Sentences with phrase «use of military action»

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Third, for those in Congress who worry that a more aggressive national security team in the White House may push the President too quickly to use military force, this week should focus their concern about the increased risk of military response to Iranian actions.

The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world.

«The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world,» said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Even the Pope and his diplomats, quite reluctant to condone military action of any kind, have acknowledged the necessity of using force to defend and protect innocent lives.

Even though, as a Christian, I can only support military action with fear and trembling, I am not arguing that all use of military power is wrong.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

Any congregation that is committed to Christian action in its community needs to have at its center or very close to it, a group of men and women prepared to be — to use military language — the reconnaissance and intelligence force of the main body.

It uses the mechanism of the UN security council, since that was (and is) the forum through which military action can be authorised.

Within the USA, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists is so broad as to be a rubber - stamp for any action by the president.

If that were not in place, the War Powers Act, which, ironically, was meant to set boundaries on the Executive Branch use of military force, would still allow for this action, in all probability.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 - day withdrawal period, without a Congressional authorization for use of military force (AUMF) or a declaration of war by the United States.

by Baylis, Wartz, and Gray, Oxford, 2013) says that covert action is in fact the covert use of the instruments of military, economic, informational, and diplomatic power.

«Chief of Army Staff, General Buratai and his military hierarchy are desperately using every and any available strategy to justify their actions against IPOB family members in Biafraland particularly in Anambra State because of our boycott threat.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

And finally, I want to briefly address the use of unilateral military action and intervention rather than diplomacy and negotiation to resolve disputes and change governments.

Yet the use of chemical weapons against a country's own citizens surely requires a forceful act of intervention, even if that includes limited military action.

Did the Syrian government used all the measures, lines of actions, exhausted all the peaceful ways to prevent a military intervention?

The Foreign Secretary delivered an impassioned defence of the military action saying failure to response to Assad's chemical weapons use would have undermined «civilised values».

«However, unilateral military action by the U.S. in a Middle East conflict causes grave concern, given the lack of any Authorization for Use of Military Force from Congress and the absence of any long - term plan or strategy to address any consequences from such unilateral actionmilitary action by the U.S. in a Middle East conflict causes grave concern, given the lack of any Authorization for Use of Military Force from Congress and the absence of any long - term plan or strategy to address any consequences from such unilateral actionMilitary Force from Congress and the absence of any long - term plan or strategy to address any consequences from such unilateral action.»

Another danger of such an approach of using military strikes to promote a political solution is that it will be very difficult to get the balance right between the threat of continuing and escalating military action against the regime and shifting the balance of power just enough to create incentives on both sides to negotiate.

Former President George W. Bush, in an interview, said Obama has a «touch choice to make» on potential U.S. military action against Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, who is accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.

Article 54 of the convention's First Protocol, agreed in 1977, prohibits attacks on «objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population», unless they are used «in direct support of military action».

Though the most infamous of these efforts, called Project Camelot, focused on preventing insurgency in Latin America, other projects looked more broadly at using social sciences to help guide military actions, and like current efforts, they included quantitative and predictive uses of social science models.

Rabin and Peres banter back and forth about the merits of military action against the terrorists, the former trying to get others to understand why he's resistant to use force while the latter plots with quietly intense Machiavellian precision in hopes of changing his mind.

THE LAST CASTLE (Grade: B): In this muddled but mostly compelling prison drama / action thriller, Robert Redford is very good as a defrocked three - star Army general doing hard time in a military prison who uses his West Point values to challenge the authority of a corrupt warden (James Gandolfini).

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This required use of the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) to develop courses of action to be presented to the commander for approval.

Despite the intensity of its action, it's a more sombre experience than the triumphal heroics that used to be standard issue in military first - person shooters.

How did you come to use video for this work, and can you break down the aesthetic choice of using military action figures?

His interests are wide ranging, from chemical and molecular configurations to mappings of bunkers used in military actions.

The works use contemporary military camouflage as the base canvas, imitating and disrupting the underlying patterns with thick layers of oil paint applied through an «action painting», similar to that of Jackson Pollock.

Importantly, such actions tally with international agreements, such as the 1978 Soviet - American Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.

That kind of whirling action is what DARPA was after for a new drone that could be used for collecting military intelligence.

Countries are perfectly allowed to complain about the treatment of their citizens, to take diplomatic action against countries that mistreat them, and in extreme cases (not including this one) to use military action.

Thus, arguments in favor of expanding the definition of «war» to encompass «bloodless» cyber actions are less a consequence of the supposed inadequacies of the law of war and more the result of political and military leaders, news media, and others focusing first and foremost on the instruments of cyber conflict rather than their effects or intent of their use.

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