Sentences with phrase «little military power»

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While the attack did take out several military positions and research facilities linked to chemical weapons, it had little effect on degrading Assad's power to wage further war on rebel factions.

Little of the Hebrew Bible's critique of power (the power of kings and military heroes and alleged deities) found its way into Christian christological reflection, except in the thin tradition of the theologia crucis.

The hierarchy of power remained the U.S. embassy at the pinnacle, the Salvadoran military and economic elites a little below, and the civilian government looking good in U.S. papers but nearly powerless in practice.

Contemporary Germany is surrounded by friendly states and shows little signs of engaging with the threat of Russian power; it is also — as the British defence secretary Philip Hammond pointed out only yesterday — failing to pull its military weight within Europe, let alone overseas.

Johnson admits he has had as little luck selling his power law approach to firms on Wall Street as to traditionalists in the military.

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