Sentences with phrase «army life in»

Using questions with scales such as «Very dissatisfied» to «Very satisfied» and «Not at all like me» to «Very much like me,» the questionnaire explores the soldier's strengths, weaknesses, challenges, positives, and negatives in response to challenges and opportunities of army life in these 4 domains.

Kevin Powers» novel about army life in Iraq was a critical favorite, won lots of writing prizes, and was a best - seller.

Though the world may be at war, Army life in France is a complete laugh for Jim and his two pals, the short and stocky bartender «Bull» O'Hara (Tom O'Brien) and the tall, odd - looking tobacco - spitting riveter «Slim» Jenson (Karl Dane).

I live by myself I have three kids to girl on boy growing up not living at home I retire from the Army I live in Winfield on my own house I am 70 years old I like to go out dining and maybe dance on weekends while I to travel to Mexico

Not exact matches

Being in the army was a distinct privilege during a period of my life that made me who I am today.

In my final position with the U.S. Army, my daily duties were mostly managerial and I seized the opportunity to prepare for my departure into civilian life.

This was by far the most exciting thing to ever happen in the lives of millions of average working men, nearly all of whom in all the armies felt their cause was just.

But as Assad reasserts control after the army and its allies routed rebels in Aleppo, these Syrians living in exile fear that a new crackdown that will include arrests and executions, and be worse than anything witnessed pre-war.

The army told AFP that live fire was used in a confrontation with the protesters after some threw rocks, firecrackers and petrol bombs at soldiers and border police.

'' [It] captures the dark humor and absurdity of Army life and the banality of combat and death in wartime.

The founder of the greatest rock band of all time might have a had much different path in life if he hadn't received a general discharge for poor conduct nine months into an Army enlistment in his late teens — a stint that actually included basic training at California's Fort Ord.

Poitier served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York, but eventually grew tired of Army life.

The film's title refers to the difficult years of China's Cultural Revolution, which Guo Pei's parents — a batalion leader in the People's Army, and her mother, a kindergarten teacher, whom we meet in the film — lived through.

According to Perry Marshall's «Swiss army knife» method, there is a relationship between your customers and the elements in their lives.

The most important and unregrettable time of my life was the 12 years I spent in the Army.

born in 1927, deserted Germany Army in 1945; was his life between 1927 and 1945 irrelevant?

«My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance - in this life or the next.»

I think, If you have an issue with showering in front of those you are counting on to save your life, you probably shouldn't be enlisting yourself in the army.

I'm merely an Army brat, having spent the first sixteen years of my life living on or near Army bases in the U.S. and Germany.

Millions of German - speaking people who had lived in Poland and elsewhere in central Europe for centuries fled their homes as the Red Army advanced, fearing (rightly) for their lives.

And, you will find they are all working hard to live up to God's standards, free of false teachings, having true love for their brothers around the world, living in peace even today, not willing to join anybody's army, nor join political parties but respectful of national governments and authorities, law abiding but God's kingdom interests come first, carrying out the world wide assignment God has given them.

And again one by one — more vaguely it is true, yet all - inclusively — I call before me the whole vast anonymous army of living humanity; those who surround me and support me though I do not know them; those who come, and those who go; above all, those who in office, laboratory and factory, through their vision of truth or despite their error, truly believe in the progress of earthly reality and who today will take up again their impassioned pursuit of the light.

As a soldier in the Army I must uphold my duty to defend life, for it is precious, gifted to us by God, and no one has the right to take it.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

My three and a half years in the Army during World War II and its immediate aftermath gave a new direction to my life.

Many in life are living like the army of God in that day.

Their membership ceremony is very baptismal, no water, but it's definitely a public expression of a new life, following Jesus, in The Army.

In 70 C.E., the Roman armies besieged Jerusalem and destroyed the city, with widespread loss of life to its inhabitants.

My parents were both rescued as orphans by the Salvation Army when they were about 10 years old... and living in different parts of Canada.

She said the landmine that upended her life in 2009 was probably planted by another rebel group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, which remains active in many parts of the country.

Hawkins» character had a rough childhood, a stint in the Army Rangers, and lives a quiet life with his wife Nicole until «he's pulled back into action as his past comes looking for him.»

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she liveIn preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

It's no secret that C.S. Lewis fought for the British Army in his early years of life.

That means in Germany lives an Muslim army of 240,000 crypto - jihadists.

I remind you of Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan Cpl US Army, a 20 year old Muslim US citizen who lay his life in Iraq in 2007 for his country.

By the time I was a teenager at the Jesus camps, pledging my life to being a warrior in God's culture army, I had memorized Bible verses as answers, and developed a pretty major evangelical hero complex along with my superiority and false sense of control.

She remembers sitting in the pew, flipping through the hymnal and adding «in the bathtub» to each song title: «I Stand All Amazed in the Bathtub»; «I Know that My Redeemer Lives in the Bathtub»; «Behold a Royal Army in the Bathtub.»

They gather a little army around them, they have war councils in their living rooms and plan the downfall of those they oppose, all the while praying for «wisdom, guidance and, above all, that your name may be honoured».

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

In the initial stages, it was the US, which used Afghans, Pakistanis and Muslims from other countries for making the Soviet army bleed without losing American lives.

There were fierce battles on faraway frontiers between giant armies, but the people living in the interior, Muslim or non-Muslim, Turk or non-Turk, were able to go about their business In peace and safetin the interior, Muslim or non-Muslim, Turk or non-Turk, were able to go about their business In peace and safetIn peace and safety.

In the 640s, Muslim armies conquered Egypt, and ever since the Christians of the region have lived under Islamic rule.

This leads to the suggestion that in cases in which a homeless alcoholic seems to have even an embryonic desire for help, it may be wise to discuss the matter with an AA member who has himself lived on Skid Row, rather than referring the person directly to the Salvation Army.

After finishing Airborne School, he quit the Army in August 2009, believing the military would demand too much time away from his family at a critical juncture in their lives.

But, curiously enough, when I came to my first clear conviction on the materialism - dualism - idealism issue it was not of any particular philosopher or writer that I was thinking but of life and nature as I then experienced them while serving in a humble role in an army hospital.

«But now, almost 70 years after his village in Poland was liberated by the Soviet Army, Gersten will meet the man who is the Oskar Schindler of his own life: Czeslaw Polziec... Polziec is Catholic.

The Army captain had learned that people in pain are often wide - open to inviting God into their lives.

I'm a retired senior Army officer and I live in Washington State where I voted for the gay marriage initiative here.

This is why most universities now have full - time directors of residence life, directors of student activities, directors of counseling, and an army of professional and peer counselors and advisers in residence.

VanHagar wrote on Wdenesday, May 2, 2012 at 7:47 pm, stating, «It was in faith in God that gave us the Salvation Army, Abused Children «s Fund, Freedom 424 (serving victims of s.ex trafficking), Bright Hope International (working with the poor), Children «s Christian Lifeline Hunger and Medical Relief, Christian World Relief, Five Talents - USA, Inc., Habitat for Humanity International, Living Water International (providing clean water), etc. etc. and hundreds (if not thousands) of other faith - based charities help the poor and disenfranchised.