Sentence examples for war prohibited from inspiring English sources

Although the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution and congressional legislation after the American Civil War prohibited any such involuntary servitude in the United States, the former slaveholding states of the South devised certain legislation to make labour compulsory.

The larger-than-life image of a president who secretly sold missiles to terrorists in exchange for hostages and who used the money to conduct a war prohibited by our United States Congress deserves adulation for just one thing: the stagecraft of a Hollywood icon.Bruce JoffePiedmont, California.

The 1949 Geneva convention on protecting civilians in times of war prohibits deportations of individuals to any other country, human rights lawyers said yesterday.

Mr. Koh, of the State Department, told the conference that the United States carries out "at least two stages of legal review" on cyberwarfare operations — considering whether the law of war prohibits the use of "new weapons" altogether and, if not, how the law governs their use in "each particular operation".

Of course, in contemporary legal contexts the issue doesn't even get started, since the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments (ratified after the Civil War) prohibit the denial of civil rights to blacks.

The laws of war prohibit direct attacks on civilians.

The laws of war prohibit the occupying power from attacking, destroying, or withholding objects essential to the survival of the civilian population.

The Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War prohibits attacks on hospitals, "unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy".

Under the Chemical Weapons Convention CWCC) of 1993, the use of chemical weapons in war is prohibited, as is all development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, and transfer of such weapons.

The first executive order in American history, it declared the United States neutral in the Anglo-French war and prohibited Americans from participating on either side.

Use of CS in war is prohibited under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, signed by most nations in 1993 with all but five other nations signing between 1994 and 1997.