Sentences with phrase «armed force at»

An oppressive or unjust government can remain in power only because it has armed force at its disposal.

Were you ever in the armed forces AT ALL.

trader from whom Captain Maxwell Mahama bought snails, was the one who informed the assemblyman of Denkyira Obuasi that the young military officer was an armed robber, after she had seen the sidearm of the now deceased officer as he took money from his pocket to pay for the snails, police have told journalists at a joint press conference with the Ghana Armed Forces at the Police Headquarters in Accra on Friday, 2 June.

So I'm very sad that this should happen to an officer of the Ghana Army and the Ghana Armed Forces at large,» he said.

«The Coming of the President Muhammadu Buhari, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces at the Theatre Command of Operation LAFIYA DOLE yesterday (57th Independence Day) was a morale booster to us.

In the said reportage, the paper alleged that the COS of the General Headquarters, of the Ghana Armed Forces at Burma Camp, has been indicted for allegedly appropriating a Nissan Hard - body double - cabin vehicle donated to the Southern Command of the Ghana Army by the Bank of Ghana.

«On November 26, 2014, the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh sought for approval of the award of one pair of uniform (in the interim) for the Armed Forces at N165, 375 to El - Jahab Mubarak Nigeria and N330, 750,000 for two pairs.

The surveillance population included all individuals who served on active duty as members of the active or reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces at any time during the surveillance period.

Bordas, A. «Henderson County aims to be first in North Carolina to have armed forces at schools.»

Bramwell expects the drive for efficiency to dominate for the foreseeable future, particularly for a company that ultimately supplies armed forces at the expense of the taxpayer.

The Obama administration made the right decision this week when it decided to ensure that emergency contraception will be made available to women in the armed forces at all hospitals and health centers on U.S. military bases around the world.

Not exact matches

«We did not have anything,» says Gen. Riho Terras, the commander of Estonia's armed forces, who had been a student activist at the time.

Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian was asked about the U.S. bombers at a news briefing on Thursday but would only say the Chinese armed forces had the situation under control.

Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian was asked about the US bombers at a news briefing on Thursday, saying only that Chinese armed forces had the situation under control.

Another loan came from the WOF (since repaid in full), which at one point was forced to borrow $ 10.5 million itself from Beedie Capital Partners (the finance arm of Vancouver developer Ryan Beedie) at 15 % just to make its own follow - on investments.

«This is the fourth general election in a row to be held while Britain is at war and our armed forces are in action in the Middle East and beyond.

In response to such forces, Disney shrank its film - productions arm to focus on family - oriented titles — concepts at little risk of dying from loneliness.

And with today's work force filled with millennials armed with smartphones and social media savvy, any company's public perception can be flipped upside down at the touch of the «publish» button.

BAE recently showed off a prototype of an armed robotic combat vehicle, or ARCV, at the United States Army's Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

«Hezbollah was able in past decades to impose a reality in Lebanon by force of arms directed at the chests of Syrians and Lebanese,» he said.

An expatriate's job is not dissimilar to his stint in the armed forces: personal security detail teams can expect to wake up at 4 a.m., and within hours they'll be running clients to and from airports.

F35 fighter planes flyover prior to the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl between the California Golden Bears and the Air Force Falcons at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, TX.

«Today, however, China is fielding an array of conventionally armed short - range ballistic missiles (SRBMs), as well as ground - and air - launched land - attack cruise missiles (LACMs), special operations forces (SOF), and cyber warfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region,» the report said.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Serving as any other member of the Armed Forces who has been assigned to a duty station at a location other than the location where you are normally assigned, or

It was filmed at an armed forces base in Petawawa, Ont.

(Acknowledges international business partners, veterans and military spouses, Starbucks Armed Forces Network, Starbucks College Achievement Plan students, and Starbucks partners (employees) in attendance with 2,800 at McCaw Hall in Seattle)

On September 15, 2008, a key moment in the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street when Lehman Brothers filed bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was forced into the arms of Bank of America and Citigroup teetered toward insolvency, Deutsche Bank's shares closed the day at $ 58.80 (equivalent price adjusted for a subsequent stock split).

Rafael exhibits it at international arms shows, and armed forces from around the world have shown interest.

Here are some suggestions from members of the Starbucks Armed Forces Network and our partners at Team Red White and Blue, Blue Star Families and Team Rubicon.

We in this country must take a closer look at how we are not respecting the dignity of all persons when we ask our men and women in the armed forces to lie about who they really are.

You want to look at numbers... they account for less than 2 % of India's population, but account for 30 % of the armed forces, they win a disporportionate share of gallantry medals for currage under enemy fire.

Do I demonstrate at our armed forces funerals, no, do Baptists yes.

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

The classic tradition rightly held that not all uses of armed force are morally equivalent: some are wrongly motivated, while others aim at right.

Since without such authority there is no entity competent to determine just cause, exercise right intention, aim at the establishment of peace, and control armed forces in accord with the moral limits of the jus in bello, this lack of sovereignty means that the United Nations as an institution can not have a jus ad bellum in the fundamental just war sense.

«The engineering department of the Egyptian Armed Forces has started to rebuild the church in Atfeeh today at the same exact location,» Army spokesman Maj. Mohamed Askar said.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

The Chinese Muslim's Association was founded in 1357 (A.D. 1938) at the start of the Sino - Japanese war when the Central Government ordered a Muslim general in the armed forces to form a nationwide organization which would unify the Muslims of China in support of the government and obtain support from Muslim countries.

As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my article, the just war way of thinking about the moral exigencies of world politics begins with a presumption for justice — a presumption that the magistrate has the moral obligation to defend the common good, even at the risk of his own life — and then proceeds to a moral analysis of the various means available for securing justice, which can include proportionate and discriminate armed force.

Moderator of its governing body the General Assembly, Rt Rev Dr Derek Browning (pictured above, sitting) signed the Armed Forces Covenant at Edinburgh Castle last night.

For perhaps $ 700, I could arm myself at least as well as an Army Special Forces trooper and, except for the conversion to the LMG category, could do it all legally.

From this standpoint it is at once apparent that, to unify the living forces of humanity, at present so painfully at odds, the direct and effective method is simply to sound the call - to - arms and form a solid block of all those, whether of the right or the left, who believe that the principal business of present - day Mankind is to achieve a breakthrough straight ahead by forcing its way over the threshold of some higher level of consciousness.

But for me, coming from a culture of independence, armed with a battalion of reasons why giving money to every person who asks is imprudent at best and destructive at worst, these conversations always leave me tense, my once genuine smile now forced as I agree to think about the request and then make my escape as quickly as possible.

Mr. Fitzpatrick says that «we would not react patiently to a German who excused his reluctance to use force in 1942 to free concentration camp inmates if he argued that he was convinced at the time that he could do more good by working within the system to end Nazi control than by risking his own arrest and imprisonment in an armed strike to free a few dozen inmates scheduled for the gas chambers on a single morning.»

Apparently getting stuck in a rose bush while weeding stubborn ferns and the thorns digging in your back and arms and pulling at your hair will make you go into a contortionist mode, thereby forcing you to twist your body in unnatural angles to try to free yourself without getting impaled on the thorns.

Michigan State's Branden Dawson saluted the crowd and the soldiers in attendance of the Armed Forces Classic in a converted airplane hangar at Ramstein Air Base in Reinland, Germany.

With Panthers defensive end Kony Ealy coming around the edge at left defensive end forcing Palmer up in the pocket, Palmer had nowhere to go but into Lotulelei's waiting arms.

There is a peculiar kind of loyalty at work here: very similar to the loyalty expected of the population of a nation to its armed forces.

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.