Sentences with phrase «authority over his warring»

The Labour leader handed promotions to a number of loyalists as he tried to re-assert his authority over his warring MPs.

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A 2010 Senate report by Senator Lieberman affirmed the President's authority during war, threat of war, or «a state of public peril» to «take over wire communications in the United States» and «shut a network down» under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934.

ISIS was able to take over large swaths of land due to the lack of centralized authority in both Iraq and war - torn Syria.

Authorities should check if there is war criminal RATKO MLADIC hidding over there.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

If at the same time means of international cooperation were created and international authorities strengthened, the threat of war would begin to hang less heavily over us.

The book — an expansion of his doctoral thesis — is a well - researched account of events surrounding one of the most important periods in the history of the Middle East: one which saw Israel secure a resounding victory over the Arab armies in the six day war, therein gaining territory 3 times the size of its nation and, after 2000 years, returning a united Jerusalem to Jewish authority.

Even a ribbon cutting for New York City's first new subway station in a quarter century couldn't keep the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and city officials from warring over transportation funding.

New Jersey lawmakers are crafting a resolution to formally oppose what they consider to be a new power play launched by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the latest wrinkle in what's become an ongoing tug of war over the resources of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Pakistani militants started a guerilla war to take it over, and the ruler appealed to the British Indian authorities for support, and opted to join India in response.

In 1999, a dispute between then New York governor George Pataki and then New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman over how to allocate precious Port Authority resources resulted in what the New York Observer described at the time as «a 17 - month interstate war of recriminations and tabled motions.»

In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale, the organization said: «Nigerians should have some sense of what it is the government is doing in our name, especially against the background of the declaration by the authorities that the anti-insurgency war has ended and the Boko Haram terror group defeated, as well as the unresolved questions on how over $ 2bn was spent by former Jonathan administration to fight Boko Haram.

The city - state squabble comes on the heels of the tug - of - war between Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio over who should pay for the city's ailing subway system, which is run by the state - controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities.

The Trump administration is speeding toward all - out war with California over fuel economy rules for cars and SUVs, proposing to revoke the state's long - standing authority to enforce its own, tough rules on tailpipe emissions.

Fernando, I rather suspect that if the authorities had called panic stations every time that a snowstorm (or any other kind) was approaching Moscow, the Cold War would have been over a lot sooner.