Sentence examples for the existing war from inspiring English sources

"It's not effective, at best," Mr. Baker said of the existing War Powers Act during a news conference unveiling the commission report in July.

Current and former administration officials have said that in 2014, when confronted by the Islamic State's rapid conquest of Iraqi territory, Mr. Obama's advisers presented him with a choice: he could say that bombing ISIS was part of the existing war, or he could say it was a new war.

At 05 30, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General George Marshall, ordered MacArthur to execute the existing war plan, Rainbow Five.

Lawmakers would change the existing war powers law to permit a president to initiate short-term military deployments without congressional action but only repel and retaliate for an attack on the United States or U.S. troops, or to protect and evacuate U.S. citizens.

And he's the one that put these words together into the message he wanted to create, which in my mind is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party of the United States of America under its existing war mongering leadership.

The researchers compared the climate record with an existing "war index" — a log of hostile events based on how often certain keywords occurred in Maya inscriptions on stone monuments — and found a strong correlation between drought and warfare between cities. "About A.D. 660, you get indications of some social stress that goes up in tandem with this drying period," Dr. Kennett said.

It is in this context that a president can always point to some extraordinary circumstance of existing war or "imminent threat" or, as we see with the Islamic State, the mere fact of atrocity.

Existing war powers scholarship focuses overwhelmingly on the President's power to initiate military operations abroad and the extent to which that power is constrained by Congress.

He denounced war, but made war on his government in order to end an existing war for slavery.

It is an actually existing war, and Obama's purpose is clearly to bring it to a non-disastrous end.

Woodward's theory is that when Bush privately instructed Rumsfeld to update existing war plans for Iraq, on November 21 , 2001 it set things inexorably in motion.