Sentences with phrase «from military history»

One of the strengths of Goodreads is that you can find fans of every type of book category from military history to paranormal romance to personal finance in our community of 70 million readers.

AeroVironment is one company making the move from a military history to a broader range of business clients.

Not exact matches

Without electricity from civilian power plants, the most advanced military in world history could be crippled.

In addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the market.

But history also shows that actual military action has been followed by underperformance from the energy sector relative to other sectors of the U.S. stock market and the S&P 500.

Editor's note: Most of the historical information in this blog is from the US Army Center of Military History, as are all of the paintings.

In a military context, that's in evidence in the histories of every leader from Napoleon through Winston Churchill to J.F.K.; for every Cuban Missile Crisis, there's a Bay of Pigs.

WASHINGTON — In a break with recent history, the U.S. military is weighing whether to withhold the Truman Carrier Strike Group from deploying to the Middle East, opting instead to keep the carrier in the Mediterranean and the European theater.

Building on our long history of mentoring young women from around the world, Notebook Mentoring has focused for the three consecutive year on pairing the daughters of military service members with a select group of Most Powerful Women in a special afternoon session.

In spite of his early and short - lived embrace of nationalist sentiment and language and the military games he played with household objects, he knew that history was elsewhere, away from Jerusalem and what it represented.

But again you are incorrect we see from history that Christianity was embraced by Kings, high - servants of kings, roman officials and military, other people of «great influence»

In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

But the history of missions ought to warn us away from military, colonial, and commercial metaphors.

In this program everyone had to choose a special topic for independent research in addition to the usual courses in political economics, international trade, European military history and that new science imported from America, «management.»

Rachel lived across the hall from me freshman year, and we bonded over shared histories of growing up on military bases and a love for reading.

If it had, Nigerians would have been saved the trauma of the most vicious strain of military rule, spanning 1984 to 1999, not discounting the diarchy from January 1992 to November 1993, during which the freest election in Nigerian history was annulled.

At the core of the book is the death of the commanding officer, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, but it isn't just a regimental history, and Harnden puts into perspective the tactical and operational decisions, and how the military effort frequently was disconnected from the wider political context.

«All options should be on the table,» including military intervention, if efforts to achieve sanctions fall short or if the sanctions are ineffective, said Phillips a history teacher from Broome County who spoke on the steps of the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston.

«From prosecuting debt collectors that took advantage of military personnel to securing the largest heroin bust in the Western New York history.

The hulking gray structure with jutting marquees is home to several displays honoring veterans and the area's military history from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Veterans of recent military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan often have a history of exposure to explosive forces from bombs, grenades and other devices, although relatively little is known about whether this injures the brain.

Authors compared the prevalence of ACEs among individuals with and without a history of military service using data from a behavioral risk surveillance system, along with telephone interviews, for an analytic sample of more than 60,000 people.

In addition to these familiar diseases, they also discuss how designer DNA drugs may help those suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease affecting individuals with a history of repeated head injury, including athletes, military personnel, and domestic abuse victims.

This year Lithuania celebrates... Trek to Trakai: About 17 miles from Vilnius is Trakai, dating to the 13th century and the home of three castles and a history of military endeavors.

«Snapshot in Time: 1967 -» 68» (19:15) discusses the history of the Vietnam War in the period dramatized in the film with comments from Stone, historians, and an assortment of military veterans.

From the Studio: From director Clint Eastwood comes «American Sniper,» starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

Based on a page from Ming Dynasty history, this action picture tells a story of loyalty, military strategies, and even incorporates a sub-plot of female empowerment.

Official Synopsis: From director Clint Eastwood comes American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

From its humble beginnings on the now - ancient Japanese MSX2 computer following a young, lone - wolf US soldier Solid Snake as he infiltrates the secret military base Outer Heaven, Metal Gear has blossomed into a empire of its own, its story spanning generations of supersoldiers and over a century of modern American history and politics across nearly two dozen games.

A lot of the more politically - minded viewers will already have opinions on the American military's methods in hunting down Osama Bin Laden and the rhetoric around Zero Dark Thirty, the first film from Kathryn Bigelow since she made history at the Academy Awards with The Hurt Locker, would imply it's a hostile one.

It could be argued that the ostensible neutrality actually shields 13 Hours from becoming the next hotly - contested political drama, a fate Eastwood's chronicling of the deadliest sniper in American history fell victim to last year — though shots of a topless (and completely ripped) John Krasinski, who plays experienced military man Jack Silva and the montages of substantially muscly men doing substantially muscly - man things like flipping over massive tires and knocking out pull - ups like it ain't no thang, does nothing but prop America up on a pedestal that the innocent Libyans pictured herein have nary a prayer of mounting themselves.

From director Clint Eastwood comes «American Sniper,» starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

In examining the phenomena of volunteering, history takes us back to 1755, where the first recorded term was used in as a verb, and was apparently composed from the noun «volunteer», applied in a military context (which is defined as «out of free will» [6]-RRB-.

In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.

Would expecting African - American students from the District of Columbia to master «English, mathematics, the sciences, ancient history, Negro history, military drill, physical education, music, drawing, domestic science, Latin, Spanish, French, and German» be considered «A very inappropriate standard that's way too high?»

With a long history of military service and simply unflappable talent off - road, this iconic model from Land Rover serves as the bones for myriad capability - focused vehicles.

As this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I have a feeling there will be keen interest in the life of military generals from that period — not that history buffs aren't always interested in the CW.

With a long - standing career in film, television, radio, and podcasting, Kevin is a seasoned world traveler, and has produced documentary programming and films ranging from historic aviation to military history.

According to BSA's history of cub scouting, he'd been an outdoorsman from his youth, and early in his military career while stationed in India «he discovered that his men did not know basic first aid or the elementary means of survival in the outdoors.

Military historian Maj. Charles R. Bowery Jr. explores the leadership exhibited by two of history's greatest generals in Lee ∧ Grant: Profiles in Leadership from the Battlefields of Virginia.

Explore African American history with the following list, which introduces students to the lives and events of notable individuals, many lesser known, whose contributions range from something as mundane as the invention of the potato chip to the medalworthy achievements of African Americans in the military service of their country and so much more.

He'd included everything: military maneuvers, scenes from Auschwitz, the history of the world in those days.

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