Sentences with phrase «as civilians just»

It's really no one in particular's fault as civilians just can't handle the military life and soldiers can't handle civilian life.

Not exact matches

It violates our most basic God - given rights just as Jesus would not advocate aggressive preemptive wars killing thousands of innocent civilians as a means of attaining peace.

They are largely incompetent at what they do, and are quickly upstaged by Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear)-- this guy is a genuine superhero, who arrives just in time to save the day and completely upstages the «wannabe» heroes, who are treated as a joke by the police officers, villains, civilians on the scene, and Captain Amazing himself.

As reports of civilian casualties mount, we see that, just as Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent liveAs reports of civilian casualties mount, we see that, just as Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent liveas Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent lives.

just as a comment on my own personal experience, the next religious conservative i meet who expresses remorse over the loss of sacred but iraqi life, civilian or military, in the iraq war will be the first.

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

Just as universities do not require women to share rooms and showers with men in college dormitories, heterosexual personnel should not be forced to interact with homosexuals without recourse to other living arrangements available to most civilians.

Even a cursory check of the news will impress upon a reasonable person that some areas of the world are just too dangerous to be as a normal, unarmed civilian.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

This is just as intolerable as the rockets missiles directed indiscriminately toward civilian targets in Israel... Demonizing others, however, does not eliminate their rights.»

Probably, but just ask General Westmoreland about civilian (and US troop) casualties in Vietnam and you'll get a number about 20 % of the real thing... as usual.

Sure, VX or Sarin are buggers to synthesize, especially if you want them as a binary, but something like mustard or dimethyl mercury is not seriously going to challenge any decent industrial chemist, or even just industrial Chlorine (Pool supply company, industrial gasses supply house), not effective against a soldier in CW gear, but against civilians?

Just wanted to note that about double as many civilians, if not more, were killed by the anti-IS coalition during the Mosul campaign alone.

Elsewhere in the Mail interview, which comes just days after a report claimed 655,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed since military action in March 2003, he criticised reconstruction plans as «poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced he would accede to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's request to be named special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer kills a civilian — even as the governor noted that he took the step with reluctance, and that the appointment would last just one year.

Thousands of Burmese army soldiers have been sent to attack ethnic minority civilian populations, mortar - bombing villages, just as mine was mortar bombed so many years ago.

and officers in range of his voice — as well as many civilians — did just that.

«If you're going to college, take the new mission of integrating back into civilian life just as a regular mission,» Peterson says.

Since Rob is a pilot, he just wears his flight suit to work every day and rarely gets the chance to don «civilian clothing» as he calls it.

So if you're not fond of actually being near an army base (either as a civilian or as a soldier), this might just be your best bet.

Ultimately, I found the film to be just OK, and as narcissistic and self - congratulatory as this is: the best part about the whole experience, was seeing myself on the big - screen as a panicked / witless civilian.

A late - night conversation as Jiro waits for a date with his bride - to - be ends with a mysterious stranger telling him that Japan will burn along with technological ally Germany — and we know that it does burn, not just in the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in the devastation of Allied incendiary bombs dropped on a civilian population that had, for centuries, built their homes from paper and wood.

Today, just as it was true following the conclusion of World War Two, veterans are more susceptible to monetary troubles than their civilian counterparts.

An American civilian, I felt just as foreign on the island's bases as off.

And just as the daily life of a servicemember can be vastly different from that of a civilian consumer, so, too, can their financial needs vary in big ways.

I just wish they'd perhaps taken things further because I never felt much for the character I was playing as or the near zombie - like workers, or for the civilians you occasionally get to see.

We have a set mission as a lone Marine sniper besides just finding the kidnapped brother, to take down the bad guys, the Separatists, and be the hero saving civilians.

The pedestrians and their terrible A.I hardly execute any sense of emotion either; one moment a civilian will be screaming in fear and then, if you bump into them, they'll just carry on walking as if nothing happened.

This disconnect between story and free roam modes is further widened by the fact that you can just as easily slaughter the local civilian population and consume them for health without consequence.

Just as a reminder of how un-invested the United States is in energy inquiry, I can't resist republishing a graph that has become an icon here on Dot Earth — a portrait of half a century of federal investment in basic civilian research and development (provided by Kei Koizumi of the Office of Science and Technology Policy):

Just some evidence or information I've picked up as a civilian along the way trying to understand this incredibly complex chaotic topic.

And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»

These changes will ripple out to the civilian world, too — just as military demand propelled the development that eventually drove down the cost of American steel, radar, GPS, and microchips.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Also, the post-9-11 experience has been that, contrary to common belief, civilian courts are actually a faster way of resolving cases of non-uniformed persons who commit violent, war - like acts than military tribunals and impose penalties that are just as harsh as those imposed by military tribunals.

As I just mentioned, your second option after discharge would be to apply for Term life insurance through the conventional civilian market.

Just as veterans enter a wide variety of civilian jobs when they leave the military, current military personnel also hold some unusual positions while in the service.

I had just finished my military service and after being honorably discharged, I was eager to enter the world of Avionics as a civilian.

While aviation is likely the first thing that comes to mind when a military member hears the word «runway,» fashion model Heidi Klum could just as well be talking about the abrupt nature of military to civilian transition when she tells aspiring fashion designers: «One day, you're in; the next day, you're out.

Don't just list your MOC IDs and military acronyms, as they may make perfect sense to you but won't mean anything to a civilian reader.

Just as in a civilian divorce, a military divorce will involve procedural requirements, property distribution, and perhaps child support or maintenance.