Sentence examples for war measure from inspiring English sources

For the pragmatic, it was a war measure.

Lincoln himself doubted the constitutionality of his step, except as a temporary war measure.

Additionally, it was a war measure that was unlikely to survive constitutional challenges.

"I only took up coaching as a war measure," she said.

It was a war measure intended to release strong young women for industrial work.

He issues the Proclamation "as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing the rebellion".

Trudeau responded by invoking the War Measures Act.

During its opening months, the Congress displayed bipartisan unity in supporting war measures.

Mr. Trudeau sent army troops to Quebec and suspended civil liberties there under Canada's War Measures Act.

In 1804 Bourrienne was sent to Hamburg in order to conduct French commercial war measures against Britain.

Quebec's government asked for federal intervention, prompting enactment of the War Measures Act, which suspended the usual civil liberties.