Sentence examples for without a declaration from inspiring English sources

You're not allowed to go to war without a declaration of war".

The Nazis had invaded at 4am that morning without a declaration of war.

But it is unclear how successful that would be without a declaration of candidacy from Mr. Gore.

If it is done without a declaration of war, and is not an accidental byproduct of an attack on the military of another nation, it is terrorism.

The incident led, on Aug. 7, to Congress's passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the power to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia without a declaration of war.

The idea that there was once a time when American soldiers never went into battle without a declaration of war is an Edenic fantasy — an exercise in nostalgia for a past that never was, like the idea that the government used to belong to "the people" and now serves "the special interests".

Point taken, but without making a "declaration," don't our straight colleagues routinely discuss how they spent the weekend with their opposite-sex partner, which is a nonchalant way of proclaiming their sexual identity.

Because the Constitution cannot be amended by persistent evasion, this mandate was neither erased nor modified by the actions or inactions of timid Congresses that allowed overeager presidents to start wars in Vietnam and elsewhere without making a declaration.

"My basic position is that I don't think we should be putting boots on the ground without having a declaration of war," Mr. Benishek, whose daughter served in Afghanistan, said.

On December 10 1948, the member states of the United Nations, assembled at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, did a truly remarkable thing: they adopted without dissent a declaration stating that because human rights constitute the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, all peoples and nations should strive to observe them and promote respect for them.

President Truman skirted Congress when he sent troops to Korea in 1950 without seeking a declaration of war, eventually numbering 1.8 million U.S. service members.