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state of war
1. Thirdly, and lastly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and with them the liberty and security of individuals, among the inhabitants of the country, who had before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors
2. By law, unless in a state of war or other declared emergency, the SAP would always win such a contest for the Army was under Police command inside South Africa
3. Israel signed the Camp Davids peace accords, ending a long state of war with Egypt
4. These two kingdoms hated each other, and were in a constant state of war
5. “This is required in a state of war
6. To be a top-notch fighting man I guess you’ve got to hate in some degree, but I’m claiming that a state of war is not the desired end of society
7. “And this is spreading around the world! Those are the Princes and Princesses over there with Alilia, and they tell me that millions of elves from all over the world have asked for permission to come here! Just for a visit, of course! Alilia had to invoke the charters of war to insure that none spoke of any of this to any but elves! She had to actually declare a state of war in order to ensure compliance from the plains elves, just a moment ago!”
8. And if that had happened, it is quite likely that there would now be a state of war between The High People and The People of Life
9. We have it on the best authority a state of war exist between Israel and the Amelekites
10. The regime would not admit a state of war until it was proclaimed in a decree that had followed a court-martial which had condemned Colonel Aureliano Buendía to death in absentia
11. Hardly had the nation come to terms with the repercussions of that tragedy when the news arrived that the world had once again fallen; drifted, or been pushed into a state of War
12. In less than an hour the US was officially at war with Japan; declaring that a state of war existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan
13. By resorting to it, I have all but declared a state of war with my old friend Pedro, and am now making peace demands
14. We're to consider ourselves in a state of war
15. In August 1939 the UK government signed a pact with the Polish government and made it clear to the German government that their invasion of Poland would be a red line and would trigger a state of war; the German invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939 signalled the start of World War 2
16. We projected our inner state of bleeding rawness, our traumas, our wounds, our hurt, our anger, our rage, our inner conflicts, our inner contradictions, our inner state of war outwards and we are still doing it
17. Our ancestors were not aware that they were recreating this state of the inorganic earth’s state of continual oppositional state of warfare
18. The Jamestown inhabitants were in a constant state of war against the natives right from the start: they were attacked by the Algonquians right from the start, they were at war with the natives right from the start, But in this war, executing the queen of a local tribe including her children? This was standard practice of Royalty plotting to gain the throne of England
19. Because they are in a state of war right now, and are constantly fighting to twist and poison every sane human thought as much as they can
20. Because they are in a constant state of war against all human sanity, decency and common sense and truth
21. The living have not even realized that a state of war even exists between the living and the undead, and that it has always existed and will continue to exist until one side or the other wins
22. Only when you realize that you are in a constant state of war to the death against all forms of evil will you wake up and stop sitting on your ass expecting to be saved by someone else
23. The only reason this state of war is being won by undead turd shit scum is because they have managed to brainwash living humans and convinced them that they are in a state of peace: not war
24. “There can be no doubt that we are within a state of war with the Zoarinian Empire
25. In these cases Congress met to declare that a state of war existed
26. Yesterday I learned that, despite the loyalty which I have kept my engagements with Your Majesty, your troops have crossed the Russian frontier, and I have this moment received from Petersburg a note, in which Count Lauriston informs me, as a reason for this aggression, that Your Majesty has considered yourself to be in a state of war with me from the time Prince Kuragin asked for his passports
27. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us
28. Yesterday I learned that, despite the loyalty with which I have kept my engagements with Your Majesty, your troops have crossed the Russian frontier, and I have this moment received from Petersburg a note, in which Count Lauriston informs me, as a reason for this aggression, that Your Majesty has considered yourself to be in a state of war with me from the time Prince Kurákin asked for his passports
29. This right of blockading by proclamation is not a right growing out of a state of war; it is no belligerent right; it is a pretension, as applicable to a state of peace as to a state of war, and if we submit to it in a state of war, we must submit to it in a state of peace
30. But the right asserted by Great Britain to blockade by a piece of parchment or paper, issued from her Council Chamber, a port or ports, a kingdom or kingdoms, a continent or continents, is a right no more relative to a state of war than to a state of peace; and, if we submit to the pretension in a state of war, we must equally submit to it in a state of peace
31. As to the other right, of forcing our vessels into her ports, to pay duty and take out license, this is equally applicable to a state of peace as to a state of war
32. They are, therefore, interested in keeping up a state of war; and being invested with the management of an instrument of war, it is to be expected that it will be used in some degree to answer their own purposes? No man who will reflect for a moment, but must be satisfied that the disgraceful and lawless conduct of the British naval officers on our coast originated in a desire on their part to bring on a war with this country, in which they looked forward to large dividends of prize money; and these acts were contrary to the wish and expectation of Great Britain; in one instance the act was disavowed; and it may be asked why were the officers not punished who acted contrary to the wishes of the Government? The answer is obvious; because the influence of the Navy in England is so predominant that the Government are afraid to touch the subject, and the consequence is, that the Government are compelled to bear the odium of acts which they disapprove; and the same cause which has produced this effect in England, if permitted to operate, will produce a similar effect in this country
33. The naval power of Britain giving her the command of the sea, she could oppose only with effect the growing commerce of her neighbor in a state of war
34. They are not apprehensive of any serious dangers or inconvenience from a state of war; and although they admit that the Governor, Council, and three-fourths of the representation in Congress are of the Federal party, yet they do not believe that the State would stand alone and resist the National Government
35. The true policy, then, of the United States is, in the outset, to lay the foundation of a sure and certain revenue, and not to depend, in a state of war, upon a revenue to be derived from a source so uncertain as that of commerce
36. It was true that it was advocated as a step incipient to a state of war, and by way of preparation for it, by gentlemen whose sincerity he was bound to respect
37. We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain
38. With these blessings are necessarily mingled the pressures and vicissitudes incident to the state of war into which the United States have been forced by the perseverance of a foreign power in its system of injustice and aggression
39. Anxious to abridge the evils from which a state of war cannot be exempt, I lost no time after it was declared, in conveying to the British Government the terms on which its progress might be arrested, without awaiting the delays of a formal and final pacification; and our Chargé d'Affaires at London was, at the same time, authorized to agree to an armistice founded upon them
40. True it is, that a state of war gives the right to seize and appropriate the property and territories of an enemy
41. We are, sir, in a state of war; and what is evidently the course which we should pursue whilst in that situation? We should advocate and support such measures as are calculated to bring that war, justly made on our part, to a speedy, honorable, and successful conclusion
42. If, after the proclamation of the President of the United States of the 1st of November thereafter, issued in consequence of that letter, revoking so much of our non-intercourse law as related to France, an unbroken warfare being kept up by France on our commerce—a fact as notorious as the existence of any fact in nature—was it not good cause for reinstating the law in relation to France, and putting her on her ancient ground? Then I would be glad to know, for one, whether our continuing at war with England was any better cause for keeping up the interdiction in relation to her, after she had revoked her Orders in Council? In other words, it being admitted by gentlemen on one side, as it has been contended by gentlemen on the other, that the revocation of the Orders in Council by Great Britain was such a one as did satisfy the terms of the non-intercourse act, what was the reason that the proclamation required by our law in such case did not issue? Why, sir, the state of war between the United States and Great Britain being offensive on our part—being of our own making—was held to be a cause why we cannot execute our law as relates to her
43. We are involved in war with a nation powerful in her resources, clothed in complete armor, and to whom, from long habit, a state of warfare has become almost a national condition