How to Use war power in a Sentence

war power

noun

• Congress and the White House have long had a tug-of-war over war powers.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
• The war powers act has never been tested in the Supreme Court.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• The debate over war powers raged a week after the president ordered a strike against Maj.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• And so her promise to turn war powers back to Congress should be considered as empty as Obama’s promise to do the same.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• The repeal measure was later stripped from the bill by House leadership, who said a spending bill wasn’t the proper way to debate war powers.
  — Byron Tau, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
• Pete Buttigieg says he's work for repeal of the post-9/11 war powers resolution.
  — NBC News, 12 June 2019
• Like the other warring powers, Russia goes into the trenches.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• The vote seeks to return a basic war power to Congress and close a chapter on an invasion many lawmakers now consider a mistake.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Mar. 2023
• The next speaker of the House must reclaim congressional war powers as prescribed in Article I of the Constitution.
  — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2018
• The war powers resolution is not binding on the president and would not require his signature.
  — Matthew Daly, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
• The 50-to-40 vote came after a rare congressional debate over war powers and amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
• Passage of the provision is the culmination of a yearslong debate over whether to curtail the president’s war powers that has heated up in recent months.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 19 June 2019
• That schedule could have fringe benefits for Democrats, who want to force a Senate vote next week on a war powers measure aimed at constraining Trump’s military options with Iran.
  — Nicholas Fandos, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• Democrats in the House return from recess next week, and are expected to vote on two additional war powers resolutions.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 28 Jan. 2020
• Supporters argue that the measure limits the president's war powers in a way the current, open-ended war authorization does not.
  — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2018
• One lasting effect of Bush’s post-9/11 response is the expansion of presidential war power.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
• For the first time on a war powers matter, the senators used a provision known as a privileged resolution that allowed them to force the measure despite objections.
  — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2018
• The new war powers law, approved Monday on a vote of 62 to 41, was not written with the current skirmishes with Iran or the current prime minister and defense minister in mind, according to one of the measure’s architects.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• But Republican and Democratic leaders have been reluctant to take up the issue, wary of having to explain a vote granting the president war powers to constituents in a war-weary nation.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The opposition from the Texas senators didn’t stop the Senate from voting 55-45 to approve the war powers resolution, with eight Republicans voting yes.
  — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
• If lawmakers do nothing, Congress will have effectively ceded its war powers to the president.
  — Sarah Burns, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2020
• Eight Republicans defy the president and join Dems in pushing forward war powers legislation to limit Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran.
  — Matthew Daly, ajc, 13 Feb. 2020
• The way Harry Truman entered the Korean War expanded presidential war powers, a trend continued by nearly all of his successors in some way.
  — Julia Azari, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
• The opposition from the Texas senators didn’t stop the Senate from voting 55-45 to approve the war powers resolution, with eight Republicans voting in the affirmative.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Republicans have opposed the idea of a sunset, and the Corker-Kaine measure aims to strike a balance by requiring the administration to submit a new war plan every four years, although the current war powers would stay intact if Congress didn’t act.
  — Seung Min Kim, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Some Republicans also fear that another war in the Middle East would be a terrible mistake, and there's bipartisan concern that Congress has ceded too much of its war powers to the president in recent years.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
• Six Republicans joined 220 Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2020
• In Congress, Trump's bellicosity has sped a bipartisan effort to curtail the president's war powers.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Some hard-right Republicans in that chamber appear to favor, at least philosophically, returning war powers to Congress.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• This democratic model of war powers reflected that, as a fledgling nation, winning a major conflict would require the full support of the American people—their economy, manpower and willpower.
  — Ken Buck, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018

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