Sentences with phrase «for armed conflict»

Drone racing in 2017 is tacitly training for armed conflict.

Do you realize that they're getting ready for an armed conflict if they come to the Vatican to try to arrest him?

I was not referring only to halal slaughter, indeed, I was mentioning HERE the only justification for armed conflict within Islam.

Not exact matches

Sen. Mike Lee, R - Utah, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D - Conn., introduced a bill in February to withdraw U.S. armed forces from the Yemen conflict, where they have provided limited intelligence and refueling for warplanes.

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Gaza.

The latest research has put the price tag for the War on Terror at an exorbitant $ 4 - 6 trillion, more than any armed conflict in U.S. history.

The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group.

Although Wilson stressed that the U.S. Air Force must be prepared for military conflict, and that North Korea's nuclear capabilities are historically unprecedented, she emphasized that diplomacy should supersede armed conflict.

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, appears to be acting as a go - between for Bergdahl and his family, part of its mission is to protect victims of armed conflict and other violent situations and provide them with assistance.

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Scholars of the doctrine point out that, when appropriately used, armed combat aims to bring about a peaceful and just social order for both sides of the conflict.

WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle as a tool for settling conflicts and imposing one's point of view;

Electricity is on for four hours a day, water in many areas of Gaza is undrinkable and there have been reports of Hamas fighters being armed for further conflict.

This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

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The first, which we all know and long for, is that the very excess of destructive power placed in our hands must render all armed conflict impossible.

Hence in social terms the disorderly turmoil of individuals pursuing conflicting and egotistical aims; and, on the national scale, the chaos of armed conflict in which, for want of a better object, the excess of accumulated energy is destructively released... «Idleness, mother of all vices.»

For example, the functional paralysis of a middle - aged man's arm expressed the immobilizing conflict between the unconscious desire and the fear of striking out in rage at a person on whom he felt passively de-pendent.

A former New York Times foreign correspondent, Hedges got some attention for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a 2002 book drawn from his twenty years of field reporting on armed conflicts.

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

Honduras, after all, was the site of the infamous Soccer War, a four - day armed conflict with neighboring El Salvador that was sparked by contentious qualifying games for the 1970 World Cup.

Israels problems are internal, not external, and none of the armed conflicts in the region are targetting them now that the Iran issue has been defused for the forseeable future.

Armed with conflicting philosophies, every parent tests different approaches to see what ultimately works for the parent and the children.

When legs are kicking, mouths are screaming, and arms are flailing, it's meltdown mode, and no time to try to reason with them or work on problem - solving strategies for the next time a conflict arises.

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford, and a Board Member of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).

Insufficient attention to where British arms exports have ended up has been blamed by MPs for their use against civilians in conflict zones.

Please visit the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict website where you will find a Policy Brief on Implementing the «Responsibility to Protect».

There can be few issues that are as emotive - or, for that matter, attitudes that are as inconsistent - as the public's mood towards armed conflicts.

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War.

Dapo Akande is University Lecturer in Public International Law and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).

Dr Nicola Horsburgh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford.

ICRC's recent publication, Violence and the Use of Force, spells out the legal framework for managing policing and restraint around situations other than armed conflict.

At the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 17 September 2011, Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Jennifer Welsh, from the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), discussed the concept of the «Responsibility to Protect» or R2P in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and post-election violence in Kenya.

Ethical debates about the conduct of war have long questioned the legitimacy of «force protection» as an operating principle for those engaged in armed conflict.

We know from previous research that the nature of the outcome of an armed conflict has implications for the durability of peace.

Dapo Akande is Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), University Lecturer in Public International Law and Yamani Fellow, St Peter's College Oxford.

«Mayor Bloomberg's cavalier attitude and inflammatory remarks, by which he encourages armed conflict as a means for resolution, evidences tremendous disrespect,» the resolution said.

As Eugene Rumer and Rajan Menon note in their 2015 book Conflict in Ukraine, Putin's focus on creating economic nationalism has encouraged the Russian military to produce arms domestically without regard for cost.

«We have to be able to maintain full stability and the full confidence of the people who work for us, not least because we're in a very dangerous armed conflict,» he told the Sunday Times newspaper.

That money will not be used to fight terrorism but to arm the terrorists in preparation for the conflict that lies ahead.

It is also angling for the document to only apply during peace time and not during armed conflict.

(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

Having re-read the answer, one part stands out as extremely weak - you gave zero evidence that «Conflict escalation» is an actual reason and concern for not arming.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 270,000 of the 1.65 million veterans of U.S. armed conflicts since 11 September 2001 have claimed education benefits for degree programs, including more than 13,000 graduate students.

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

Areas that were inaccessible due to armed conflicts between the government and ethnic groups, for example, are starting to open up for timber production and commercial plantations.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts — yes, wars — are in progress as you read this.

Although droughts can lead to violence, such as in urban areas; this was found not to be the case for rural areas, where the majority of armed conflicts occurred where food crops were abundant.