Is there a chance, though, that your tying the hands of commanders in war time by putting this into federal law?
During the course of the Hutton inquiry, Mr Scarlett was criticised for agreeing to make key last minute changes in the dossier because Number 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell feared it would play into the hands of anti-war groups.
America's first taste of military defeat came at the hands of British and Canadian troops in the war of 1812.
In Colorado in 2007, two students partially severed their hands in a tug-of-war.
It plays right into the hands of climate denialists who want a culture war.
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One of their first post-war matches brought a 13-0 mauling at the hands of Newcastle United, a result which remains a joint record Football League defeat to this day.
You parachuted into enemy hands and spent six years as a prisoner of war.
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But it was not until Ataturk rescued Turkey from dismemberment at the hands of the western Allies after the first world war that the army was put on a pedestal.
It seems fairly clear that Ethiopia's hands are not clean in its handling of the separatist war in Ogaden.
It's hard to imagine veterans of any war would want to shake hands with their enemies, much less return battle souvenirs to their families.
The truth is the company that popularized the modern image of Santa Claus and whose trademark hoop skirt bottle spread across the globe in the hands of victorious U.S. soldiers during World War II hasn't come up with a memorable campaign or a knock-your-taste-buds-silly new flavor in years.
UN's slowness to assemble a police force has left the Atlantic alliance with its hands full as the sole keeper of order in the former war zone.
After World War I, the pier changed hands a number of times and saw many redevelopment projects to try and revive its fortunes.
We were led by better people, many of them children of the Depression or veterans of World War II or people who had exhibited steady hands in the Cold War.
Seldom, if ever, said the Literary Digest in 1920, have the victors in a great war left the punishment of the defeated leaders in the hands of their own people.
His reflections on the pogroms of Jews at the hands of their fellow Poles in Jedwabne under Nazi occupation and at Kielce after the war are piercingly well-judged.
Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.
During the war, the worst violence against Sri Lankan Muslims came at the hands of the Tamil rebels.
Between 1998 and 2000, a senseless war with neighbouring Eritrea cost a fortune and prised many of the strongest hands off hoes and on to rifles. (In Eritrea, the aftermath has been even bleaker: 2.3m people now need food aid, out of a population of only 3m.) Ethiopian peasants are also burdened with taxes on the land they lease from the state, and levies for clinics, schools and roads.
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Mr Hussein, fighting for his life, has quietly accelerated the repatriation of his remaining Iranian prisoners of war: fewer than 1, 000 are thought to be still in Iraqi hands.
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- (applause) -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.
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Post-War economic history is the story of the quest to find new ways to bind the hands of politicians.
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