Sentences with phrase «armies marching on»

Like the old military maxim holds, an army marches on its stomach.

He learned that power corrupts, that an army marches on its stomach, and that if you would teach a hungry man, first you had better feed him.

Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach.

An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, but so too sails a navy.

As the fashion week army marches on, one of the themes that resonated with me was the style inspiration from the punk era, led mostly by Philipp Plein.

If an army marches on its stomach, then a cruise ship glides on the whole digestive tract.

Not exact matches

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta on Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month - long assault by the army.

ISTANBUL, March 18 - Turkish - backed Syrian rebel fighters took control of parts of the town of Afrin on Sunday after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army rebel fighters said.

BEIRUT / DAMASCUS, March 15 - Thousands of Syrians fled a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday and crossed by foot to army positions, the largest such outflow in almost a month of fighting, as troops seized more ground in the opposition stronghold.

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels left one besieged enclave on Friday and agreed to abandon another, leaving only the city of Douma still in insurgent hands in eastern Ghouta after a month - long army assault to drive them from the stronghold near Damascus.

Assigned to the U.S. Army's 90th Infantry Division, 359th Infantry Regiment, Scardino arrived in Britain on March 23, 1944, after a 22 - day voyage across the Atlantic.

On March 17 — 18 a communist army attacked and captured a strategic junction between Mukden and Changchun, the former Manchukuo capital; on April 18 communists captured Changchun from a small Nationalist garrison directly following the Soviet withdrawaOn March 17 — 18 a communist army attacked and captured a strategic junction between Mukden and Changchun, the former Manchukuo capital; on April 18 communists captured Changchun from a small Nationalist garrison directly following the Soviet withdrawaon April 18 communists captured Changchun from a small Nationalist garrison directly following the Soviet withdrawal.

He joined hundreds of Christians on the march before visiting a Salvation Army branch at Regent Hall Church on Oxford Street.

Make no mistake, Norman Mailer's latest is neither a great retelling of the gospel nor Mailer anywhere near the peaks that he reached with his political writing that culminated in the compulsively readable account of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, The Armies of the Night, or even Executioner's Song, his story of the ending of the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty with the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore.

The story is about Israel's God — the God who lives on a mountain down south somewhere, whose subject are an enslaved people — marching onto the home field of the superpower of the day and beating up their army and their gods.

There is something sort of thrilling and even sinister about Britney's song here, with her inky mewling taking on just the slightest hint of menace when played behind a thunder god marching towards vengeance, lightning bolt - ing undead armies over the rainbow bridge into the gaping maw of eternity.

When the Prophet sent an army out to fight, he would say, March in the name of God and by His aid and on the religion of the Messenger of God.

Andrew Jackson based his decision to ignore the SCOTUS decree & call on the Army to march them out on profits, not religion.

The other concentrated on one night in July 1970 when an army of women marched arm in arm into the town of Lower Falls to face the guns of the British Army enforcing a curfew in a Catholic communarmy of women marched arm in arm into the town of Lower Falls to face the guns of the British Army enforcing a curfew in a Catholic communArmy enforcing a curfew in a Catholic community.

All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man on the earth as much as that ONE SOLITARY LIFE of JESUS CHRIST, who is the Lord of all creation and our coming King.

The daughter of Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe and Alan Wells Anscombe (science master at Dulwich College), Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, known to the academic world as «Miss Anscombe» and to her friends as «Elizabeth,» was born on March 18, 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, where her father, then a British army officer, was posted.

6) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un will deliver a rousing, oratory «gangnam style» and command his army to march while miming like they are on horseback.

A special KISS Army Rock & Brews package is available at the Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Golf & Spa Resort that includes a two - night stay in a deluxe room with a Jacuzzi and private terrace (double occupancy) March 22 and 23, two tickets to the invitation - only Rock & Brews opening on March 22, a private seaside reception and photo opportunity with Gene and Paul at the resort's Five Star Diamond De Cortez restaurant prior to the opening event, a breakfast buffet for two at the resort's Tomatoes restaurant, and a Rock & Brews t - shirt for $ 749, including tax, based on availability.

