Sentences with phrase «u.s. military efforts»

April 22, 2004: In an event that served as a lowlight for U.S. military efforts post Sept. 11, 2001, Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed in action.

Some people protested but the majority supported U.S. military efforts.

But it was her view of the massive U.S. military effort and work to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan that made the biggest impression.

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Strong vehicle sales data helped U.S. indexes gain momentum throughout the day while investors weighed President Barack Obama's effort to win support in Congress for a military strike on Syria.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

The U.S. military recently approved a plan to ramp up efforts to fight against the al - Qaeda affiliate organization.

During the 1960s and»70s, as the nation's military involvement in Vietnam inspired a mood of questioning and cynicism, defenders of U.S. policy seemed to become even more explicit in their efforts to find divine legitimacy in American history.

In an effort to support U.S. military troops, Kraft Foodservice is proud to announce a new partnership between A. 1.

Virginia Tech is participating in a new, landmark $ 30 million national effort sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the U.S. Department of Defense to combat concussions among college athletes and active service military personnel.

Thanks to the efforts of Don Grimes of the America Remembers campaign and the U.S. Military Postal System, special ZIP codes have been assigned to Operation Dear Abby for the period of Nov. 1, 1992, to Jan. 15, 1993.

The recent visit to Beijing by the U.S. secretary of defense, Leon Panetta — which coincided with State Department statements that the U.S. - Japan security treaty would apply to the disputed Senkaku Islands — highlights the growing tension with China over America's military presence in Asia, Chinese efforts to counteract it, and the dangerous misperceptions that can arise if defense strategy gets in the way of diplomacy.

For example, even though the US was instrumental in establishing the International Criminal Court, in 2002 it withdrew from the UN agreement that created it and began a diplomatic effort to make the U.S. military immune from its writ.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

Kinderhook, NY — May 18, 2016... In an effort to ensure that military veterans receive the necessary care, treatment and job placement services upon returning home from service at home and abroad, Congressional candidate John Faso (R - Kinderhook) today announced his plan for ensuring no member of our armed services falls through the bureaucratic cracks of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has been at the forefront of an effort to reform a culture in the military that has allowed sexual assaults to go unpunished.

«There are several steps that scientists, health care professionals and systems can take to better serve the individuals who have bravely served their countries, including an honest reckoning with the growing evidence base showing a disproportionately high burden of childhood abuse among military personnel, a genuine and continuous effort to diminish the stigma of disclosing childhood abuse, and allocation of resources for epidemiologic efforts and treatment modalities to address issues of childhood abuse among military personnel,» write John R. Blosnich, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Robert M. Bossarte, Ph.D., of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, responded that the military's biofuels effort is imperative for national security to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

A week after sharp criticism met the U.S. military's announcement that it planned to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic with a «deployable hospital» that has a mere 25 beds, U.S. President Barack Obama tomorrow plans to unveil dramatic new efforts to assist the West African countries besieged by the disease.

RHex furthers the U.S. military's ongoing efforts to deploy aerial drones and land robots to assist troops in the field.

The U.S. military has made progress by conducting sexual assault training, but a new University of Michigan study raises questions about the effectiveness of those efforts.

However, U.S. sanctions against Russia, established in March 2014 after Russia's military intervention in Ukraine the previous month, have also impacted collaborative Arctic research efforts, albeit in relatively minor ways.

Nelson Michael of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the trial, is more optimistic: «We've shown that this 26 - year global effort has not been in vain.»

And the U.S. military's research arm announced it will fund efforts by several high - profile genetics labs to develop ways to reverse or limit the spread of an introduced gene if it should have unintended consequences on animals or an ecosystem.

«TransMilitary» The audience award for best feature documentary went to this story of four transgender servicemembers in the U.S. military and their efforts to repeal the ban on transgender personnel serving openly.

It's the early»70s and Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys, «The Americans») is a U.S. military analyst who has grown angry over what he sees as the discrepancy between the grim, deadly reality of a failing Vietnam War effort and the government's public face of inevitable victory.

A national coalition of peace activists — whose affiliates are already challenging local school policies - has set out to forge a comprehensive, and apparently unprecedented, effort to eliminate the influence of the U.S. military on public and private schools.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

And although formal U.S. combat operations ended in late 2014, the U.S. military remains deeply entrenched there, in an effort to help stem the ongoing Taliban insurgency.

We also support the national efforts of the Humane Society of the United States, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the World Wildlife Fund, Ducks Unlimited, and several U.S. Military Working Dog organizations.

Thanks to their persistent grassroots efforts — abetted by a confluence of factors, including changing priorities in the National Park Service, the decommissioning of military sites across the U.S., and a continuing debate over the future of Alcatraz Island — the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was established on October 27, 1972.

Throughout World War I, more American women than ever before took leadership roles in wartime efforts through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, replaced men in vacated jobs when soldiers were sent to the battlefields, and actively supported the U.S. military as nurses, yeomen, clerical workers, or «Hello Girls» operating switchboards.

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).