Sentence examples for war preventive from inspiring English sources

Self-Defense, Preemptive War, Preventive War and the Crime of Aggressive War Self-defense is our automatic right as individuals and it is an automatic right of nations.

Unlike the US, the UK and perhaps other members of the alliance were not ready to claim a right to preventive war against Iraq regardless of security council authorisation.

Your writer does a fair job of evaluating the positive goals of the Iraq war -- preventive war, removing a dictator and establishing democracy.

What is urgently required is exactly what did not happen prior to the August war — vigorous preventive diplomacy.

The honest case for war was "preventive" -- to stop a tyrant with malignant intentions from acquiring lethal capabilities or transferring those capabilities to other enemies.

Brissot understood the war as preventive — "une guerre offensive," he called it — to defeat the despotic powers of Europe before they could organize their counter-Revolutionary strike.

You still hear the war called preventive, meaning we attacked Saddam because he was (a) capable of attacking us and (b) planning to do so, though maybe not right away (and probably not via Brownsville).

All this makes the current war a preventive one, which international law tends to consider illegal and illegitimate without United Nations sanction, regardless of the venality of the foe or the assemblage of the coalition of nations against it.

Something "had" to be done, and Berlin gave its client a blank check to issue an ultimatum so extreme as to force war, a "preventive" war whose scope snowballed because of an unbroken chain of miscalculations into the First World War.

Archbishop Renato Martino, the prefect for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, recently told reporters that a preventive war was a "war of aggression" and therefore not a "just war".

Moltke had already raised the notion of preventive war, and in the kaiser's war council of December 1912 he blustered, "War, the sooner the better".