Sentences with phrase «by soldiers on»

The haunting presence and form of this work is echoed in «Monumento a tre militari» (Monument to three soldiers)(1998) on display here: picnic baskets, characteristic of those used by soldiers on duty, are stacked on top of one another and piled high creating a precarious, towering sculpture.

«Dunkirk» captures not only the terrors faced by the soldiers on the beaches, but also a sense of the national reckoning the retreat forced on the British people.

It includes the raw observation of casualties by soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan, but the many unknowns surrounding those reports have left researchers puzzled about how to interpret them.

The torrents of condemnation followed a motion on urgent public importance moved by a member from Benue State, Mr. Mark Terseer - Gbillah, to bring to the attention of the House, an earlier attack on Nakka by soldiers on April 19.

«Hounding of defenseless Journalists should be stopped forthwith, because not long ago, journalists were manhandled and their work tools destroyed by soldiers on «Operation Python Dance 11» in Umuahia, Abia State», the CLO chief said.

They were allegedly killed by soldiers on Wednesday morning while waiting for the arrival of Nnamdi Kanu.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, kogi state polytechnics chapter has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai to institute a high powered investigation into the alleged invasion and brutalization of students and staff of the institution by some soldiers on the order of the state government.

Some police personnel who were on guard duties at various points in the metropolis sited by the soldiers on their way to the regional police headquarters were also allegedly attacked by the angry military men.

Initial reports said Joseph was killed at a restricted area by soldiers on a raid, with his identity as a footballer only established after he had been shot.

Smoke was stilling rising from the wreckage hours afterwards, AFP journalists saw, though they were prohibited from taking videos or photos by soldiers on the perimeter, guns at the ready.

It was designed to be operated remotely, either from another military vehicle or by a soldier on foot with a hand - held remote control.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the best way to sum up the truce was said by a British soldier whose letter to the Carlisle Journal was published on January 5, 1915:

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

«Futurarmy soldiers will wait by their machines of war as these fantastic robot spies, called Owls, report on the location of enemy concentrations and installations.»

Over the weekend, soldiers from the two countries, joined by personnel from Australia and New Zealand, staged an assault on a beach on South Korea's southeastern coast.

Iraqi soldiers and security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters, backed by U.S. - led air strikes and support on the ground, already control Mosul's southern, eastern and northern flanks, and have advanced on those fronts for nearly two weeks.

Again, Chalifoux tried to break it to them gently by asking which soldier he was, but they simply answered him and didn't pick up on the hint.

The soldier, who has not been named, was hurt on Wednesday afternoon in an area used for tank training exercises by the Royal Armoured Corps.

It was a force of parade ground soldiers who were transported around by the U.S. Air Force to march down the main boulevards of the different national capitals on their national days and projected only pageantry.

«I don't know [the Ukrainian blog's] exact calculations, they just threw out the 100,000 number,» Tack said, adding that they basically figured Moscow would pack each rail cars to the brim with 72 soldiers, and that they multiplied the final number by 1.5 times on the assumption that the Kremlin was keeping the real number of rail cars secret.

Syrian President Bashar al - Assad (C) talks to soldiers during a visit to Jobar, northeast of Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA on January 1, 2015.

The Rochester, N.Y. company, best known for its line of head - mounted video eyewear favored by soldiers and gamers (as well as a 2009 cameo on The Oprah Winfrey Show), launched its own smart glasses at the end of 2013.

Two IDF soldiers were killed on January 28 in a retaliatory attack by Hezbollah, but Iranian leaders have hinted Tehran may still attack Israel over the general's death.

Moreover, the appropriation will ensure that the microloan program, recently praised by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, will soldier on.

German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in what prosecutors believe was a plan by a military officer and a student, both in custody, to carry out an «extremist» attack and blame it on migrants.

«Dyslexia doesn't necessarily make people more open,» Gladwell admits at one point, before soldiering on: «But the most tantalizing possibility raised by the disorder is that it might make it a little bit easier to be disagreeable.»

