Sentences with phrase «war against a regime»

With the current political landscape of a very liberal President advocating we make war against a regime using WMDs... well, we can only pray that Howey's work stays fictional.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to ease concerns the U.S. was gearing for war with North Korea, a day after President Donald Trump rattled global markets with his warning that he could unleash «fire and fury» against Kim Jong Un's regime.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

A military attack that is not decisive opens the possibility that the US will have committed an act of war against the Syrian regime without actually securing victory.

The passions of war aroused, we diverted attention from Afghanistan to the prospect of a preemptive strike against Iraq, not simply to remove banned weapons but to replace the regime.

A war led by an American Christian president against a Muslim nation — even if most Muslim nations dislike that nation's regime — would he seen as a crusade against Islam.

Unless it were demonstrated that Hussein's regime posed a clearly identifiable and imminent danger to the U.S. (or to Iraq's neighbors), the war against Iraq would be manifestly unjust.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

More than 500,000 Iraqi children were malnourished even before the war, partly due to United Nations sanctions against the regime for its weapons programs.

The disappearance of the man who had ruled from Addis Ababa for the past two decades — having come to power through guerrilla war against the communist Derg regime — has unleashed speculation regarding likely successors and an internal power struggle inside the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

Despite these criticisms, Duterte's regime, confronted by another challenging issue, has extended another form of «martial law» by declaring war against the Islamist armed group Maute, aligned with the Islamic State, in the city of Marawi.

This had a considerable impact in the US, as it was involved in a war against totalitarian regimes.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

However, ultimately, Lynch won a war against Sherwood, as he enjoyed surprising support among the town board, and ultimately Sherwood's regime was toppled in the following election with the victory of pro-Lynch stalwart Finn.

Secondus stated that it was wrong to assume that the PDP was not ready to fight corruption, stressing that the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo established institutions that he said «are currently waging a war against graft in the country.»

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime.

This staggering first novel is set in 1970s Argentina during the so - called dirty war, carried out by the military regime against real or imagined insurrectionaries; the author sensitively follows the plight of a husband and wife who lose their son in the military crackdown.

At the bottom of the official press release introducing the gaming world to Machine Games» Wolfenstein: The New Order, publisher Bethesda Softworks clarified its position on the Nazi regime's attempted genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

War hero B.J. Blazkowicz must launch an impossible counter-offensive against the monstrous Nazi regime that has conquered the globe.

The Resistance against the Nazi - fascist regime toward the end of World War II is a defining moment for the Italian people.

His father had served in the Nationalist army in the war against China's Communist revolutionaries and later fled to escape the new regime.

From 70s Slovakian conceptual artist Julius Koller working under the Soviet regime to Zero artist Heinz Mack working in post war Germany, the exhibition focuses on artists, who by going against current practices, presented a new way of working and looking that challenged the art establishment.