Sentences with phrase «military confrontation»

What then is the evidence suggesting a continued reluctance to engage in full - scale military confrontation?

The possibility of military confrontation with Russia is also a significant issue for US voters, if they don't know anything else about Russia, they know it's got nukes.

Two days after Trump's «fire and fury» ultimatum to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which shook the international community and increased fears of military confrontation, the president has once again dialed up the pressure.

Seoul wants American troops to stay because those forces play the role of a mediator in military confrontations between countries like China and Japan.

* Low intensity conflict is a political - military confrontation between contending states or groups below conventional war and above the routine, peaceful competition among states.

There has been a tendency that the peace question has been reduced merely to the question of the reduction or elimination of violent military confrontations among nation states and political groups; but now it is the question of securing for the common life of all living things on earth.

There has been a tendency for the peace question to be reduced merely to the question of the reduction or elimination of violent military confrontations among nation states and political groups; but now it is the question of securing the common life of all living things on earth.

But the message from the Barack Obama administration was clear: avoid military confrontation with Moscow.

Egyptian sources have reported that a new military confrontation is expected soon between armed militias and the LNA in the so - called Oil Crescent Area.

George F. Kennan claims that the U.S. never intended military confrontation with the revolutionary government — and, indeed, the size of the expeditionary force supports that contention.

Another part of the French public wants to decrease the risk of possible military confrontation with Russia.

China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, among others, have often engaged in bilateral disagreements with resulting spikes in diplomatic tension and even military confrontation.

Israel and Iran this week had their most serious military confrontation to date.

Release Date: Nov 10, 2009 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision Genre: Action, First Person Shooter Theme: Modern Military Rating: M for Mature Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer DLC / Expansions: Stimulus Package, Resurgence Package Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the follow up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and thrusts players modern military confrontations.

We don't have to respect their system or like them, but disregarding another nation's borders is a quick route to further military confrontations.

As you'd expect during this time of growing global concerns, many people are wondering if a prolonged military confrontation in the Middle East will finally stall the two - year record - breaking pace of the housing sector.

Leaders of the Spartan type abhor the messy give - and - take of political compromise; they prefer the clarity of military confrontation to the shifting waters of political coalitions.

If he pushes too hard or too far, however, Trump's words and deeds could lead to a military confrontation, some US analysts warned.

«What the president is doing by making his own unilateral decisions that indicate that we're ready to start a military confrontation --- that's just moving in the wrong direction.»

Outside of a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula, a big risk for the market in 2018 remains inflation rising quicker than expected, which could force the Fed to move faster than it presently intends to in the United States.

Mattis explained that because the threat from North Korea loomed so large and a military confrontation would destroy so much, he, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had all made a peaceful solution a top priority.

«China hopes disputes can be resolved by talks, but it must be prepared for any military confrontation.»

Some U.S. analysts warned that Trump could provoke a military confrontation if he presses the Taiwan issue too far.

The only caveat is that Iran and geopolitics could spike further oil prices this year; and we will have a military confrontation between the US and Iran by 2008 that will lead to a global recession as oil prices will double during such confrontation.

Austin called for a national innovation strategy and a blueprint for cyber survivability in the event of a military confrontation with a major power.

Or, a real wind - down of the military confrontation with Russia, not only directly on its borders, but also in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere in the Near East.

As for iran expect Obama to begin a military confrontation with them in June - Sept.

This hypothesis, remote when one looks at the military confrontation of these days, remains nevertheless among the few options to avoid the continuation of the conflict and further deterioration of Syria's social compound.

Most, if not all reasons advanced for their appeals for me to reembrace my initial position are based on fears of a military confrontation that leads to violence and concerns for an outbreak of war in our peaceful country of ours.

A military confrontation with who?

But a military confrontation with who?

Without this quest for justice, within the contest of the constitution of The Gambia, and for the elimination for the threat of use of force, which is the position of ECOWAS, the impasse will continue with the risk of an escalation of a military confrontation.

«Let me make it clear: Most, if not all the reasons advanced for their appeals for me to reembrace my initial position are based on fears of a military confrontation that leads to violence and concerns for an outbreak of war in this peaceful country of ours.

Venezuela found itself in a military confrontation with the UK, Germany, and Italy in 1902, after halting debt payments.

While the danger of a military confrontation has subsided the situation in the Crimea appears to be turning into «another frozen conflict» in Europe, Hague said, like the unresolved situations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Oil spills, construction, overfishing, coastal degradation (which will affect the indigenous peoples who live there), and military confrontation could have far - reaching consequences.

In a military confrontation, one party generally uses force to compel the other party to do something they would otherwise not do.

It will not be in the form a military confrontation as it was with past generations.