Sentences with phrase «argued against military»

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Supporters of a change in the current DOD policy argue that just as blacks and women experienced discrimination in the past, so too are homosexuals discriminated against today by being excluded from military service.

Those inclined to argue that Jesus now would advise us precisely the opposite of what he did in the New Testament — this on the basis that, regarding both tax demands and military activity, our U.S. Caesar is so much worse than his Roman one was — these people should be warned against reading Martin Hengel's little book Victory Over Violence.

If you're looking for good, clear military cases for and against building more F - 22s, you can't do better than checking out Mark Bowden's Atlantic Monthly article arguing for more and Fred Kaplan's very effective Slate.com response (Kaplan in a nutshell — it's hard to imagine too many geopolitical scenarios in which our having an extra 20 % of this one particular type of aircraft is going to make enough of a difference to justify the cost of building them).

Martins now argues that the general election should also be moved to allow adequate time for the winner to campaign against Democratic candidate Thomas Suozzi and to comply with a federal law that requires 45 days for ballots to be able to reach military and overseas voters.

Gillibrand led some Senate Democrats in an ill - fated push against giving a waiver to allow retired Gen. James Mattis to become defense secretary, arguing the principle of civilian control of the military should not be violated.

Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

Environmentalists since the early 1970s had argued more generally that the world would be more secure if it spent less money on military defense and more on defense against pollution and other environmental dangers.

Thorne - Begland's opponents argued that they voted against him not because he was gay, but rather because his advocacy «amounted to military insubordination and a challenge to the state constitution, which bans gay marriage and civil unions,» the Post reports.

A. Then, on the other hand, it says, in Part IV, that Rita's sentence is reasonable because he offered no evidence that he would be retaliated against in prison and because he did not argue that military service is deserving of leniency.

Mr. Bolton argues the virtues of pre-emptive military action against North Korea and scorns diplomacy of the sort Mr. Trump has embarked on with Kim Jong - un.