Sentences with phrase «state war council»
Returned soldiers needed work so the chairman of the Country Roads Board asked the State War Council for funds in order that returned soldiers could work on roads in sparsely populated areas in the Western District.
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For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.
World government proponents were deeply ambivalent about the formation of the UN after World War II, recognizing that in important respects it entrenched the nation - state by creating a General Assembly based on national representation and a Security Council reflecting the conventional notion of Great Powers.
While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»
Very soon — as early as 314, at the Council of Arles — the church realized that to deny the state the right to go to war was to condemn it to extinction.
Under the Reagan administration, the United States did so much damage to Nicaragua that the United States was condemned by the World Court, by two supporting Security Council Resolutions that the U.S. had to veto, after which, of course, they rejected the court judgment and then escalated the war.
Israel should acknowledge the right of return or compensation to Palestinian refugees; we have to acknowledge also that if the Palestinians had accepted the 1947 UN partition plan, which the Palestine National Council approved last November in Algiers, all the wars, all the expulsions and all the subsequent suffering might have been avoided, and we would today be enjoying peaceful coexistence in two neighboring states.
Short of voting for a Palestinian state, the Security Council» absent an American veto» also might revise its Resolution 242, adopted after the 1967 War.
The Iraq Resolution known as «AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11).
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong - un, «is begging for war,» Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council today.
«The war room is where people go to press their point a little bit more than usual,» said Stephanie McLean - Beathley, Division 167 of NY State Public Employees Federation council president.
The governor and the emir have been embroiled in a proxy war for many weeks, with the state government's anti-corruption agency launching a probe of Kano Emirate Council finances in apparent retaliation for Emir Sanusi's open criticism of the governor's top project priorities.
In a related development, the Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria has said the killing of two reverend fathers in Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen is a deliberate assault on the Christian faith and an open invitation to a religious war.
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This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Bill of Rights did not apply to the States before the Civil War: Barron v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243 (1833).
His 50 - year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organisations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.