Sentences with phrase «but military victory»
A nation that has never known anything but military victory has recently twice had to settle for a draw, not because we have really been beaten, but because our very intoxication with our own power has led us into untenable situations where the cost of «victory» became so great that it was no longer tolerable.
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Coalition officials say the change is helping speed up Iraqi military gains, but it marks a steady escalation of US involvement in Iraq that could undermine the sustainability of Iraq's territorial victories.
Coalition officials say the change is helping speed up Iraqi military gains, but it marks a steady escalation of U.S. involvement in Iraq that could undermine the sustainability of Iraq's territorial victories.
Again, they had won a military victory, but not control.
But how different was Esther's and Mordecai's military victory from the Passover deaths that enabled Moses and Aaron to lead the people to freedom?
One will not pray that his nation may have military or political victory over another, but rather will pray that God's victory may prevail in all nations.
The government in Abuja and the military have frequently claimed victories against the Islamic State group affiliate but access to the epicentre of the conflict in Borno state is strictly controlled.
«Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full - scale use of high - yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.»
The military declared victory over the group, but they quickly reorganized under a new leader, Abu bakar Shekau, who steered the group in a more radical - militarist direction.
Belize clearly lay in the Maya heartland: not only are some of the earliest sites, like that of Cuello in Orange Walk, found in the country, but the recent discovery of glyphs at Caracol, Cayo District, apparently portraying a military victory over Tikal suggests that some of the Belizean centres were supreme in the region.
The automatic and sensible argument here is that the game is simply providing more options for achieving victory rather than simply generating the most effective military machine, but as something that advertises itself as being a deck - building area - control game I guess I was simply expecting the area - control aspect to actually matter in the grand scheme of things.