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make war
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Palestinians don't need Abbas to make war, and don't need Hamas to make peace.
But the choice even to impose these sanctions is a step below the moral choice to make war.
That the West must make war to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon is a widely held perspective, but it's just one perspective.
If anyone needed evidence as to why the founding fathers did not give Congress the authority to “make war,” this was surely it.
As the famed British officer T.E. Lawrence put it: “To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”
The people of another island over whom he was also the ruler were coming to make war upon him.
We did not make war on the inhabitants of Mesopotamia; we came to free them from the domination of the Turk.
But I require money to make war on the richest nation of the world.
They would say for the Purpose, that it was inconsistent with a Priest to make War.
As well might the timid deer make war upon the hungry wolf, as the Walkullas upon the Shawanos.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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