Sentence examples for war declaration from inspiring English sources

Four days later, Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of a war declaration.

"I could see what the intent was," Mr. Chafee said of Mr. Lott's weekend "war" declaration.

Jill backed us up, and told New York that a war declaration was not a correct interpretation.

Some may suggest that I have an over-identification with Scarlett O'Hara's impassioned post-Civil War declaration in the fallow fields of Tara: "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again".

But if, as he writes, "Germany and the United States would soon have been at war," declaration or no declaration, then why does the genesis of the declaration deserve a chapter of its own?

Then, passage of a war declaration by Congress would clear up all the legal and constitutional questions surrounding the current "police action" in Iraq; and finally, the prospect of actually declaring war would force both Congress and our society as a whole to think hard, avoid politically expedient vagueness, and finally figure out precisely who the actual enemy is.

Indeed, unlike most war declarations, George Bush's fatwa against him is personal.

Here, Obama's "ending the war" declarations begin to look far from reassuring, even before he "refines" his line after meeting the US commander, General Petraeus, in Iraq.

They demanded independence as a matter of right, as promised in war declarations and treaties, rather than as a matter of capacity for self-government as laid down in the mandate.

Even before news of the war declarations opening the War of the Spanish Succession arrived in the colonies, Moore proposed an expedition against Spanish Florida's capital, St . Augustine

However, an attempt at a punitive expedition against the Creek resulted in a rout of the Spanish and their Apalachee allies in October 1702, shortly before news of war declarations bringing England into the War of the Spanish Succession arrived.