Sentences with phrase «many air raids»

The Russian air raids, launched ostensibly to target Islamic State, have mostly hit other, foreign - backed rebel groups, the United States says.

Russia and the Syrian regime have apparently responded with massive air raids since Filipov was killed.

The Houthis have stepped up ballistic missile attacks on the kingdom in what it says is retaliation for the air raids.

As the suicidal pilots reached their target, they began an attack that would supersede any air raid in history.

For the second day, barbaric air raids continue on #Douma city, more than 50 air strikes and heavy artillery shelling targeted the city since this morning @syriacivildefe teams work urgently to respond to the injured and evacuate them from the devastated areas.

Do the air raid sirens really make much difference?

The sweep and urgency of the statements from both sides of the Atlantic called to mind a computer - age version of a Cold War air raid drill, but asking citizens to upgrade their passwords rather than duck and cover.

A girl's parents died in an air raid.

When one of the Nazis, hit by a falling beam during an air raid, was listed as killed, again there was applause.

If the Israelis suffer casualties and then stage an air raid, bring in the old eye - for - an - eye bit.

They have not been issuing gas masks and practising air raid drills, but from the hysteria of some articles, you would think that extra first - aiders should be trained.

He took along his camera for the occasion and had taken pictures of the children just a few hundred yards from the house when they heard the air raid sirens begin to sound.

It is easy for a cathedral to forgive, for a provost who has not lost a child in the air raid.

When your team becomes more philosophically extreme than the air raid master himself, there's probably at least some necessity to it.

We'll see if the Cougs can keep it up, but at least this proves that S&P + isn't specifically formulated to underestimate orthodox air raid teams, huh?

They're 4 - 0 heading into conference play with a neutral - siter against Air Raid kin Texas A&M still to go.

Coordinator Matt Mumme, meanwhile, is the scraggly - haired son of scraggly - haired air raid inventor Hal.

Those numbers could explode in new coach Dana Holgorsen's Air Raid offense.

A guy who has played in two Air Raid systems, couldn't beat out Pat Mahomes for the starting job, and comes from the same school as Jared Goff (who had a disastrous rookie season).

Scheme (e.g. triple - option or return to Air Raid) and an out - of - the - box approach to recruiting are some ideas I've come up with, but I'm not sure there's a SABR type way to evaluate high school football talent to exploit inefficiencies in that kind of player market.

In two years starting, he averages 8.5 YPA which indicates he's pretty aggressive going downfield (USC is one of the few pro-style offenses left in CFB that doesn't inflate QB stats with air raid concepts).

Based on just that game, you have to take his productions with the same grain of salt you take QB and WRs coming out of an air raid offense.

It also helps that of the coaches in the Mike Leach air raid tree, Holgorsen has embraced the run more than others.

Some game's he will look like the future of the position (heard that before), other game's he will look like a college air raid QB with a big arm that cant transition to a pro style offense....

But Lubbock would love him no less were his aquamarine eyes brown and his countenance more Giametti than Gosling; he reminds them of the fun they had when he ran the air raid offense under Mike Leach.

But the analogy is never more apt than when it comes to Kevin Sumlin's version of the Air Raid, run by the most electrifying player in college football, taking on a Nick Saban defense.

«And yes, it is absolutely possible to have a spread / air raid offense that can also line up under center and get a yard or less up the middle when it needs it.»

The Chiefs traded up to draft the big arm kid from an Air Raid offense who could eventually be the starter but needed a year or two of transition.

That offense was still a bit of a way off from an air raid

Mike Leach is pretty much the best air raid coach ever, and even he's seemed to peak at like 8 - 9 wins with blowout losses against every half decent defense his team faces

The air raid is built on avoiding negative plays, getting the ball out of the QB's hands quickly, and cranking out efficient gains until defenses take risks.

It's doable, obviously — no air raid coach has won a national title, after all — but for coaches with harder jobs, being able to define the game is awfully appealing.

In replacing two air raid coaches (first Mumme, then Guy Morriss) at Kentucky, Rich Brooks won nine games in three years before building traction.

Though technically not a branch on the air raid tree, Baldwin's EWU teams were prolific and successful.

Though air raid teams can play decent defense, that was never the case for Dykes.

The effects of the air raid offense are obvious.

Within a year, UK head coach Hal Mumme and coordinator Mike Leach's air raid would begin revolutionizing the Big 12.

From a continuity standpoint, Cal moving from the air raid to EWU's pass - first offense made sense.

The most famous moment happened in 2008, when Michael Crabtree's last - minute touchdown knocked off Texas and gave air raid innovator Mike Leach his signature win.

There's no good way to predict how a quarterback is going to do when he moves from the air raid to a pro-style offense.

From the variants of the air raid and the spread - to - run attack to the pistol and the various tweaks of the pro-style offense, college coaches have gotten very good at putting their players in position to succeed.

So why the air raid?

Webb can sit for a year or two behind Smith, bulk up, and shed some of the air raid play style qualities he possesses.

When a siren goes off midday in Ohakune — a long, keening wail of an old school air raid siren, the kind you hear in films about the Battle of Britain, to be exact — I walk into a hotel and ask a clerk if that's something I should be worried about.

Rather than lining up in close quarters in three - point stances with a hand on the ground, Air Raid linemen began each play basically standing up, ready to pass block.

Washington State coach Mike Leach, and his fellow Air Raid guru Hal Mumme, also experimented with spacing along the offensive line.

A battle between a Bob Stoops team (one that is, thanks to the addition of offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, more tied to the air raid offense than those in recent years) and a Holgorsen team was guaranteed to be entertaining.

This could end up the best defense in the history of air raid teams.

He would've been an above - average quarterback at worst, one who would've scored many touchdowns for Kevin Sumlin's air raid on SEC defenses.

The air raid offense doesn't typically turn off and Pitt's defensive scheme invites pass happy teams to go nuts when its CBs aren't up to the task.