Sentences with phrase «losing war effort»

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

Not exact matches

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The Army hopes the effort will make it possible to regenerate arms and legs lost by soldiers in war.

It makes for an interesting companion to Christopher Nolan's summer hit, showing the desperation on the other side of the conflict and the belief that, should the forces fall, the war effort would be all but lost.

Will the efforts of Katniss, Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), Finnick (Sam Claflin) and the rest of crew of rebels have what it takes to finish the revolution or will all be lost within the war?

He has curated a wide range of digital content - videos, audios, posters, and what Pappas calls «long - lost ephemera» — about topics such as recruiting women to join the war effort (Recruiting Rosie) or PR efforts to «sell» the war to the American public (Why We Fight).

Dark Horse may be losing the license for Star Wars comics at the end of this year, but publisher Mike Richardson promised they were going to give it their best effort right till the end, and it looks like that's what they are doing: Lucasfilm has announced that the final arc of Darth Maul's Clone Wars story will be... [Read more...]

And that after his death, with the end of World War II and the dawn of the 1950s, Wonder Woman lost her superpowers and, like so many women who had worked in the war effort, was returned to domestic liWar II and the dawn of the 1950s, Wonder Woman lost her superpowers and, like so many women who had worked in the war effort, was returned to domestic liwar effort, was returned to domestic life.

We are already paying a regressive carbon tax of a sort through the Iraq War, with billions being diverted from community needs and thousands of lives lost in the effort to control Iraq's oil resources.