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a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring
How To Use state of war In A Sentence
- Seeing then to the offensiveness of man's nature one to another, there is added a right of every man to every thing, whereby one man invadeth with right, and another with right resisteth; and men live thereby in perpetual diffidence, and study how to preoccupate each other; the estate of men in this natural liberty is the estate of war. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
- The powers allow it to rule by decree and declare a state of war.
- I wonder what would happen if some of those people were compelled to go beyond such criticism and actually take on the responsibility of trying to survive in an intersocietal system that has been in a Hobbsean state of war since the first kingdoms arose in Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. ' Disagreement about Zbig: Acknowledging the Problem of Power
- The two countries are locked in a virtual state of war.
- Armed conflict is defined in functional terms, unlike a state of war which is triggered by a formal state of belligerency between two states.
- Troubled by his own nascent Catholicism as well as the state of war-torn Europe, Francis Poulenc wrote his choral masterpiece, Figure humaine, in 1943, calling the cantata both a "sacred duty" and a patriotic gesture to France. Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works
- The Consultative Council on National Security was due yesterday to discuss Macedonia - as Bulgaria's western neighbour lingered on the brink of declaring a state of war.
- Situated on the proximities of the military fortress of same name, the Imbuhy community lives in state of war with the army since 1995, due to an action of reintegration of possession impetrated on Justice by the militaries, that wish to expel from the place 32 families that live there from more than a century. CMI Brasil
- Unless Hitler withdrew his troops from Poland by 11 o'clock that morning, a state of war would exist between Great Britain and Germany.
- AMANPOUR: Now while leaders and commentators and analysts are generally saying that a state of war has been declared against the United States and against what they call civilized humanity, they're saying that it is important Jack Straw's saying to keep a cool head. CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2001
