Sentence examples for war authorities from inspiring English sources

But it would essentially concentrate within the executive branch the power to both declare and wage war — authorities that our founding fathers rightly separated.

In Gori, which came under Russian bombing in the war, authorities erected a replica of the Berlin Wall, a pointed commentary on Russia's foothold on Georgian land.

On July 27, the 50th anniversary of the armistice that suspended the Korean War, authorities abruptly canceled a military parade that Mr. Kim was expected to review in Pyongyang.

The letter added: "The Queen has caused Mr and Mrs Smith's request concerning their youngest son to be forwarded for consideration of the war authorities".

If lawmakers don't tackle the 2001 AUMF, it "risks simply adding to what has become a tangled and ambiguous web of war authorities from which a president might pick and choose without explanation," reads the letter.

When engaged in an endless, borderless war fought against a concept (terror), there is always an exception (a state of war) authorities can use to suspend even the most basic rights afforded by law.

For Senator Clinton, the proposal to repeal the president's war authority is the latest in an evolution on the Iraq war.

Mrs. Clinton said her push for a new vote on the war authority did not mean she would oppose whatever new spending measure might emerge from negotiations between Congress and the White House.

Mrs. Clinton pointedly noted that she voted in 2002 to put a one-year limit on Mr. Bush's war authority, an effort led by Mr. Byrd that failed.

Because of Professor McPherson's reputation, the annual tour attracted hundreds of students, as well as their parents, uncles, grandparents and anyone else who caught wind of the chance to walk Little Round Top (free of charge) with the nation's pre-eminent Civil War authority.

Republicans are loath to do anything that would rein in the president's war authority.