Sentences with phrase «armed resistance in»

By the time the West struck back just under a week later, armed resistance in the areas around the Syrian government's seat of power had all but collapsed, further strengthening the hand of President Bashar al - Assad.

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With arm bands around my forearm that register my hand and arm movements in VR, the resistance machine was my controller.

There was no resistance, but officers found a large stock of arms at the villa in Yerres, 12 miles southeast of Paris, a ministry official said.

The main liberation movement, the ANC, long committed to nonviolent resistance under the influence of Gandhi and its Christian roots, had by 1963 decided, after agonizing debate, to engage in an armed struggle.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Moreover, it is characteristic of black power philosophy to insist, with Hartshorne, that, under certain conditions, those who support the struggle may rightfully engage in armed resistance to oppression.

When Spain's civil war broke out in 1936, he opposed Franco early, even bending his pacifist principles to support armed aid for the resistance.

Both hawks and doves reasoned that war would disappear in face of the insane disproportion between armed force and any hope of resistance.

The death toll in Syria has risen sharply after government forces tried to recapture Homs, Syria's third - largest city and home to armed resistance fighters.

It's this constant reflection upon what is happening here, in the light of nuclear arms, saying something to folks about the utter urgency of this resistance.

There was a great deal of resistance to the French army's abuses and occupation and Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory (in Puebla) of the smaller, poorly armed Mexicans over the much larger French army.

Another brother, Robert, took to the countryside and fought with the armed resistance, the Maquis, which engaged in guerilla raids on occupation forces.

In sympathy with her brothers, Raymonde wore armbands under her clothes, ones bearing the Cross of Lorraine or the letters «FFI» standing for «Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur,» associated with the armed resistance, despite the obvious danger should a German soldier discover the fact.

To strengthen the muscles in your back, try this exercise: with your arms straight out in front of you, spaced about shoulder with a part, hold a resistance band with both hands.

With your arms straight out in front of you spaced about shoulder width apart, hold your resistance band with both hands.

This community managed to decrease armed activities in its territory through nonviolent resistance based on unity and collective leadership.

(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

But as Loos analyzed the data further, she saw that while men with this variant indeed had less fat in their arms, legs and trunk, they also had higher triglycerides — fat found in the blood — and lower good cholesterol in their blood and increased insulin resistance, all signs of ill health.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

This process was hypothesized to result from an evolutionary chemical arms race, in which the invention of potent venom in the predatory animals and the evolution of venom resistance in their prey animals, exert reciprocal selection pressures.

This paper, however, shows an arms race that includes behavioral resistance to certain types of food — in this case, glucose.

In C. albicans, an isochromosome 5 can arise in response to fluconazole treatment and confers drug resistance because the left arm of Chr 5 encodes Erg11 (lanosterol 14α demethylase), the target of fluconazole, and Tac1, a transcription factor that activates expression of drug export pumps [15], [17In C. albicans, an isochromosome 5 can arise in response to fluconazole treatment and confers drug resistance because the left arm of Chr 5 encodes Erg11 (lanosterol 14α demethylase), the target of fluconazole, and Tac1, a transcription factor that activates expression of drug export pumps [15], [17in response to fluconazole treatment and confers drug resistance because the left arm of Chr 5 encodes Erg11 (lanosterol 14α demethylase), the target of fluconazole, and Tac1, a transcription factor that activates expression of drug export pumps [15], [17].

This enzyme inhabits in bacteria and arms them with resistance to almost all commonly used beta - lactam antibiotics including the so - called «last resort» Carbapenem.

In the intention - to - treat sample (n = 190), remission rates were compared for the 2 treatment arms using logistic regression and controlling for site, treatment resistance, age, and duration of the current depressive episode.

Keeping your upper arms close to your head (elbows in) and perpendicular to the floor, lower the resistance behind your head until your forearms touch your biceps.

Hold a resistance band in front of you with your arms extended straight out.

In addition, the resistance band provides a marker of how level each arm is with one another, an especially difficult task when one hand is completely outside the range of vision.

While with the standard exercises the resistance is reduced as the hands approach the chest, by flexing your shoulders, i.e. keeping your arms slightly in front of the torso, you add to the resistance when you pull the cable towards your body.

Keeping your legs and upper body fixed in place, extend your arm fully against the resistance offered by the cable.

Hold a relatively light resistance band out in front of your chest with your arms straight.

It does this by connecting your hands, arms, core, legs, and ankles with a series of straps and rubber resistance bands in a non-intrusive, comfortable, and highly adjustable way.

Using your own bodyweight as resistance, the Physique 57 workout targets the muscles in your arms, thighs, seat and abs to the point of fatigue then stretches them for relief.

This is important in order to move the resistance closer to the arms (that are actually doing the work).

«Although you aren't working with weights or resistance bands, the unsupported arm exercise involved in tai chi strengthens your upper body,» says internist Dr. Gloria Yeh, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

With one arm behind your back, grab a rope, towel or resistance band (I am using a mini strength band / booty band in the video).

Actually, you could use all manner of resistance band exercises to hit all the muscles in the arms.

By setting your one arm out to the side like an outrigger, you shift a LOT more tension onto the working side, allowing you get enough resistance to actually achieve substantial muscle growth, and not just increase your muscular endurance (as tends to be the case once you're able to do 20 or more normal push - ups in a row).

The problem comes when you raise the arms up and add resistance in that position.

Machine flyes can be awkward, as the arms of the machine might not be long enough, or the resistance curve can be too close or too far out in front of your body.

The patient will experience pain when using the muscle in particular trying to pull the arm across the front of the chest against resistance or rotating the arm inwards against resistance.

Finally, for added resistance, hold a light weight or a medicine ball in your extended arms as you perform the movement.

Recently Kostek et al. (12) showed a significant reduction in the subcutaneous fat in a trained arm compared to an untrained arm only in men (p < 0.05) after 12 weeks of supervised resistance training when measured by the skinfold technique but not by MRI (12).

Hey Todd, I'm interested in this program but I don't know if it is what I want, I obviously want the big arms big chest wide shoulders and abs and overall fitness, I workout with bodylastics resistance bands and I was woundering if I could incorporate them somehow in it, another thing im a vegetarian and I want to gain muscle and lose fat but I find it hard to due to my limited protein choices, help!!

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime.

In a nutshell: Sonic is missing, presumed dead, Tails has gone off on his own and the rest of Sonic's friends have taken up arms to form a resistance against Eggman and Infinite.

The movie takes place in April 1945, and while World War II has all but ended, the fanatical German resistance continues to fight, forcing women and children to pick up arms and hanging those who refuse.

What's marvelous about the train robbery that kicks off this last episode is the way it unites so many allies — the Gladers, Brenda and Jorge, and «Right Arm» resistance leader Vince (the great Barry Pepper)-- in exhilarating feats that showcase their individual qualities of shrewdness, strength, and precision.

At the end of «Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,» Thomas (Dylan O'Brien, «Deepwater Horizon») and his friends have finally found solace in the mountains with a resistance group known as the Right Arm.

In pursuit of increased rigidity and weight reduction, the lower arms and damper forks are made out of aluminium and the very high resistance compliance bushes also contribute to the car's responsive handling.