How to Use war power in a Sentence

war power

noun
  • The Iran war just blew past the 60-day war powers deadline.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • Skeptics will come with questions as war powers votes loom in both chambers.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Nicholas Wu’s view Democrats are able to set war powers votes on their own terms right now.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Schumer is talking to Democrats about how to get that war powers vote, Kim said.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • And war powers votes will be viewed as more of a shirts-and-skins exercise than anything else.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • But Congress should enforce its war power.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Both helped Trump skirt an initial war powers rebuke in the House last month.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Democrats have already brought one war powers resolution to the floor this month.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, The Hill, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Please call your reps in the house and the senate and urge them to take a vote on a war powers resolution!
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The House is set to vote on its own war powers resolution later this week.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Modern war power is based on the flow of fighting machinery, not the stockpile.
    — John Fischer, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The war powers resolution is unlikely to pass in the end.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • How did Thomas Massie vote on the war powers resolution?
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The House will vote on a war powers resolution to limit more strikes in Iran.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 3 June 2026
  • Advertisement Take how Trump has gained greater war powers.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 9 June 2026
  • The war powers, the president's supposed to come to Congress.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • And the outcome of a war powers vote in the House, expected this week, is uncertain.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Senate could vote on a war powers resolution.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 13 May 2026
  • The framers did not distribute war powers this way out of procedural fussiness.
    — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • One answer will come when Democrats force a new war powers vote, which is likely to happen in early April.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Schumer said Senate Democrats will force a war powers resolution vote next week.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Before the strikes, lawmakers in both the House and Senate had plans to force the war powers votes this week.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Congress should have the final say and support the war powers resolution.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday’s vote on war powers.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
  • House Democrats have also filed a similar war powers resolution and can force a vote on it as soon as next week.
    — Stephen Groves, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • House Democrats have also filed a similar war powers resolution and can force a vote on it as soon as next week.
    — Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats in both chambers have introduced a slew of war powers resolutions in recent weeks.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • How did Greg Landsman vote on the war powers resolution?
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Brianne has the latest on the war powers vote and the reaction from Iowa officials.
    — Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats hoped those dynamics would help push the latest war powers resolution over the finish line.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2026

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