U.S. manager Don Clark, looking forward to his two - game exhibition invasion of the U.S.S.R. which is due to follow the tournament, sadly surveyed his handful of survivors and cracked, «This is probably the most battered army that ever marched on Moscow.»

One Augustan, a retired Army officer in his 70s, first tried to sell his four - day badge on March 28.

Arsenal aren't the only ones giving him marching orders though; he's currently on an army boot camp in his home country.

Others credited with goals in the opening 30 seconds include Peter Taylor against Sunderland at White Hart Lane on 22 April 1978 - variously timed at 25 to 28 seconds - and Foster Hedley for our reserve team against The Army on 5 March 1934.

The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Kaduna State Command SIB operatives, smashed a deadly killer gang and arrested 4 suspects in connection with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of an army officer, Col. Samaila Yunusa, in Kaduna on 27th March, 2016.

At the 1976 Conservative conference, Michael Heseltine fired a volley of attacks on Labour, calling it «a rabble of political extremists» and «a one - legged army limping away», mimicking their imagined marching orders: «Left!

Pensioners will join the army of groups fighting government cuts tomorrow, when they march on parliament over threats to the bus pass and winter fuel allowance.

The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

His statement in full, «The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to the unfortunate statement made by a former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, during the convocation ceremony of the Taraba State University on Saturday 24 March 2018 in which he categorically asserted that the Armed Forces of Nigeria was colluding with militias and other criminal elements and was unable to provide security for the citizens of Taraba State.

TICONDEROGA Fort Ticonderoga is hosting a one - day living history event Saturday, on March 24 as new recruits and veteran troops prepare to join the ongoing Continental Army campaign against Canada in spring 1776.

It was only on March 1 that I received a letter from the army, officially informing me of the beginning of the operation in the state when it actually began on February 15.

A statement signed by Col Sani Usman, Acting Director, Army Public Relations said, «The Nigerian Army wishes to regrettably inform the public that Colonel Samaila Inusa who was kidnapped on Sunday 27th March 2016, was found dead today at about 6.00 pm.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

On March 1, 1954, the U.S. Army detonated a thermonuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall IslandOn March 1, 1954, the U.S. Army detonated a thermonuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islandon Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Reichel speculates that an army of a few hundred Uruk soldiers marched on Hamoukar but found the city harder to conquer than anticipated.

In March, EPA began examining mountaintop - mining permits, putting six permits that had been issued by the Army Corps on hold and announcing that as many as 200 other permits would also be scrutinized for their environmental impacts.

An aeroplane operating against armies in the field would, therefore, probably use shrapnel, an explosive shell filled with hundreds of bullets and equipped with a time - fuse in such manner that it can be exploded above bodies of troops on the march, supports, reserves, wagon trains, camps, etc. shrapnel is considered one of the most effective projectiles used in modern warfare, and it does not require a military expert to imagine the havoc it would work on a body of troops en masse.

Marched with Armies of the Night on the Pentagon in 1968.

He died on March 28, 1969, at the Army Hospital in Washington, DC, and was laid to rest in Abilene, Kansas, at the Eisenhower PresidentialLibrary.

Individual images in his «Macbeth» carry real impact, such as the overhead shot near the end of Macbeth and Macduff, both bloody messes, kneeling, as the army marches straight past them on the way to Scotland's uncertain future.

Even better, the good doctor's detailed journal is also in play and if Naberius can get his hands on this beastly cookbook, he can create an army of morgue - marching minions who will start «a war that will bring an end to mankind.»

Co-Optimus readers have seen their fair share of Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel trailers in the past few weeks, but it is to be expected with the 2 player co-op title due out on the 26th March.

In Schuck's words, voucher advocates must build an «army of black and brown mothers who will march on the capitol steps to demand a quality education for their kids.»

The teacher union - backed SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — will have the Army of Angry Teachers and others taking to the streets and screaming about various education issues such budgetary shortfalls that must be made up by «taxing the rich.»

So begins a letter from Union Army soldier Daniel Parker to his parents, written on March 23, 1862.

Rituals and tasks designed to accomplish these goals become much more difficult following the occupation of the Pakistan Army beginning on March 25, 1971.

Tasker, of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, was shot while on patrol in Helmand province on March 1.