Sentences with phrase «army of people who»

I'm well aware there is a literal army of people who never see combat action, yet our troops would be lost without them.

But they are there, a quiet army of people who understand exactly what you're going through, and are going through the same, or even worse, experience.

The positive result of this brouhaha: an army of people who up until this week dismissed the temperature graphs, now not only embrace them but embtace them to a point - to - point accuracy on the scale of 1 / 100th of a degree.

You've won an army of people who dislike your work, and will never read anything you write.

Russell Hobby, General Secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, said: «Our schools depend heavily on the volunteer army of people who choose to become school governors.

«There was a sort of hidden army of people who were so worried about Labour that they literally came out to vote for the first time.»

The Labour leader has a ready - made army of people who want him to do badly, mostly for good reason.

Having armies of people who are trained only to do one thing, and who are incapable of turning their hand to anything else, does not sound like a recipe for long - term success.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

CNBC's «Mad Money» host Jim Cramer calls him «a heroic figure in a landscape filled with people who are just part of a bland army,» while T - Mobile Executive Vice President of corporate services Dave Carey told «The Brave Ones»: «He can be charming on one hand and a raucous Las Vegas night club act on the other.»

The broad range of people who make up Paul's ragtag army — and the depth of their feeling for the Movement — suggest that this is a force that the political Establishment will have to contend with sooner or later.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

Other support has come from top companies like Chase Bank, which administers banking courses for Defy Ventures; and Google, who has added over 450 people to the growing army of volunteers pulled from top companies all across the nation.

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

It's completely transformative for a business to go from operating in a closed bubble (where they just have one or two investors), to suddenly having an army of thousands of people who literally have a vested interest in the success of the company.

Not the increasing numbers of people who make too little to pay any, but the folks with their offshore tax havens, tax shelters and armies of accounting wizards.

Unfortunatly you are mistaken, Comunisum is just another type of dogmatic religioin and Hitlers army (the people who did the actual killing) was almost exclusivly christian.

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.

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.

We all will have to taste death and then raise on that day for accountability and there will be family reunion in heavens and outside of heavens where no one wish to be... what a great loss for the one who would be reunited outside of the heavens like the people of Noah who did not believe in him, people of Lot did things that they were not supposed to do, pharaoh with his army and many more... on the other hand Noah with the ones who believed in him, Abraham and his family who are submitted as Abraham submitted to The One God Almighty, Lot and his daughters and many more...

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

Rorty chides those who have forgotten Nietzsche's admonition that truth is nothing but «a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms — in short a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people» (VPN 46 - 7).

Rightly calling attention to the extremely high level of violence in Colombia, Rivera failed to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence: the paramilitary forces which, although ostensibly private and illegal, receive aid and cooperation from Colombia's army and hence, indirectly, from the U.S. Neither did Rivera mention the 2 million people who have fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms.

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) shot Communist heroes, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander in chief of the Red Army (1925 — 1928) and Béla Kun, a Hungarian revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, as well as the majority of Lenin's Politburo.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

In Vietnam was a primary example of how much this great nation did not want to be Catholic, and the French and American military in particularly know how much after two back - to - back stunning defeats of two western army's, who wanted to convert and save the souls of these people.

We now have very good materials and resources, brave and good bishops, highly trained and well - placed academics and a considerable army of lay people who are seasoned soldiers ready to man their posts.

The Quran was written by an opportunistic genius who (mis --RRB- appropriated many of Jesus» teachings, then added his own (often - conflicting) views and, via an army and violent tactics, forced people to «believe» in him or pay a heavy tax, or die.

Recalling Protestant emphasis on the «priesthood of the people,» Taylor called for a lay ministry which would include: (1) a «Sunday - school army,» (2) Christian associations, (3) the utilization of the «great multitude of women who publish the Word in home and school, mission - bands and temperance unions, and the thousand forms of woman's work for women and for the church,» and (4) the use of the «600,000 youth from Christian Endeavor Societies.

