Sentences with phrase «of military authority»
Whatever views we may entertain regarding the loyalty to this country of the citizens of Japanese ancestry, we can not reject as unfounded the judgment of the military authorities and of Congress that there were disloyal members of that population, whose number and strength could not be precisely and quickly ascertained.
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«Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone... thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.»
Authorities said they arrested 46 people, including a group of military veterans who had to be carried out and a man who climbed atop a building and stayed there for more than an hour before surrendering.
Another study by James Bovard, a military and national security authority that appeared in the libertarian Reason Magazine, offers a highly critical and skeptical review of what he calls «The High Price of Security Theater.»
Then there was the always - black - clad Kim Dotcom, the file - sharing kingpin who was the subject of a military - style raid by New Zealand authorities.
As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well - established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat.»
The Trump administration has loosened rules of engagement and has restored many decision making authorities to the military.
In leftist and Soviet - allied regimes around the world, dictators would send their militaries into major public areas in ostentatious shows of authority and force.
A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were killed Wednesday when a military cargo plane crashed near Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport minutes after takeoff, sending black smoke billowing into the sky, authorities said.
-- Nothing in this title shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Defense to develop, prepare, coordinate, or, when authorized by the President to do so, conduct a military cyber operation in response to a malicious cyber activity carried out against the United States or a United States person by a foreign government or an organization sponsored by a foreign government or a terrorist organization.
Islamabad : Pakistan top civil - military leadership has directed authorities to «forcefully» pursue the alleged violations of Indus Waters Treaty with...
Beware of «faithful» religious believers like Romney who seek positions of great political power and authority over military forces.
When, because of military pressure, the Confederate Tribes decided they needed a central authority, some of the conservative prophets knew it could lead to abuses, and some vehemently opposed it: «Fallen is the virgin Israel, never to rise again, etc etc»..
The national security doctrine, that absolutizes the state authority and the military technocracy, is indeed the manifestation of the inner logic of the Leviathan, that is the survival of the fitest or the most powerful.
Terrorism and torture tend to occur most where governments are not restrained by a democratically authorized constitution, where legal systems have little independence from military control, and where state authorities understand themselves to be the sole guarantors of order, development and stability.
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.»
The second beast uses his religious authority to underpin the political, military, social and inst - i - tutional power of the first beast.
Something of this ambivalent authority remains even when Church and state are separated, as in the case of the military chaplaincy and in the authorization of ministers by governments to perform civilly sanctioned marriage rites.
Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.
Our military men and women have submitted themselves to the authority of the United States armed services.
When Constantine became a Christian he created a golden opportunity to unite a wholeheartedly universalist religion and its abundance of scriptural authority and missionary impetus with an empire's forces of political, military, and economic expansion in order to create a genuine world empire.
I think the thing I find difficult to get past is that upon reading the story it doesn't seem that Joshua is leading the nation of Israel on military conquest by his own planning or authority.
The current constitution specifically prohibits Suu Kyi from holding the title of president (though she will likely still maintain significant authority), and ensures certain powers remain in the hands of military officials.
They can talk amongst themselves as much as any group of people, but they are clearly undermining the Authority of the Military Chain of Command and should be dealt with accordingly for what they are actually doing as individuals.
They are organizing outside of the Chain of Command for purposes of their own that violate and subvert the Const!tution, the Military Code of Justice, the very Authority upon which the whole military oMilitary Code of Justice, the very Authority upon which the whole military omilitary operates!
On the domestic front, China's leaders may recognize that protestantism, with it's myriad of denominations is a malleable tool: the protestant work ethic, submission to «scriptural» authority, apocalyptic programming, and unquestioning support for political and military agendas easily has as much potential to support communism as it does capitalism in the West.
And all this while the government spent, on average, only twenty cents of every disposable dollar on human resources — education, employment, job training, social services, health, and fiscal assistance — but spent fifty - five to sixty - four cents of every tax dollar that congress has the authority to distribute, meaning minus entitlements, on the military.
We should not forget the pragmatic consideration that the non-violent resistance of an unarmed populace against armed police or military authority may be the only feasible kind of protest.
The two county's state military forces are co-operating, though Lebanese authorities insist they are not co-ordinating with the government of Syria's President Bashar Assad.
War films like The Caine Mutiny and The Manchurian Candidate portrayed the deconstruction of military and governmental authority.
The first, thus may be considered as the military responsibility and the second the judicial responsibility of the sovereign, the state or the public authority.
Having rejected the authority of the Church as the glue holding together Christendom, Protestantism was ineluctably drawn to the force of military might, to using the secular arm of the state as the source for order and unity.
Nonetheless, given the reality of large - scale war, such citizens could be held as prisoners of war under military authority.
In historical context, the Milligan decision was probably directed more against President Andrew Johnson's military reconstruction policies than against anything Lincoln did, though its effect was to undermine Lincoln's views of presidential authority in the process.
In September 1862, he authorized the military arrest, detention, and punishment of «aiders and abettors» of the South, including «all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States.»
Lincoln also ordered the blockade of Southern ports, again on his own military authority as commander in chief.
From members of the Norwegian military to the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture; the Hong Kong Airport Authority to Kuwait's Ministry of Health, a diverse array of people and groups support the campaign.
Like many football coaches, Wade respected the structure, authority and power of the military, and he routinely hosted servicemen at Duke practices and games.
As command base for the Military Air Transport Service, Andrews has the authority to request transfer to it of any man in the Air Force so long as two conditions are met: there must be a job open for him and the man must indicate that he wants to transfer.
«Now Therefore I, Lieutenant - Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above,» he announced in a broadcast, which thereafter triggered wild jubilations in the streets, «do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of Biafra.»
«As part of measures to de-escalate tension and ensure lasting peace in the town, the military is working with the local government council authorities and community leaders, including the Kagara Emirate Council, to pacify all aggrieved parties and build on the peace so far established.»
Putin has imposed a strong vertical authority chain in the government, has resuscitated the economic and social, and military, position of the country through the windfalls of oil and gas revenues.
Certainly, Corbyn's authority would be undermined if, say, he voted against future UK military action in Syria but a majority of his MPs backed it.
In the letter dated 25 August 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale the organization expressed «serious concern that any monitoring of Nigerians on social media by the military authorities would directly violate the constitutionally and internationally guaranteed rights to freedom of expression and privacy online.
The senator referred the bill to the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee in January, but in promoting his bill he made mention of a recent report by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was many years behind and over-budget in its capital security program to protect the subways, buses, trains and bridges.
Admitting the campaign in Iraq had had both «ups» and «downs», he declared the transferral of authority to the US military marked a «successful conclusion to a long campaign».
The delegation would rub minds with Federal and State authorities, as well as military leadership on the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, in Nigeria.
Fifteen armed men dressed in military fatigues, suspected to be army officers, have stormed the private residence of the main opposition National Democratic Congress» National Organiser, Mr Kofi Adams, and seized all his vehicles in the company of four alleged National Security officers and personnel from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).
The military did not deny the reported withdrawal of troops from Dapchi before the «terrorists» incursion, claiming instead that the withdrawn troops were to have been replaced by police officers, an arrangement the police authorities immediately claimed they were unaware of.
Meantime, military authorities in Nigeria have debunked reports in foreign media that Nigerian militant group with sympathy to Biafra and IPOB hijacked a ship and are demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government before the ship will be released.