Sentence examples for war act from inspiring English sources

The French have a saying à la guerre comme à la guerre: when you're at war, act that way.

Hence only the members of the government responsible for decisions about the resort to war act impermissibly when a state fights an unjust war.

Arrears of pay or allowances in connection with services in the Civil War: Act Dec. 22, 1911, c. 6, 37 Stat.

Private owners expanded their output in 1914, and following the appointment of David Lloyd George as munitions minister in 2015 the process accelerated with two major pieces of legislation, including the Munitions of War Act.

Green, guerrilla-styled military jackets and army-style caps are often worn and the chanting of Communist anthems including Bandiera Rossa and Bella Ciao (a popular Partisan song during the second world war) act as further markers of their politics.

Recap: Al Franken's 'Pay for War Act'; the truth about gas prices is scarier than the speculators; and will the White House lose control of Senate Democrats on the debt ceiling? 1) Jon Cohn's series on the Ryan budget.

The war acted as an accelerator.

During Isabella's minority (1833 43), her mother and Gen. Baldomero Espartero, a hero of the civil war, acted successively as regents.

"War acts on executive power as an accelerant," he writes, "causing it to burn hotter, brighter and swifter".

During the discussion of the Revised Statutes in Congress, Representative Lawrence read the relevant provisions of the post-Civil War Acts and then read § 1979. 2 Cong.Rec.

It also said: "These U.S. war acts have further laid bare the aggressive," extremely warlike and obdurate features of the Nixon Administration.