Sentences with phrase «british military action»
Sponsors of a national student concert in Britain worried that the words of «Land of Hope and Glory» were a tad too jingoistic, in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the resulting U.S. - British military action in Afghanistan.
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On the prospect of opposition to any action, the chancellor said: «Those who are never gonna authorise or sanction or be part of any kind of British military action abroad of course are unpersuadable».
Mr Dugher, who voted in favour of British military action in Syria, said the speculation meant «you are going to be left with a Shadow Cabinet sort of politburo of seven or something».
Mr Corbyn was embarrassed last month when he had to sit next to foreign secretary Hilary Benn in the House of Commons as he opposed him over British military action in Syria.
MPs will be given a vote over potential British military action against the Bashar al - Assad regime when parliament is recalled later this week, David Cameron has confirmed.
«The British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action,» he told MPs dumbstruck by what they had just accomplished.
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David Cameron has said ISIS poses a threat to British security and that military action is just one part of a wider strategy to defeat them.
The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.
«We need action to improve DfID's performance in backing up the British military effort to win the battle for hearts and minds.»
With a too close - to - call general election, a left - wing Labour takeover that nobody saw coming, a Tory backlash over tax credits and an intense debate over military action in Syria, few could argue that British politics has been boring in recent months.
This House believes that Parliament should hold a full debate before any British commitment to military action in Syria
The debate took place after the Speaker, John Bercow, allowed a Labour motion saying MPs had «considered parliament's rights in relation to the approval of military action by British forces overseas».
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The first part concerned the cases of Iraqis killed as a result of British action in the streets of Basra, while the second arose out of the treatment of Baha Mousa — an Iraqi who was beaten to death while being detained at a British military base in Basra.