The main purpose of international laws of war is to punish the evil and protect the innocent.
This 1955 novel, critics agree, distilled the experience of a generation, laying bare its hollow quest for meaning and purpose in the post-World War Two world of corporate business.
And most of all, after a decade of passionate debate, we must recapture the common purpose that we shared at the beginning of this time of war.
U.S. officials draw a distinction between cyber espionage and cyberattacks, which have a destructive or manipulative purpose and could be considered an act of war.
IR--An alliance is a formal treaty or agreement between states, commonly for the purpose of mutual aid in the event of war against a common enemy.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says opponents of war will question the purpose of the surge, if the Iraqis themselves cannot use the breathing space provided by US forces to find long-term solutions.
Pressed by the prosecution, Frank said he had seen no reason to believe that anything had been done on purpose by his Marines and that no law of war violation had occurred.
But the more successful he is in persuading Britons of the war's high purpose, the less plausible it becomes to rule out a fight on the ground just because such an enterprise would be hazardous and costly.
The shield in Dark Souls serves a similar purpose to duck-and-cover in Gears of War, for instance.
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That won't stop many analysts from speculating that the real purpose of the Medco divestment is to create a massive war chest that Merck will use to buy new drugs--or perhaps to merge with another drug firm like Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people), with which it co-promotes several drugs, or Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people).
The purpose was to reduce the risk of surprise attack, accidental war or war by momentum, such as World War I.
The core purpose of the Geneva Convention is to encourage the conduct of war in a way that minimizes violence to civilians.
The purpose of the treaty is to establish a Nuremberg-like war crimes institution that can indict, and try on its own, alleged war criminals from around the world.
After all, those who constantly talk of war sometimes trigger it, accidentally or on purpose.
Its purpose was not military but political: to establish the tenor of post war France and to hand France to de Gaulle.
Some see it as a mission that will either carve out a new post-cold war role for the organisation or, if the alliance stumbles, underline its lack of purpose.
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