Sentences with phrase «use of armed force»

This could include use of armed force, but also might not.

As one whose professional career has focused on the development and restraints on the initiation of war and the conduct of war, and one who, moreover, holds the deepest moral justification for use of armed force in the service of justice, I clearly belong among the constituency supporting war crimes proceedings.

Inasmuch as the use or the threat of use of armed forces by the country from which they come for the protection of the missionary and missionary property not only creates widespread misunderstanding as to the underlying motive of missionary work, but also gravely hinders the acceptance of the Christian message, the International Missionary Council

Arrangements are also on to make use of armed forces, police and federal road safety health facilities

Elshtain's «just war» idea is that a justice claim can be made whenever innocents are harmed and are in no position to defend themselves — there is then a presumptive case in favor of the use of armed force by a powerful state or alliance of states that have the means to intervene, interdict and punish on behalf of those under assault.

Violence is not just the use of armed force.

Judging from the way the «presumption» works out in practice, religious leaders and religious intellectuals now imagine that their function is to set a series of hurdles for public authorities to jump» then, if those hurdles are judged to have been successfully surmounted by the politicians, religious leaders and theologians will reluctantly give their blessing to the use of armed force in question.

The support of rulers, often accorded from personal ambition or from purposes of state, the use of armed force, the association with imperialism, the prestige of a higher culture with which Christianity has seemed to be identified, the openings given by commerce, and the migrations of professed Christians — all these have at one time or another assisted in the propagation of the faith.

Most Rev Justin Welby says there is «justification for the use of armed force on humanitarian grounds»... More

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures.

A few courageous, treasured, highly esteemed employees here at the Koontz manor — whose exquisite good taste I trusted and admired, whose taste in fact I would like to see adopted by our entire society through the use of armed force if necessary — read all the poems.

The use of armed force between states in international law is prohibited under Art 2 (4) of the UN Charter.