Sentence examples for sponsored the war from inspiring English sources

A Republican member of Congress sponsored the War Crimes Act in 1996, which made "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions – like torture – federal crimes.

Already Pauline de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille, Louis's mistress from 1739 to 1741, had sponsored the war party that brought France into the inconclusive War of the Austrian Succession (1740 48) against Austria and Great Britain.

He sponsored the War Powers Resolution, which limited the Office of the President after it was leaked that Nixon had secretly been bombing Cambodia without approval from Congress, and died from ALS in 1986, the same year they opened the convention hall that now bears his name.

Mr. Mansfield said the war in Vietnam convinced him that "Congress had handed its power over to the president on a silver platter" and for that reason he co-sponsored the war powers bill of 1973.

"Hey, aren't you the guy who sponsored the Vietnam War?" a Van Nuys teen-ager asked Hope in the early seventies as he was buying an ice-cream cone.

It refuses to support politicians who have been linked to corruption of any kind, and it also puts a premium on maintaining the separation between religion and state, so that politicians who use their office, for example, to sponsor the pre-war shrine to the war dead, called the yasukuni shrine, are also excluded from its political support.

The earlier resolutions that AIPAC had sponsored during the war had passed unanimously, with no record of individual votes, but on this vote the roll was called.

Last week the New York Times ran a profile of Bayh that reminded us he co-sponsored the Iraq War Resolution in 2003, and the next day activists set up a Facebook group called "100,000 Strong Against Evan Bayh for VP".

Fulbright offered a caution against the rigid dogmas of the Cold War and sponsored the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which he believed would swiftly end the Vietnam War but which served instead as the sanction for its escalation.

The Service Employees International Union, which sponsored the measure, has amassed a war chest of just under $6 million so far.

In 2002, Lucasfilm sponsored the first annual Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards, officially recognizing filmmakers and the genre.