Sentences with phrase «into armed conflict»

That not only the decision to go to war but decisions to effect «significant non-routine deployments of the Armed forces into armed conflict» should require the approval of the representatives of the people.

A Kurdish autonomous region existed in Iraq, but relations between the two main Kurdish political factions were extremely volatile and often descended into armed conflict.

That will bring them into armed conflict with people already living there,» he added.

When a situation escalates into armed conflict you trade blows and nasty axe strikes in turn - based battles on a grid.

As a result, many end up on the street, become involved in crime, or are drawn back into armed conflict.

«The anniversary of World War I reminds us how easily militarised societies can slide into armed conflict and become blind to the alternatives to war.

Not exact matches

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When the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions made inquiries into drone attacks in 2002, and again in 2005, the U.S. responded by claiming that such incidents do not fall within the jurisdiction of the rapporteur, given that the applicable law is the international law of armed conflict.

So the second set features three volumes — Conflict and Crisis, Rights and Justice, and Poverty and Development — that roughly translate into peace, development and human rights, but that take a broader view of what these areas encompass, with issues such as arms control, humanitarian assistance and transitional justice covered.

While all combatants are obliged to comply with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, violations of these rules shall not deprive a combatant of his right to be a combatant or, if he falls into the power of an adverse Party, of his right to be a prisoner of war, except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 4.

What we are really seeing is impoverished, sick families, desperately fleeing one conflict only to walk straight into another: homes burnt out, women attacked by armed police, young children tear - gassed.

To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no - man's - land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is unfolding that is an arms race in all but name.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

I understand that the conflict between Henry and Jane Fonda informs the film's contemporary interpretation, but as it plays today, there needs to be more setup than Chelsea's weeping into her mother's arms about Norman's placidity.

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime.

This meticulously constructed armed conflict procedural jumps into the morally ambivalent battle lines between Denmark and Afghanistan, where commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) is stationed with his company.

Who: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford What: Barney and his team come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables» co-founder, who is determined to destroy the team.

The Expendables 3 Director: Patrick Hughes Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Jason Statham Synopsis: Barney and his team, known as «The Expendables», come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables» co-founder, who is determined to destroy the team.

But when vicious arms dealer Ulysees Klaue (Andy Serkis) returns to threaten the kingdom, T'Challa's mettle as king — and Black Panther — is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict against enemies both inside and outside his kingdom, including the mutinous Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan).

He's hired by a cruel Mexican governor (Pedro Armendáriz) to carry out an arms deal that takes him to Texas, where his refusal to help hunt Apaches puts him in conflict with a U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill)-- and into the orbit of the major's unhappy wife (Julie London).

In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.

Having pushed the boundaries of armed conflict into outer space, the latest Call of Duty is a return to all the stuff that has made the FPS series such a blockbuster success.

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Baik Art presents Bearing Witness, a solo exhibition by Regina José Galindo, contemporary Guatemalan performance artist born in 1974, 14 years into the bloody, 36 - year armed conflict in Guatemala.

Warriors at rest, far from home but resonant of domestic textures, they are reminders that war extends beyond the battlefield into every facet of life, and that in armed conflicts, culture is just as contested as territory.

What type or level of interference by other states changes the character of a civil war into an international armed conflict?

Since early 2011, what appears to have begun as expression of dissent and dissatisfaction at the Gaddafi regime has developed, from around the middle of February 2011, into an internal armed conflict.

Over the past year since the report was issued, much of the debate over fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into account.

The United Nations disarmament chief Angela Kane provided a statement delivered by Jarmo Sareva that noted, «[t] he emergence of autonomous weapons calls into question the adequacy of measures to implement the rules of armed conflict that apply to the use of all weapon systems.

Once transformed, he takes on the stumpy appearance Psaro bore after losing his arms and head during the original conflict, and mutates into the familiar five - eyed form as the fight continues.