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

At times, the skills emphasized and taught by the Army might seem contradictory: On the one hand, the Army wants its soldiers to follow orders and take directions, while on the other, soldiers must analyze and react to situations with intelligence and determinatioOn the one hand, the Army wants its soldiers to follow orders and take directions, while on the other, soldiers must analyze and react to situations with intelligence and determinatioon the other, soldiers must analyze and react to situations with intelligence and determination.

Indeed, I suggested Microsoft might kill the whole bad idea and refrain from releasing the device altogether, but sure enough the company soldiered on, only to see the Pro become a big flop, mainly because it delivered none of what people wanted in a tablet — lightness, low price and good battery life, all of which were ironically established by Apple.

She recalls how she had to return to the States alone without her unit, and how this early arrival, combined with her rehab, meant that she missed out on the traditional homecoming enjoyed by returning soldiers.

Justice Douglas noted that individual privacy concerns were protected by a series of express Constitutional provisions, like the Third Amendment's prohibition on quartering soldiers during peacetime, the Fourth Amendment's right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure, and the Fifth Amendment's right against self - incrimination.

7th Infantry Division Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division board CH - 47 Chinook helicopters piloted by 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade aviators during an air assault attack as part of the inaugural I Corps exercise Courage Ready 18 - 01 hosted by U.S. Army Alaska on U.S. Army Garrison - Alaska training lands near Fort Greely, Alaska, April 25.

In April 2011, JPMC agreed to settle claims that the bank over-charged active or recently active military service members on their mortgages by paying $ 27 million in cash to approximately 6,000 military personnel, by lowering interest rates and fees in excess of that permitted by the Service Members Civil Relief Act («SCRA») and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 («HERA») on soldiers» home loans, and by improperly foreclosing upon homes owned by borrowers protected by SCRA and HERA.

Dave, these Jews are simply wearing the same phylacteries you've seen on T.V. dozens of times, worn by Israeli soldiers.

But the soldiers in Hamas who are putting their lives on the line to protect their mothers from being raped, their kids from being shot and their mosques from being destroyed are called terrorists by the media.

He had - or invented - the dream where he saw the Christian Cross in the sky and heard the words «By this sign you will conquer,» had his soldiers draw the cross on their shields, and won the last battle needed to become sole emperor (the empire had been divided into three parts to facilitate governing).

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

Further example: His bones were not broken by the Roman soldiers, when he hung on the cross.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Baghram Airfield in Afghanistan on Tuesday, spurred by reports that soldiers had burned a copy of the Quran at the base.

On the anniversary of Guy Fawkes» Day, when a Catholic plot to assassinate the Protestant King of England was disrupted, American soldiers would often mark the day by torching a straw pope.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

First, how the sandals were used by the Roman soldiers in battle, secondly, how we as Christians are to use them in spiritual battle, and finally, how we as Christians can put on this third piece of the armor.

On March 24, 1980, not long after he voiced a plea to soldiers to disobey killing orders that were contrary to God's commandments and their moral convictions, he was gunned down by a rightist assassin while saying mass in the chapel of the hospital where he lived.

well they get restrained by the same politicians and judges and policy manuals... the crooked politicians even put soldiers on trial for murder (what!).

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Perhaps most extraordinary is Plutarch's account of the great mathematician Archimedes, so taken up in a mathematical proof that he did not notice his city being taken by the Romans, and killed by a soldier when he insisted on finishing his proof before being taken to the Roman authorities.

Eleven days before Eamonn McCormick finally died, an 18 - year - old soldier called Keith Bryan from Bristol was shot dead by the IRA while on foot patrol in the Lower Falls area of Belfast.

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

In George McKenna's review of While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (December 2001), he neglects to lay the least bit of blame for the Civil War on the heightened sense of self «righteousness instilled in both the North and the South by their respective churcheOn: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (December 2001), he neglects to lay the least bit of blame for the Civil War on the heightened sense of self «righteousness instilled in both the North and the South by their respective churcheon the heightened sense of self «righteousness instilled in both the North and the South by their respective churches.

An altar frontal which was embroidered by severely injured World War One soldiers is to go on display at St. Paul's Cathedral.