through allies, Mr. Dahlan retains control of the Preventive Security Force, Palestinian officials and Western diplomats say.

"The U.S. Preventive Task Force is an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who make recommendations," Sebelius said at the time.

The apartment buildings were built by the Palestinian Preventive Security force for its members before the conflict began more than three years ago, but they were never occupied.