Sentence examples for war threshold from inspiring English sources

President Bush, however, not only made that life-and-death decision but also wants to lower the war threshold to pre-emption for all future presidents.

Mark Warwick said there were significant cases and that discussions would be held further down the line over whether they met the war crimes threshold.

"There are lots of significant cases that we are investigating and at the appropriate time it will be a matter for us to discuss with the SPA whether they meet the war crimes threshold," he said.

John Garth, whose 2003 biography, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, draws on letters written by Tolkien in order to understand the influence of the first world war on his work, said: "Tolkien lost two of his three closest friends on the Somme, a loss he talks about in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings.

My war-tolerance threshold is a good deal lower than Mohammed's and lower still since I became a mother.

The threshold for war should always be high.

"I think we're at the threshold where war is going to be archaic.

"We have not cited names because we were looking at broader patterns of organisation and planning which breach the threshold of... war crimes and crimes against humanity..

Drones are part of a post-heroic age, he said, and in his view it is not a always a problem if they lower the threshold for war.

The group says each time Israel goes to war in Gaza, the threshold of what is acceptable is pushed up a level.

The Threshold Press War Project, an armed services propaganda outfit, has ordered Ben Reinking, the team's left end and son of a small-town newspaper editor, to write a series of articles called "The 'Supreme Team' on the Field of Battle".