Sentence examples for war authorized from inspiring English sources

Last year, in the previous annual version of the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress included a provision stating that the government had the authority to detain Qaeda members and their supporters as part of the war authorized shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

He justifies all his actions by saying that they prevented another terrorist attack on American soil, without ever explaining how the Iraq war, authorized on the basis of faulty intelligence, fits into that assertion.

Among other things, President Obama has unilaterally commenced war, authorized the assassination of American citizens abroad and denied the writ of habeas corpus to detainees not accused of a crime.

Rather than explaining how such a ban accorded with the religious freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution, or how it would be enforced (most passports don't list a person's religion), Trump sought to wrap himself in the mantle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, during the Second World War, authorized the detention of German, Italian, and Japanese people.

Even a leading candidate for president in 2016 seemed oblivious to the fact that a war authorized by his own brother was an unmitigated disaster.

His texts, however, provide little in the way of philosophical justification and he dismisses the entire just war tradition by stating, "I believe that the right of war authorizes us to ravage the country".

The rollback of Iraqi aggression in the Persian Gulf war, explicitly authorized by Security Council vote, showed as much.

But more recently, in general language in a law passed in April to appropriate money for the Iraq war, Congress authorized the president to void other laws concerning Iraq.

The War Office authorized the award of the clasp Malakand 1897 to the India Medal for those of the British and Indian armies who participated in this action.

Yes, the dumbest moves of the Cold War were authorized by a lionized Democratic president and accelerated by his successor, another grand Democrat, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

As soon as he became President, in 1969, Nixon scuttled pending talks to end the Vietnam War and authorized bombing of North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.