Sentence examples for war excused from inspiring English sources

The affair is somehow permissible because "the war pressed, the war deranged, the war undid, the war excused".

But as the challenged court ruling found, the theater of war excuse for denying judicial review evaporates when the government decides to import detainees to the war zone.

The theater of war excuse for denying judicial review, the judge found, is unpersuasive when the government imports detainees from elsewhere.

Hayes says that's kind of like the oil executives blaming their corporate partners for the spill, like Bush explaining his administration's role on the WMD-Iraq War excuse, and like federal and local officials who made excuses for their botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

And when you were speaking about our culpability, Mr. President, you fell back on the "fog of war" excuse--which properly understood is a variant of the whole "If-you-want-to-make-an-omelette-you-have-to-break-a-few-eggs" rationalization of violence.

Nobody in England is defending the terrorists, just as nobody in World War II excused the Blitzkrieg with the Nazis' difficult childhood.

Algeria's 1991-2002 civil war helps excuse the long gestation period of its capital's metro; in other cases, sluggish and corrupt bureaucracies are the main obstacle.

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has excused war crimes in comments that the Sri Lankan government's actions in its civil war were "probably unavoidable", Tamil refugee advocates have said.

Excused from war service because of ulcers, he later went to work for Mr. Shumlin.

He wrote film scripts during World War II, having been excused from military service owing to a lung condition.

But this shouldn't excuse war crimes, or condemn those who tried to shine light on them.