These people who responded to this message, look how hateful and miserable they are, hating there own country and its founders, they probably over weight, and to the one who mentioned the soup lines at salvation army, look I've got den there, and the majority of those there have been there 20 or more years cause they choose to be, I know them personally, they have clearly have never been to a third world country.

Horsley believes the symbolism is unmistakable: Jesus takes control of the Roman forces who have brutalized people and foretells the army's demise.

However, on July 26th, sect members reportedly murdered two people in the Shaffa who had fled to the area following a series of attacks on Damboa in June and July which claimed the lives of an army commander, a police officer, 5 policemen, 16 soldiers, and many civilians.

He died just hours after being admitted to No 81 People's Liberation Army Hospital for a minor stomach ache, a relative of Mr Li's told Bob Fu, a Christian activist who has known the lawyer for over a decade.

On the other hand, the Army * might * protect me from a bunch of crazy people who call us infidels and try to kill us.

«When you add several hundred thousand extra people into a market place, some who are «out of town,» without common decency boundaries and behaving outside of their norms, then the demand for illicit sex will increase,» says Brian Venables, Divisional Secretary for Public Relations and Development of the Salvation Army's British Colombia Division.

Army personnel who refuse to obey unjust orders, draft resistors, people who withhold income taxes because of Vietnam are being branded traitors.

It occurs to me that those of us who are Christians and other people of conscience working to end war and violence (and build an «Army of None» as we like to say) have a tremendous burden of responsibility on our shoulders.

If Islam teaches the destruction of everyone who is not a Muslim, then you have basically an army of 1.2 Billion people hell bent on destroying everyone who is not a mulsim, which would mean that instead of 9 or 10 people blowing up a building, you would have I do nt know 1 million.

«A people who know they are soldiers in God's army and that they are part of a war machine engaged in conflict with the forces of evil.»

When people hear the name Earl Woods, many immediately think of Tiger and some also think of Earl's breaking the color barrier as a college catcher, but I think of him as Lieutenant Colonel Woods, U.S. Army, a decorated Green Beret who commanded men in Vietnam and served his country.

Statement is baffling and is in fact the very thing that guys like cap and others are fighting against the truth is Colin didn't orignaly kneel during the anthem he sat on his bench he was then approached by vets who asked why he was sitting and asked him to do something else because sitting was disprectful it was those army vets who told cap to kneel because it shows your fighting against something and not just sitting to sit they told him it would be a better look and it's funny how people turn around and say he is disrespecting the very people who told him what to do and how to do it to get his message across this is the ignorance of America and everything cap fights against you judge a man by the color of his skin and his upbringing and not the content of his character you don't know anything about cap yet you pull this entire story out your ass go sit down clown

Perhaps the only people more surprised than the Red Army brass by the dramatic flight of the Bures were the Canucks, who had selected Pavel in the sixth round of the 1989 NHL draft.

Several community members said they are pleased with the changes offered by the Chicago Park District and the Army Corps of Engineers, but others, particularly people who live along the east bank, aren't satisfied.

Every new mom in India is surrounded by a baby - army i.e. people who take of her and her baby.

«It seems nonsensical for the Territorial Army to insist that volunteers take basic fitness tests but then send people who have failed those tests to some of the most dangerous areas in the world,» he continued.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Take this all with a grain of salt though because there were people like Jefferson who was from the south, an aristocratic slave owner but wanted no army, more state power, and was initially hesitant to abandon the monarchy.

Clive Francis, who plays the dictatorial army chief, Major Rice, is spectacularly unnerving — his thinly veiled racism adds to the atmosphere in his confrontations with the black people of the unnamed country.

• The NPP will clothe some of their supporters in military uniforms who will pose as army officers and intimidate people in NDC strongholds including ZONGOs in GREATER ACCRA and CENTRAL Regions.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.