Sentence examples for the option of war from inspiring English sources

The option of war has had its day.

There is, of course, still the option of war instead of peace talks.

It does not want peace, but the option of war is not easy for it," he said.

16 January: Blix says UN inspectors have found illegally imported conventional arms materials in Iraq and only fuller cooperation with his team could avert the option of war.

The option of war might seem a priori to be the swiftest, but let us not forget that having won the war, peace has to be built.

The option of war as a solution to the problem of the slump has been rendered absurd, though not impossible, because of the development of nuclear weapons, and I think these factors make the situation slightly different.

Still, the option of keeping war politically palatable by limiting the body count has never been a serious one here.

This leads us to the precondition of the absence of weak or generally unaligned states within the new balance of power system as to exclude the option of proxy wars.

"If we're going to give the president the option of going to war -- but we don't declare war -- then I think there ought to be some provision in the law that says: If you have not declared war, then you must come to Congress for the authority to stop loss," Jones told HuffPost.

"But certainly even Powell is now talking within the administration about the option of going to war without United Nations approval".

The recently declassified papers show that Nixon wanted an alternative to the option of full-scale nuclear war.