Sentences with phrase «by military men»

The attack, which was reportedly staged by some military men, was to protest the arrest of their colleague who attacked a taxi driver.

Mubarak was persuaded to step down on promises of fair treatment — gently pushed to leave power by military men who he considered to be friends as well as colleagues.

«Isn't it now necessary for the President to fulfill his promise of leading from the front and getting his Information Minister, Lai Mohammed to go and hold a press briefing in Sambisa forest unguarded by military men so as to show to Nigerians that indeed, they have defeated Boko Haram technically?»

They were assisted by the lawyers, the university men, the bankers, occasionally by organised representation from the rest of society, and by the military men.

Not exact matches

Yet before the holiday distractions take hold, donors use this time of the year to remember the sacrifices made by the men and women serving in the U.S. military, and to support causes that help them when they return home.

During large, multiunit exercises, the US military's snipers can be overshadowed by the men and machines roving the battlefield.

He drummed up interest for the $ 15 item by posting messages on Web bulletin boards that catered to his target customers, which include balding men, hardcore athletes, members of the military, and aspiring bohemians.

«I know that growth happens by overcoming challenges, and I believe I wouldn't have grown into the man I am today without my military training.»

The U.S. - led coalition in Iraq has come up with a plan to keep the peace in the war - torn country after the military defeat of ISIS: A «police presence in a box» manned by Iraqi police officers.

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

«Our men and women who were tasked to keep us safe in the aftermath of 9/11 — our military and our intelligence warriors — are heroes, not pawns in some liberal game being played by the ACLU and Senator Feinstein,» Pompeo said in a statement on Dec. 9, 2014.

Founded in 1993 by a British ad man named Nigel Oakes, it is, basically, a messaging and PR firm that's done work for governments, politicians, and militaries around the world.

I do admit that McCain is a very good man though and I would have trusted him to at least do the right things on most accounts except he tends to be a Neo-con which I think Amnerica has no place pushing Democracy (or anything for that matter) by military force.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

It begins with a call to the Imperial Princes, Ministers of State, and high officials, to give ear to the great purification by which «are purged and washed away all sins which have been committed by Imperial officials and attendants,» men or women, civil or military.

So does the sheer drama of military campaigns waged by hundreds of thousands of men and women with limited if ingenious technologies across three continents and five centuries.

It would require 17 - year - old men and women to choose one of four options: active military duty for two years, with educational benefits; six months of active duty followed by extended reserve obligations; one year of civilian service in a Peace Corps - type domestic project; or placement in a draft lottery for a period of six years.

It would seem that the small percentage of homosexual men in the military commit half of the sexual assaults while the heterosexual men commit, by percentage, far fewer.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

With a whole generation of out of work military men, they tended to convert by the sword, simply killing anyone who would not convert.

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

If homosexuals were allowed to serve in the military and occupy the same quarters, how does a commanding officer respond to the charge that, by allowing homosexuals to room together, he is discriminating against heterosexuals if he denies them as unmarried men and women the similar right of sharing the same quarters?

They were astute in diplomacy and were able administrators who created an efficient military and civilian organization by training men and putting them in the right positions with authority and responsibility.

But is the burden not lightened, emotionally and even in some cases economically, by the fact that every man in the country» again, except for the extremely orthodox, whose winning of a special exemption from military duty for their own children has done little to endear them to their countrymen» is required to take up his share of it?

In his proclamation, Obama called all Americans to pray for, among other things, the men and women in the military, to ask God for «sustenance and guidance,» and to pray for those affected by natural disasters.

The refusal of Christians to render military service, then, was prompted by their desire to go beyond the simple local community and extend it to embrace all men.

Leaving military strategy behind, let us imagine a man caught in a cove surrounded by cliffs and with the tide rapidly rising.

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

The wise man who delivered his city by his wisdom when military might had failed: there was something that Ecclesiastes could and did respect.

The men of his military group had come together for worship, knowing that many of them would not be alive by the next sunset.

The new Cicis is also proud to salute the men and women of Fort Hood, and all U.S. military service - members, by offering a 10 percent discount every Monday.

After graduating in 2001, a second lieutenant heading into the military police, Halfaker found there was no better way to bond with her men than by outplaying guys from other units on the basketball court.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

And yet, when its young men were pressed into military service by Mussolini in World War II, they fought so fiercely that they became part of his shock troops.

I've seen videos, I've seen circumstances where men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly by the country they fought have for, and have been murdered by the country they fought for, on our land.

And the opportunity to have days off that he wanted without any one saying any thing, all he had to do was get his three ex military and himself from using their seniority for a job bid wanted by four other men with better social and political connection's.

Solving the lack of men in teaching is not about providing male role models — the concept that gets trotted out endlessly by the «Broken Britain» brigade — certainly not, at least, in the sense that Mr Gove implies with his idea of drafting in the military.

On behalf of the men and women in the military whose spirits have been lifted by the outpouring of letters and cards, I want to thank my readers, and invite you to once again participate in this patriotic effort.

The 1946 «National School Lunch Program» was actually a «national security» program implemented by President Truman to ensure a large pool of healthy young men for the U.S. military and national defense.

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LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon is thanking the men and women who've served their country in the military this Veterans Day, November 11, by offering them and their families free admission to its wildlife sanctuaries across the Commonwealth.

Perhaps most worryingly of all, many of the 20,000 - man portable missile launchers controlled by Qaddafi's military may now be missing.

For the past three days we have been indoors for fear of been attacked by the military just because of one man whose father is our traditional ruler.

Although the UAE's Prime Minister stated in an interview with the BBC that he «hopes (El Sissi) remains in the military, and that another person [runs] for the presidency», a clarification was soon issued by the official news agency saying that the «brotherly advice is that General al - Sissi should not run as a military man for the post of the presidency».

This particular part of the agenda is reportedly manned by one Captain Edmund Kojo Koda (rtd) who played a major role in the 1979 military Coup d?

The question arises because Crimean Peninsula is currently being occupied by thousands of well - armed men in uniforms that has no insignia who threaten to storm military installations and already occupied a few, as well as blocked many routes, etc..

Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians.

Three men executed by hanging and firing squad were convicted of involvement in killing senior military figure Mazen Faqha

The military, though allegedly suffered casualties as two of its men were killed in the operation, several hostages including men, women, children were rescued by the soldiers in the raid.