Sentence examples for war principles from inspiring English sources

Like the principles concerned with truth-telling, commerce, sexual relations, and so on, just war principles were to be used in guiding and judging the acts of individuals.

By contrast, the pope's opposition to capital punishment is conditional, not absolute, and the church's application of just war principles is open to reasoned debate.

The three conditions for killing, the paper says, are that such a person poses an "imminent threat"; that capture is "infeasible"; and that the killings are "consistent with applicable law of war principles".

It is not part of the US armed forces and its drone program is not immune from liability by the law of war principles that might apply to the military drone program.

He said that "extraordinary care" is taken to ensure they conform to the "law of war principles" — a phrase human rights groups say is notable in that it does not claim to actually adhere to international law.

When both the Episcopal Church and the United States Catholic Bishops released documents in the early 1980s on the morality of nuclear deterrence, they judged the practice by reference to just war principles, which the Catholic Bishops expounded and analyzed in detail.

The Russians practice the U.S. Cold War principle — only capabilities, and not intentions, count in national security.

During follow-up questions, White House press secretary Dana Perino reacted negatively to a reporter who asked whether under the cold war principle of MAD (mutually assured destruction) Iran did not have the right to develop non-existent nuclear weapons to deter the use of Israel's nuclear weapons which don't exist.

Suffice it for our purposes to say that the DDE is the just war principle most frequently employed to defeat the DP pacifist's assertion that it is always wrong to kill innocent human beings.

Indeed, this crew of out-sized resumes, all of whom have hawkish profiles, registered as a sellout of the anti-war principles Obama campaigned on.

A few works operate on the "Junkyard Wars" principle: An egg-crate mattress is cut into a fringe and animated by an electric fan; a souped-up wheelbarrow becomes a "Rocket Car," above.