Sentence examples for war initiative from inspiring English sources

The war initiative is solely a product of the Bush administration.

Conscripted to carry out covert tasks for the U.S. as part of a Cold War initiative, much of her time in the pilot is spent trying to swap out a passport in a Russian's briefcase.

"I grew up with really radical parents who went to jail for their beliefs," said Hanning, whose parents publicly demonstrated against multiple American war initiatives.

The Iran-Iraq war was well under way, and in December of that year, Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Iraq as the White House envoy to confirm the United States' support of Saddam Hussein's war initiatives.

Supporting our troops should not mean blind support of our government's war initiatives.

But these efforts are as misguided as most "supply-side" drug war initiatives, and the collateral damage tends to be excruciating.

His master stroke was the "Star Wars" initiative.

Robert S. Cooper, 75, former assistant secretary of defense and director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency during the Reagan administration's Star Wars initiative, died of prostate cancer July 2 at his home in Easton, Md. Dr. Cooper led DARPA from 1981 to 1985, testifying repeatedly before Congress on such matters as the Stealth bomber and supercomputers.

Partisans of President Reagan's Star Wars initiative assert that it was the costs of keeping up with technological innovation by the West that finally brought the "evil empire" to its knees.

Description Panel discussion at the University of Chicago titled "Space Rights and Space Wars". The group addressed issues in military and scientific applications of orbital space technology such as the Reagan administration's proposed Strategic Defense ("Star Wars") Initiative.

"NEON Inc. was like a high school team trying to tackle a job that requires the skills of the NBA [National Basketball Association] or the NFL [National Football League]," said Abrahamson, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who managed the controversial Strategic Defense ("Star Wars") Initiative during the Reagan administration.