Sentences with phrase «wwi deserter»

In December 1915, the British command even ordered artillery fire to mark every daylight hour, «and threats to court martial fraternizers and shoot deserters [had] put the final block on any contact,» according to the BBC's documentary.

And U.S. President Barack Obama has waded into the debate, referring to inverting firms as «corporate deserters.»

To me, rhetoric laced with words like «patriotism» and «deserters» seems hopelessly parochial in a global economy.

But so far we haven't been able to learn much about her in the two movies other than she doesn't like First Order deserter, Finn (John Boyega).

InSight Crime: The Zetas organization was founded by a group of deserters from the special forces of the Mexican Army.

Also Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli Arabs marched in Shfaram in northern Israel to remember a 2005 attack in which an Israeli deserter and Kach member shot dead four people on a bus before being lynched.

The reaction of the environmental establishment to the presence of these dissenters and deserters has been rather nasty.

And there have been some celebrated deserters from the dominant orthodoxy, like Bjorn Lomborg who favors adaptation over an attempt to change the climate, and most recently James Lovelock, he of the «Gaia» hypothesis, who recanted his past climate pessimism rather dramatically.

Something like the deserters saying, «I'm a child of Abraham.

These deserters were probably pursuaded that their Jewish identity was enough and all this emphasis on Jesus was really only for those outsiders, namely gentiles.

When I heard there was a deserter, I imaged the typical religious forum trolling that I've seen before, but Gary's misgivings are understandable.

For Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, for example, a true National Socialist would willingly carry out a scorched «earth policy or ruthlessly gun down deserters.

I feel somebody needs to explore that angle looking at the pros and cons of offloading a player who stood by us when Fabregas deserted us to accommodate the deserter.

«They're there to make you feel humiliated, like you're a deserter.»

If Rosicky & Arsavin are still in Arsenal, the gunners will become deserters.

For the Conservatives, the poll presents the dilemma about how to bridge the distinct worldviews of the «deserters» and the «joiners».

Some Lib Dem members became deserters.

«DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman got the suspected forged retirement letter in 2014 but he contested the Bauchi Central Senatorial election in 2011 general elections under Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at that time he was a Deputy Superintendent of Police and a deserter of the Force.

Poll shows Tories picking up majority of deserters as Farage's party drops back into single figures, with Labour on 33 %

The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Nigeria Police Force on August 27 declared Misau a «deserter», and accused him of carrying a forged retirement letter.

The same donors also contributed individually to some of those same members — an interesting carrot - and - stick approach that combines pressure as well as support for would - be deserters from Bush's war policy.

«Police investigation revealed that the trainer, One Ebeje Nnamdi,»M» 26 years is a deserter from 20 Mechanised Battalion Taraba State in 2014.»

Parading the suspect at the Police headquarters at Amawbia, near Awka, the state capital, the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Garuba Umar, said Nnamdi was a deserter of the 20 Mechanised Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Taraba State, in 2014.

Sure, I was happy for the deserters, but I'd also grown accustomed to the five of us living within a 10 - block radius, and their moving ruined everything.

Little motivation for how Cassevetes comes to the decision to stand up for what is right - he's a deserter so his credibility would be shot on cross.

Some Army deserters and a crooked Indian Agent plan to kill Tonto and his Indian Chief friend Chief Swift Eagle.

Deserters can be arrested for leaving their camps if found.

He is going through his own Odyssey, trying to hide from locals who are apt to shoot deserters and meeting all sorts of characters (which translates to a slew of big name actors in small roles) along the way.

The story of a young woman who leaves her native land with her daughter to search for her missing husband, encountering a free - spirited army deserter along the way.

John Boyega hasn't done too much since his breakout performance in Attack the Block, but he is quite magnetic as the shellshocked deserter Stormtrooper fighting against years of conditioning and locked into the flight side of the fight or flight mentality.

Semi-feral deserters maraud through the battered countryside, sexually assaulting and murdering their way across an old Confederacy now deprived of so many of its able - bodied men.

, but he is quite magnetic as the shellshocked deserter Stormtrooper fighting against years of conditioning and locked into the flight side of the fight or flight mentality.

Boyega's character had one of the biggest arcs in The Force Awakens, starting out as a First Order stormtrooper sent out on his first mission, before transitioning to scared deserter, hesitant companion to Daisy Ridley's Rey and BB - 8, and finally, a full - fledged hero of the Resistance.

The story follows a small group of deserters fleeing from a raging battle through an overgrown field.

It's too late to fix the Free State of Jones, director - writer Gary Ross» well - meaning historical drama about the curious case of Newton Knight, an army deserter who inspired a mixed race coalition of Mississippi farmers and runaway slaves to revolt against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

Cage opts out, only to be branded a deserter, busted down to private status, and dropped into the battalion's infantry squad.

This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a WWI deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman... but after the war ends, he can't bring himself to revert to his former identity.

In Nos années folles («Golden Years»), Deladonchamps is Paul, a military deserter who disguises himself as a woman, with the help of his wife, to escape World War I.

Forcing them to either accept the mission or be hunted down as deserters, he sends the soldiers deep into enemy lands to retrieve a wealthy Roman family.

Set in Virginia during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds the desperate Corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell), an injured Union soldier and a deserter seeking refuge at an all - female Southern boarding school.

Though the aforementioned schoolchildren have heard of John Brown and know that his body lies a-mouldering in the grave, probably none had heard of Newton Knight, a real character on whom this film is based, and whose heroism as a farmer who became a deserter (for good reasons) emerges when he becomes a freedom fighter.

Along the journey, they encounter Nawazudin, a free - spirited army deserter with his own selfish motives who helps them reach their destination.

The Hunger Games director thoroughly researched American farmer and soldier Newton Knight, who led a band of Confederate army deserters during the...

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

All the major characters remain, and the central question of the novel — should Billy stay in the army or turn deserter, as his sister implores — is the same.

His main goal is to package the war and sell it to the citizenry, but when he runs afoul of a European commander (Brendan Gleeson), he's labeled a deserter and forced into combat even when, he readily admits, he can barely handle the trauma of a paper cut.

A deserter accused of manslaughter figures into the plot.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.