Sentence examples for prosecution of aggression from inspiring English sources

His concern, which I share in part, is that criminal prosecution of aggression could serve to increase political tensions, harden positions and undermine alternative avenues to ending conflicts, such as negotiated solutions.

States party to the Rome Statute agreed that no sooner than 2017, the U.N. Security Council may refer aggression to the Court for prosecution of aggressive leaders from any nation, regardless of whether it has joined the Court.

Two further, though probably more remote possibilities, are an attempted prosecution for murder on the grounds that the military action is unlawful and an attempted prosecution for the crime of aggression.

The British Attorney General had warned Tony Blair that military action without explicit UN authorisation could be judged illegal and might lead to a future prosecution for the crime of aggression.

It was precisely that sort of attempt to talk not merely in the register of prosecution and military aggression, but also of understanding root causes, whether at an anti-Iraq war rally in Chicago or at a Presidential speech in Cairo, that left so many wondering if Barack Obama would have the strength to "go after" Osama bin Laden.

Unintended, collateral civilian casualties can be excused during the prosecution of an otherwise just war, wherein the end is the repulsion of aggression and the means are aimed at legitimate military targets.

So there you have it, Blair is immune from prosecution because the only authority with the jurisdiction does not yet have a working definition of crimes of aggression.

The Nuremberg principles, which arose from the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, define as an international crime the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances".

Refractions of aggression.

"There is a lot of aggression.

"Japan fought a war of aggression.