Sentences with phrase «last use military force»

He had seen at last that he had the French beaten for the moment, that the Turks were contained, that he could make common cause with the Pope and could now at last use military force to bring the Protestant states to order.

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The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or «just» use of military force — legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as the presence of a «just cause,» «right authority,» «last resort,» and the use of «means proportional to the end.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Disagreements will arise over the seriousness of particular threats, whether «just cause» and «last resort» are present for the use of military force, the utility of nonviolent and persuasive methods, whether a missile defense system (required by the strategy paper) is itself defensible practically and morally, and whether the U.S. should make interventionary decisions unilaterally or with international consent and support.

The MoD is still taking stock of the surprise decision of the House of Commons last summer to reject military intervention to punish President Assad of Syria for the use of chemical weapons against rebel forces.

Cameroon teachers on strike in battle over English or French Cameroonian forces have cracked down on protests in the English - speaking region that erupted last October, beating and arresting protesters, some of whom face the death penalty in military courts — under the same anti-terrorism law used to prosecute the journalist Ahmed Abba.

The 2018 defence cooperation agreement, which was ratified by a Majority - only Parliament last week will permit the U.S. Military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces.

Electronic Arts confirmed the Battlefield V name last week, and now it is using quick snippets from the upcoming military shooter that features flags for the Allied and Axis forces from the WWII...

The Trump Administration last week released its first «Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States» Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations.»