Sentences with phrase «civilians during»

Mention facts and figure about the cases you solved, number of arrests, the reduction in the rate of crime and the social programs held to improve the well - being and safety of civilians during your tenure in police department.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».

After Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was forced to resign from his post after a video surfaced of him likening the agency's approach to the fossil fuel industry to the crucifixion of Turkish civilians during the Roman Empire, the Sierra Club hired him to become its Senior Campaign Representative for the «Beyond Coal» initiative.

Works includes are Jacques Callot's Les Grandes Misères de la guerre of 1633, a set of 18 etchings that presents the tragic fate of civilians during Europe's Thirty Years War (1618 — 49) and Goya's Los desastres de la guerra, 1810 to 1820.

In Allora & Calzadilla's video Raptor's Rapture (2012), installed in the Weinberg Bunker (which housed up to 10,000 civilians during war - time air raids), a musician, specializing in prehistoric instruments, tries to serenade a griffon vulture with a 35,000 - year - old flute made from the wing bone of that same species.

Food tours navigate visitors around Gettysburg sharing both delicious cuisine and anecdotes from the town's civilians during the battle.

Reading the novel gave me a clearer and deeper understanding of what happens to civilians during wartime.

Logline: Follows the story of an ex-Special Air Service soldier and his former regiment, known as the «Pilgrims, â $ as they evacuate civilians during a military coup in Sierra Leone.

English writer - director Paul Greengrass's unnervingly realistic recreation of the 1972 «Bloody Sunday» massacre of 13 unarmed Irish - Catholic civilians during a civil - rights demonstration on the riot - scarred streets of Derry, Northern Ireland, has been rightfully compared to Gillo Pontecorvo's classic THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965).

A few hundred volunteers received low to medium doses of LSD at Edgewood, compared to the amounts used recreationally by millions of young civilians during the same period.

The military has been accused of arbitrarily arresting thousands of civilians during the conflict, which has left at least 20,000 and made over 2.6 million homeless since 2009.

«That's why we're calling for the immediate implementation of a special prosecutor to review all cases of fatalities involving unarmed civilians during police encounters.»

He went on to talk about the role and types of ideology that encourage violence against civilians during conflict.

Captain Koda is notorious for leading the torturing and maiming of civilians during the AFRC / PNDC military government and was instrumental in the military Coup d'état in the late 1970s that ousted the then civilian government of Dr. Hilla Limann.

John Adams was the type of Christian a lot of Christians wouldn't understand (he was the defense attorney for the British soldiers who fired on civilians during the Boston Massacre.

The violence was gut - wrenching for an already - divided nation, but pales in comparison to the brutality of regular civilians during Civil War.

The bells symbolise American war trophies following the Balangiga massacre of troops and civilians during the Philippine - American War in 1901.

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.

During the six years I was in the Marine Corps, I learned a lot of lessons that have served me well in many aspects of civilian life; but they have served me best in my endeavor to be a successful entrepreneur.

Macron demanded the civilian population be given full access to humanitarian aid in Afrin during the Elysee meeting.

That works out to 80 civilian casualties a month under Obama and 360 a month during the Trump administration.

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 a statement to news site The Verge on Monday, the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which is tasked with keeping the public safe during launches, said that the shutdown has caused it to remove «key members of the civilian workforce» from its efforts.

He then ruthlessly ruled for eight years, during which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred.

During the conflict, the Assad regime has been accused of committing atrocities against civilians.

Dr. Luke Blackburn was a respected medical doctor and philanthropist until he allegedly attempted to create a yellow fever outbreak targeting Northern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War.

Mary Edwards, who leads Accenture's work with federal civilian health agencies, explained to MobiHealthNews during an interview that this type of data increasingly is collected by consumer devices, like Fitbits, and is rarely a part of a clinical or claims record.

Even if interception became influential only during Protective Edge, it was perceived as a game changer during Pillar of Defense and boosted civilian morale during both operations.

During the question - and - answer session, a shareholder asked Moynihan how much business the bank was giving up because of its decision to stop lending to manufacturers of military - style guns sold for civilian use.

The death occurred during a bloody day in Afghanistan in which 31 people, including 10 journalists, were killed in twin bombings targeting civilians in Kabul, and a suicide bombing targeted a military convoy in Kandahar province, wounding eight Romanian service members and killing numerous children who were nearby, coalition military officials said.

While Tutsis were mainly the victims of the genocide, their rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Force, committed its own crimes during its campaign to overthrow the Hutu government in 1994, while after 1994 the Tutsi government's army, according to reports of the U.N. and human - rights groups, massacred thousands of Hutu civilians in exile in the DRC.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

(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?)

Between some 245,000 to 415,000 South Korean civilian deaths were also suggested, and the total civilian casualties during the war were estimated as 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 (most sources estimate some 2,000,000 casualties).»

During the Second World War, the Third Reich was opposed by local partisans and ad hoc military and civilian organizations.

He confesses that during World War II, Americans grieved little over the killing of German or Japanese civilians by Allied firebombs and nuclear detonations.

A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.

Throughout the developing world, police officers continue to do what they did during colonial times: intimidate civilians, suppress riots, and beat down political rivals.

During a second attack which struck overnight, five suicide belt - wearing terrorists used a car to ram civilians in the seaside town of Cambrils.

«Everyone knows that civilians will come in harm's way during a conflict.

A major turning point was Iraq war, during which the group al Qaeda in Iraq staged attacks that killed huge numbers of civilians, tarnishing the al Qaeda brand in eyes of Muslims who had expressed at least tacit support for the organization.

[If you question their sincerity, consider this: One of the authors, Shane Claiborne, actually went to Baghdad during the 2003 «shock and awe» bombing campaign to hang out with civilians.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

During the ninth stage of the Tour while riders were heading to Bagnères - de-Bigorre, one civilian decided it was best to drop his...

Sharing some thoughts on post-election lawlessness in Ghana after the 2016 elections with the Daily Graphic yesterday, Dr Nyaho - Tamakloe expressed dismay that «none of these civilians was apprehended during the assault, even though the compound is guarded.

An estimated ten million soldiers died during the First World War, in addition to one million direct civilian deaths and a further six million deaths from famine and disease, the motion notes.

During today's visit the trio will meet British troops and civilian staff and visit a British - funded development project.

«There must be wider and fuller access for the UN and international aid agencies to civilians in the «no fire zone», during the screening process, and in the IDP camps.»

@DrunkenSanta9035768 - I know there were a lot of questions about what actions by «contractors» were actually prosecuteable during the Iraq occupation, because of the lack of a civilian government and lack of civilian jurisdiction for the USA government.

NATO, for example, informally expanded its mandate during the Libya intervention in 2011 from the protection of civilians to the removal of Colonel Gaddafi.