Sentences with phrase «preemptive force»

Those salutary effects depend entirely on the preemptive force of federal legislation.

What we need is to recognize that some human rights crises may demand preemptive force (In the form of humanitarian intervention) as a deterrent to much greater violence.

Not exact matches

Preemptive war is a matter of negating an imminent attack on one's own forces, territory or allies.

Bush's alliance with Ariel Sharon was based on using massive force and preemptive strikes against terrorism and preferring unilateral acts with which the powerful side can impose its will without the need to negotiate compromises and concessions.

North Korea said Saturday the military exercises were «reckless» and its forces would «go over» the operation for preemptive retaliatory strikes at those involved in the drill, according to KCNA.

Tecmo, sensing a disturbance in the fanboy force, sent out a preemptive email today explaining to anyone and everyone why Fatal Frame 4 was not at E3 this year.

The front page of the press kit sported the name «Joint Task Force Guantánamo,» and these words, mounted I suppose, as a preemptive strike against every criticism we might level:

Wareham addressed Russia's desire for a working definition and affirmed that «by retaining meaningful human control over the use of lethal force in each individual attack we can in effect prohibit the use of fully autonomous weapons and thus achieve a preemptive ban.»