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military action

NOUN
  1. a military engagement
    he saw action in Korea

How To Use military action In A Sentence

  • The Constitution requires the president to seek the prior approval of Congress for military action.
  • Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
  • Because of the UN failure, the Croatian government has now launched military action to reestablish control over part of the occupied areas.
  • What it provides, however, is a set of criteria by which a potential military action might be judged morally licit or illicit.
  • Further, subsequent military actions may depend on the effectiveness of a non-lethal attack.
  • He had apparently been bloviating about civilian casualties caused by military actions.
  • So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
  • Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
  • Tutu also criticized what he called the dangerously flawed intelligence used by the U.S. and Britain to justify military action in Iraq. CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2004
  • Once more we seem to have embarked on military action without pausing to think where it could lead. Times, Sunday Times
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