Sentence examples for repudiation of war from inspiring English sources

We know about Europe's current repudiation of war, the legacy of its two terrible conflicts in the 20th century.

They had different and contradictory motives and tactics, but their repudiation of war challenged the idea that man's imperfections, and reason's limits, made war acceptable.

He links these wild imaginings to the hippies' repudiation of war, rejection of conventional mores, and pursuit of a peaceful and egalitarian sexual freedom.

McCarthy's repudiation of the war policies of the Johnson Administration was also to the left of the mainstream of his party, and his views after 1968 grew so eccentric that they seemed self-conscious, as though he had made politics into a kind of performance art, in an age when people had lost their taste for performance.

And that is why we won't see elected officials in Washington try to bring back the draft, as much as it may be needed: it would be a even more dramatic repudiation of the war in Iraq, with people who are drafted refusing to go.

Nicholson Baker's popular book — I tremble for my country when I regard the best-seller list — is a pacifist repudiation of World War II, and I have no doubt that Martin Amis would despise it; in this cause, too, I would march with him.

The youthful volunteers for McCarthy, motivated by their strong desire for peace in Vietnam, proclaimed their candidate's victory a repudiation of the war.

Seward advised Johnson to state, in his first annual message to Congress, that southern states meet three conditions for readmission to the Union: repeal of secession, repudiation of the war debt incurred by the rebel governments, and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The target of that jibe was clear; and if it wasn't his repudiation of the Iraq war made it so.

This calculation is no doubt correct: among most Democrats, repudiation of the Iraq war is the entry fee, and in the opinion journals and blogs far more effort has gone into settling the accounts of 2003 than into thinking through the dilemmas of 2006.

A repudiation of the Iraq War and all that it signifies will rejuvenate the far Left as well.