Sentences with phrase «for peacetime»

In fact, the cover of the first Power Wagon sales brochure touted it as «The Army truck the boys wrote home about... now redesigned for peacetime use.»

The result seemed to signal the resumption of «normal service» for peacetime government in Britain.

Heading into Veterans Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have authorized state pension credits for peacetime military service.

Other dimensions of culture it accepts within clear limits (economic production, commerce, the graphic arts, paying taxes for peacetime civil government).

Not exact matches

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

A man who refused to endorse killing civilians in the midst of a guerrilla war is now a mascot for people who joke about killing them in peacetime.

As for your myth that Muhammad killed poets: If by poets, you are referring to Uqba bin Abu Muayt and Al Nadr bin al - Harith, they were both executed for taking part in the Battle of Badr, not for being poets and not during peacetime.

It would cost the U.S. Treasury the price of three B - 2 Stealth Bombers for a fleet in which we already have twenty - one such things in peacetime.

At Dietrich Bonhoeffer's request, members of the Freiburg Circle prepared an extensive Protestant position paper for a planned post-war ecumenical meeting to discuss a peacetime order.

Before World War I and the restrictive legislation of the 1920s, passports were not usually required in peacetime for those crossing national borders.

A peacetime army may not (ignoring the Army Corp of Engineers for the moment).

For centuries, the UK has focused its efforts on peacetime procurement abroad, rather than domestic food production.

«And by framing this as «war footing,» as a counter-offensive to the assault by Washington on the entire economic structure of the state, will make it easier for him to sell the kind of things that a politician can't sell or perhaps get away with in «peacetime.

ALBANY — The sponsors of a bill that would have allowed veterans to buy pension credit for service during peacetime condemned Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday for his decision to veto the measure.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Support for Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years has fallen dramatically since David Cameron and Nick Clegg launched the government in the Downing Street rose garden last May, according to the latest Guardian / ICM poll.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg today launched a seven - page agreement which will form the basis of a five - year government programme for the first British peacetime coalition since the 1930s.

Science and technology have been responsible for over half of the growth of the U.S. economy since WWII, when the federal government first prioritized peacetime science mobilization.

Could trees and bushes have been to blame for the force of one of Europe's biggest peacetime explosions?

Several countries have budget deficits around 10 percent of national income or larger, and their governments must show their publics and the financial markets that they have a plan for dealing with these unprecedented peacetime imbalances.

After World War II, Menzel began the peacetime pursuit of breeding and training Canaans as guide dogs for the blind.

Directed by Britain's Simon Curtis with a «Masterpiece Theatre» sensibility for accurately reproducing an era in cars, clothes and home furnishings, Goodbye Christopher Robin sprints comfortably along from Milne's harrowing World War I service in the trenches through his difficult adjustment to peacetime, his sometimes fraught relations with Daphne and his retreat to the woods where the muses eventually whispered like the wind in the tree branches.

In return, the participating carriers are given preference in carrying commercial peacetime cargo and passenger traffic for DOD.

Heralded as the worst conflagration to assail a city in peacetime, the 1906 San Francisco fire was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people and the destruction of 522 city blocks, according to firefighter turned writer Dennis Smith in his new moment - by - moment chronicle of the fire, San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires.

Mao tse - tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one - quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth - century leader.

It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century.

All veterans (honorable discharge) living in Iowa qualify for a property tax exemption of $ 1,850 if they served during wartime or for a minimum of 18 months during peacetime.

181 days of consecutive service during peacetime (or less if discharged for a service connected disability)

Those eligible for VA mortgage financing fall into two categories: wartime and peacetime service.

The Official Veteran Home Loan website has a very detailed list of its rules for eligibility based on status, time served, and whether service was during peacetime or war, among others.

In peacetime, Bouviers burnished their résumé as European police K - 9s and guide dogs for the blind.

In 1923 what has been called the U.S. Navy's greatest peacetime disaster, the Honda Point Disaster, occurred off the Point when seven 4 — stacker destroyers mistook Point Arguello for Point Conception and sank, with 22 sailors lost.

Dharma puts greater emphasis on peacetime interactions, especially for the va...

Dharma puts greater emphasis on peacetime interactions, especially for the varied nations of India and those colonial powers who want to make their fortune in Asia.

But today's carbon - depleted and environmentally damaged world is very different than the post World War II environment that found new peacetime uses for chemicals.

For example, since showing lights at night was generally not a good idea because of the submarine threat, maybe the measurements were biased more to daytime measurements, where the surface was generally warmer due to solar heating, than to average temperatures over the whole day which would be more typical of peacetime.

A new large supply source instantly changes the flexibility limitations for military conflict for both superpowers as well as their peacetime economics of course.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Supervised and trained 3 warehouse workers successfully in all warehouse functions: acquisition, maintenance, storage, and shipment of equipment and systems required to support emergency response operations; contingency support services; and preparation of the units for contingency operations in wartime and peacetime.

They are also tasked in providing care for prisoners at war including their transportation and security; responsible enforcing and regulating various military laws present at wartime and peacetime.

Experienced Logistics coordinator recognized for military supply and logistics support that delivered mission - critical equipment, personnel and supplies to global warfront and peacetime missions.

«If you've served 90 days consecutive of active duty service during wartime or 181 days of active duty service during peacetime, or if you've got more than six years of service in the National Guard and Reserves or you are the spouse of a service member who's died in the line of duty or as a result of a service - connected disability, you may be eligible for these benefits,» Reeves says.

Members of the military are eligible for a VA loan guaranty after they have actively served for 90 days during wartime or 180 days during peacetime.