Sentences with phrase «war against the forces»

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But he said CUP owes most of its identity to Catalonia's own history of workers and leftist movements, including 1930s radicals from pre-dictatorship Catalonia — when anarchists, communists and militant workers unions were among those who fought a losing 1936 - 39 war against Francisco Franco's fascist forces.

Older U.S. Air Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics show.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

A few years into the wars, American and coalition forces started to realize the twentieth century military mechanism wasn't going to work against a dangerous, dynamic and vastly decentralized enemy.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a legacy of the Cold War conflict, which pitted the South, the United States and United Nations forces against the communist North, backed by China and Russia.

Mr. Obama, who invited labor leaders to fly with him here on Air Force One, said the «constant war against unions» undermined regular workers.

In short, complex forces are arrayed against the institutions that sowed post-war stability and trust is the first casualty in this war.

His «we shall fight them on the beaches» and «this is our finest hour» speeches rallied the entire British nation and Allied forces in the epic fight against Nazi domination in World War II.

In these pages, papal biographer and theologian George Weigel rejects the notion that any thinking about just war ought to begin with a «presumption against the use of force,» as it seems Pope Francis has done.

If the spiritual forces that are at war with God were driven back in the creation event, then God Himself is driven back by these chaotic forces when they conscript mankind to fight for their evil cause against God.

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

Hillary Clinton made a forceful appeal for the United States to back Israel as the Jewish nation's forces squared off against Hezbollah during the 2006 Lebanon War.

The «presumption against war» is sometimes expressed as a presumption against violence, with violence defined as any use of lethal force.

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

This may well account for the terrible upheavals we have undergone; not an irresistible increase in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old disruptive surface forces driving against a merging in the depths which is already taking place.

The development or improvement of Special Operations Forces (SOF) was a critical component in low - intensity - conflict strategy to fight effectively «World War III» or, more accurately, to wage war against the poor throughout the third worWar III» or, more accurately, to wage war against the poor throughout the third worwar against the poor throughout the third world.

The idea that Catholic just war teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

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.

Such an interpretation magnifies the evils to be expected from a resort to force, regardless of any arguments for the justice of the cause, and thus transforms the presumption against war into a functional pacifism.

JimmyTImmy: Islam has been killing «civilians» since Mohammed led his forces in genocidal war against the Banu Qurayza tribe.

Thus, against such forces of chaos «Yahweh is a man of war» (Exod.

«We are in a terminal era, close to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, in which angelic forces are warring against demonic forces for the control of this planet that wandered away from the Lord,» writes the Rev. Carlos L. Ramirez in a sermonette in the Amarillo Globe - Times (April 9, 1984).

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

Italy attacked Turkish forces in Libya, and the Balkan countries declared war against Turkey shortly before the first World War — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empiwar against Turkey shortly before the first World War — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman EmpiWar — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Islam is religion of peace with who wants peace but not for those who look for war against it... Besides quoting «A force to be feared» this what would the Israelies say worrying from reactions after 30 years of suppression by this party and president ruling the country... another fear that they will spread their ideology all over Arabia..

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

I was going to be killed by my own hands against my will but my defiant will to overcome this evil force prevailed, I waged a mind war over it and my desperation led me to ask help from God.

The helmet of salvation is God's helmet which he has given to us, for our use, as His soldiers in this war against spiritual forces.

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

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.

The captives were released to Peshmerga, the military force of Iraqi Kurdistan, which has been waging an all - out war against ISIS since their attack on the region in August 2014.

The just - war tradition, rooted in the ethical theories of Plato and Cicero and formulated within the Christian tradition by Augustine, Aquinas and the Protestant Reformers, defends military force as a last resort against grave injustice.

They did not prioritize defense against armed attack, and certainly did not define just cause in terms of such self - defense, reflecting Augustine's conception of just war [as one in which] a Christian might justifiably use force to protect an innocent neighbor against harm.

To use force against governments that support terrorists surely lies within the proper scope of American policy as well as the definition of just war.

The very discussion, however, cleared the air and the net result was surely to give propulsion to all those forces set in battle array against war itself.

Yet I occasionally hear him also preach against many of the things our government is involved in, such as wars in the Middle East, the abuse and neglect of the poor in our cities, and the escalating violence of our police force.

Even later, after the war was done, an argument with Pozzo ahead of a friendly against communist Hungary was used to cast aspersions on his character, to the point that he was forced to write a piece headlined «I Am Not A Secret Agent.»

Lastly, I'm going to upset a lot of people by picking against Star Wars: The Force Awakens -LRB--216) for Best Visual Effects.

With the rising Ukrainian nationalism and the increasingly more and more visible loss of control of the central government over the country (in the recent trade blockade of Donbass by Ukrainian nationalists, president Poroshenko protested the blockade but was unable to force its lifting), it is possible that Ukrainian military will take more forceful action against Donbass and Luhansk, which may force Russia's hand, so not all risk of war is beyond us.

An «enemy» in the context of the phrase «enemy combatant» is a term of art that refers to a group defined by Congress with whom the United States is at war or against whom it is authorized to use military force.

The Iraq Resolution known as «AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, ClauseFORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, ClauAGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clauseforce against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clauagainst Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clauagainst Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11).

Also under the War on Terror, there is an Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists that can be issued.

The «enemy combatant» doctrine is part of the law of war and relies upon the notion that during a war you can use all necessary force against enemy soldiers and spies.

caste your mind backs, we bombed the Bosnian serbs and the Serbia itself which killed over 3028 innocent men, women and children with cluster bombs etc all in the name of preventing genocide in the Bosnian and Kosovo civil wars, are the same people who supported the illegal bombing of the Bosnian Serbian forces and Serbia itself against the bombing of fascist, genocidal isis, with the exception of George Galloway and tony benn I think you are, maybe I am wrong, am i.

Giambra admits too many obstacles got in the way: the battle against throat cancer that almost claimed his life, the wars with the area's political and business establishment and — most significantly — the failure of his calculated risk to force changes in Albany's relationship with local government.

Linking the fight against both Maute and Abu Sayaff in terms of the global «war on terror» against ISIS and al - Qaeda, government forces raided the safe house of Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf believed to be a key figure for the Islamic State in the Southeast Asia region.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.