Sentences with phrase «as civilians with»

Under the plans, future detective squads would contain a mixture of elite officers as well as civilians with specialist backgrounds, including people with knowledge and experience of different ethnic groups.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

But there are other ways Assad can kill hundreds of civilians at once, as he's been doing for years with virtual impunity: barrel bombs.

Other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, as well as civilian businesses, are ramping up orders with defence contractors too.

«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

Smith has build a successful career as a professional communicator — and realizes that some of the current gaps between American civilian and military life owe to how veterans discuss their experiences, and who they discuss them with.

Steve Ward, who spent seven years as an officer with the Seattle Police Department and six with the city's SWAT team, says he founded Seattle - based VieVu in 2007 to protect officers against unfounded civilian complaints.

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

In what's being characterized as the closest encounter yet between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a civilian aircraft, an Air France plane last month came within 16 feet of colliding with a drone.

With Starbucks's growth and more than 1 million active duty members of the U.S. military transitioning to civilian life in the coming years, Starbucks sees the commitment as a strategic form of outreach to the military community.

As with those of similar convictions in civilian courts, the records are supposed to block defendants from buying guns.

As of November 2016, U.S. civilian employment stood at 152.1 million jobs, with a civilian labor force of 159.5 million people, resulting in a 4.6 % unemployment rate.

In addition to building a pipeline of employment opportunities for transitioning veterans and military spouses, Starbucks is creating connections for these individuals with both civilian and veteran networks for improved reintegration through Military Family Stores, military service organization relationships and other initiatives such as:

As far as Buddhism goes — It's never attacked American buildings and civilians with our own planes as far as I knoAs far as Buddhism goes — It's never attacked American buildings and civilians with our own planes as far as I knoas Buddhism goes — It's never attacked American buildings and civilians with our own planes as far as I knoas far as I knoas I know.

(A committed Christian must acknowledge that intrinsic worth, and yet how many of us react with dismay when reading of such terrible tragedies as the burning of the library in Alexandria, the destruction of the Parthenon during the Crusades and the bombing of cathedrals in World War II while scarcely giving a thought to the thousands of nameless civilians buried in the rubble of those edifices?)

As a priest, I am forced into more encounters with death than most civilians outside of the medical profession.

As a Jewish American, I would LOVE to see ISIS try to invade Israel.They think they're so incredibly tough by forcing unarmed civilians from their homes and threatening them with their lives.

What I've also learnt is having served in the Air Force, with my conduct being desribed as exemplary and service honourable, nevertheless, the same conduct that would be considered as such in war is not always appropriate in civilian environments.

Any way seems that we Muslims are seeing our religion is being Nailed one after another with acts that we disapprove of under any name such as targeting civilians or those in duty of the law and order..!

Murdering hundreds of Libyan civilians with your drones, masquerading as the ARAB SPRING.

How do we reconcile this with the thousands of civilian children who have been killed as a result of U.S. - led wars?

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

American patriotism would be more honest if we Americans were as aware of the moral shortcomings of our past dealings with African - Americans, Native Americans and the civilians of countries with whom we have been at war as Germans are of the Nazi treatment of Jews, gypsies and Russian prisoners of war.

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.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Referencing an earlier comment in the paper that said «Our values matter more than deals with Saudis», he said: «As a world leader in humanitarian aid, the UK must ensure its policies and practices to protect civilians are consistent.

One of the authors actually went to Baghdad to hang out with civilians when the U.S. starting bombing the area as part of its «shock and awe» military campaign.

As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to target and kill civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»

«Whilst the government continues to present these cases as a purely administrative matter, the fact remains that the destruction of houses of worship violates all international norms, as does the use of excessive force on civilians who are peaceably exercising their right to worship in communion with others.

I wouldn't mind living near a mosque as long as the Imam there opposed violent jihad against US civilians and promoted peacefully living with nonMuslim neighbors.

As at 8 pm of Thursday, camp officials were already complying with Governor Shettima's orders as meetings were being held between officials and chairmen of the two local government areas at the camp with participation of members of the civilian JTF while the camp was combed with searches being conducteAs at 8 pm of Thursday, camp officials were already complying with Governor Shettima's orders as meetings were being held between officials and chairmen of the two local government areas at the camp with participation of members of the civilian JTF while the camp was combed with searches being conducteas meetings were being held between officials and chairmen of the two local government areas at the camp with participation of members of the civilian JTF while the camp was combed with searches being conducted.

Students recognised the need to bring Pakistan's foreign policy formulation under civilian control so as to establish relations with the country's neighbours on a paradigm based on shared development and people - to - people contact.

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

While parts of this logic make sense in the abstract, and do make an attempt to come to grips with the unusual nature of the threat posed by terrorism, the rationale conforms neither to the experience with drone attacks to date (which have incurred heavy civilian casualties) or to the efforts of other countries, such as Israel (more on this below), to respect the imminence restraint.

The ministry emphasised that, as with the military, redundancies to the civilian workforce are being treated as a last resort.

«It seems as though military equipment acquisition is vying in a technological race with the delivery of civilian software systems for the title of «world's most delayed technical solution».

From 1 January 2014 through 31 October 2015, UNAMI / OHCHR recorded at least 55,047 civilian casualties as a result of the conflict, with 18,802 people killed and 36, 245 wounded

Especially for Trump Vs. Syria, you're hitting two birds with one stone: (a) you appease generally - anti-Shia-axis right wing hawks - especially as this also plays against Iran; (b) you appease anyone who doesn't like chemical weapons used against civilians across the spectrum on humanitarian angle.

«After a lengthy substantive discussion with the Mayor, he and I agree that the confluence of recent circumstances will preclude me from further fulfilling my goals as Chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board,» Emery wrote in a statement issued by the Mayor's Office.

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - New York, filed a resolution with Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas, to condemn the use of civilians as human shields by the terrorist group Hamas and support Israel's right to self - defense.

The residents claimed Captain Mahama was a robber as he was in civilian clothing at the time, and with a gun.

Further, another group from your tribe, the Fulani Herdsmen, have been terrorizing the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, raping women and killing innocent civilians with impunity; yet you have continued to carry on as if the victims are the animals themselves.

Syria: From War to Dissolution With Help Of Media The Syrian opposition has accused the government of launching a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs that killed large numbers of civilians as they slept.

Vice President Joe Biden broke down in tears as President Obama surprised «my brother» with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, during a White House ceremony yesterday.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal... Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).

The Governor who described May 29 as a child of June 12, argued that, it was the unrelenting pursuit of the actualization of June 12 with the sweat and blood of patriots and nationalists that led to military disengagement and civilian rule on May 29.

According to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.), Fort Drum will only lose 28 soldiers, as the U.S. Army reduces troop levels from 490,000 active soldiers to 450,000, with thousands of civilian jobs expected to be cut as well.

Waterboarding, stress positions, extended sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged solitary confinement have all been deplored by the U.S. State Department when practiced by other countries, by U.S. civilian courts in cases other than those dealing with terrorism, and by respected global humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee for the Red Cross.

The AG's report further suggests the Troy police department should overhaul its investigative approach to officer - involved shootings; abstain from prejudging (and publicly announcing) the results of an investigation before it has been completed; make broad efforts to identify and promptly speak with all civilian witnesses; and properly train investiagtors in the evaluation of evidence, as well as reaching out to outside experts when questions arise.