Sentences with phrase «by civilians as»

He also used the opportunity to implore the soldiers to develop good relationship with the police, adding that they should not allow themselves to be used by civilians as dept collectors.

Not exact matches

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

A guard warmly greets Buari by name and compliments him on looking healthier as a civilian.

In that spirit, the US Army has distributed reading recommendations so soldiers and civilians alike are able «to sharpen their knowledge of the Army's long and distinguished history, as well as the decisive role played by landpower in conflicts across the centuries.»

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.

According to Airwars, a UK - based independent monitoring group, between Trump's inauguration and mid-July, more than 2,200 civilians appeared to have been killed in coalition airstrikes — almost as many as the 2,300 likely killed by coalition strikes under Obama.

«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.

That is, «by razing anything that still stands and by mercilessly targeting fighters, civilians, humanitarian workers, hospitals, and ambulances alike — as it does on a daily basis in Aleppo now.»

Inside one of the fridges, black body bags stacked to the side contain the remains of civilians who were methodically gunned down by Islamic State snipers behind a soft - drinks factory as they fled toward Iraqi security forces in June.

A recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration that dismissed China's claims to 85 % of the region are unlikely to improve the situation as Beijing continues civilian flights to the contested region.

As heroes and civilians begin to dissipate, the situation looks bleaker by the second.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

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Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

«We believe that together, as citizens, we have a higher calling to close the military / civilian cultural divide by joining in service to our communities.»

(The NSFG was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is described as a «nationally representative of women 15 - 44 years of age in the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States.»

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.

Of course, you notably worded it as «won't let us catch them», when what is really meant by calling the terrorists cowards is how they hide amongst civilians, perform heinous acts of terrorism against civilians and then run off and hide in tunnels, houses, caves, etc, forever afraid to show their faces.

CNN's Ivan Watson describes a dramatic rescue by the Iraqi military as desperate Yazidi civilians flee ISIS fighters.

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.

General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

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.

As several studies are showing now, whole civilian barrio communities were razed by the hi - tech military invasion, displacing tens of thousands and killing many more than the 300 the U.S. government admits.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

One claims to seek only bad guys and kills innocents by accident, the other targets civilians only and I am not sure which side does the largest damage as a percentage of population.

One of the most miserable of them, Liberia, goes back to the 1840s (Haiti to the 1790s): its cry for help was voiced by a desperate Liberian, when three rival bands of heavily armed savages were engaged in slaughtering (and in some cases eating) civilians as well as each other.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Fifth of all, as long as parents aren't outright abusing their children, most liberals (again, by which I mean liberal civilians) don't care how they choose to punish them.

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.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,481 and 924 died in non-combat, 97,172 — 106,047 Iraqi civilians killed as of 8/10/2010 mostly by Sunni and Shiite suicide bombers - And Islam is a peaceful religion????

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.

«More veterans are coming back from war and getting back to work in the civilian job force, thanks to efforts by both employers and the government, as well as the improving economy.»

The movement already has its heroes, such as the civilian costing expert in the Defense Department who was almost cashiered by the bureaucracy before he made himself heard.

I insist that the Church would not condemn guerrilla action taken to free concentration camp inmates facing Nazi gas chambers, or the use of force by a civilian to stop killings such as those that took place at Columbine High School, or in a situation such as my example of a man killing infants in a nursery.

At least 20 unarmed men were executed by Syrian troops in Damascus, according to opposition activists, as the government said Monday that the country's chemical weapons were secure and would never be used against civilians.

Generally speaking, in a genuine military conflict between nations, it is not considered a war crime to target a military installation that is used by «combatants» in a conflict (as opposed to civilians or hospitals for the wounded, for example).

He explained that, in an insurgent situation, «The civilian were caught between the devil and deep blue sea» at the heat of the crisis and as such, NSCDC is keying into the Operation Safe Corridor embarked upon by Nigerian Army in order to deradicalize the repentant Boko Haram terrorists.

Civilian Complaint Review Board Chairman Richard Emery is being sued by the CCRB's executive director, Mina Malik, who claims she has been retaliated against after complaining that he referred to her and another female attorney as «pu --- s.»

All civilians will be struggling for survival by learning the main patterns of military action and hiding from them as best they can.

The «hybrid war» in Ukraine can hardly be tackled effectively by a «civilian power» such as the EU.

This linked well to a later question which candidly asked Ms. Khar as to whether Pakistan's foreign policy was made by the civilian cabinet in Islamabad or by the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.

Around twice as many civilians as soldiers were killed by deliberate political violence in the 20th Century, and recent events in Darfur, Syria and Iraq, as well as the rise in terrorism since 2001, highlight the endurance of mass killing into the 21st Century.

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.

Some of the objectives of the training as highlighted by the organizers include; to enlighten participants on the legal framework for international human right laws and humanitarian principles, to improve the capacity of law enforcement agents in identification, protection issues in Nigerian human right context, to build the capacity of participants to appreciate their roles in protecting the rights of the civilians.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state attorney general as a temporary special prosecutor to over see cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

The warnings by NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch in a coalition of 47 organizations in June that the UN was not sufficiently prepared for the elections and lacks «adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians... and to avert election - related violence» (HRW 2011) were not acted upon.

DenDekker then turned Turner's own words against him, calling for the businessman to practice the «personal responsibility» that he preaches by removing the «insensitive and embarrassing ad» from the airwaves and apologizing to everyone who lost someone on 9/11 as well as to first responders and civilians who are still struggling to recover from the horrific memories of that fateful day.

G.K.C Reddy commented that «Operation Blue Star will go down in history as one of the biggest massacres of unarmed civilians by the organised military force of a nation.»