Sentences with phrase «many land mines»

I've stepped on a lot of land mines, and I can work on helping you avoid them.

In a sign of Cambodia's increasing importance in Southeast Asia, the Trump administration aimed to cut U.S. State Department funding of $ 2 million for land mine clearance — and then reinstated it after an outcry.

I have to generalize in a world that is already full of gender based land mines, but I feel qualified to do it in this instance.

And there are all kinds of potential land mines along the way, which is perhaps why Twitter is taking such a cautious approach with Moments.

Instead of a second chance, probation ends up being a land mine, with a random misstep bringing consequences greater than the crime.»

What it tells you is that in every stage, there are predictable problems, and if I could tell you where the land mines are in advance, and you can know where they are, you can go through this thing with the least amount of danger possible, and you can get through it the fastest, because you know where to go.

He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II, a service that had him defusing land mines and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

It can be riddled with financial land mines.

It's worked, even after stepping on some land mines here and there.

Aki Ra's strange, lifelong relationship with land mines.

But our base case is that the U.S. and China avoid these land mines in the short term, and try to use President Trump's upcoming visit to emphasize cooperation.

UPDATED for 2015 - This book reveals the potential land mines and pitfalls of active investing and educates readers on the benefits of passive investing with index funds.

If you can avoid stepping on financial land mines, you will be able to reach financial independence more easily.

They can also help qualify opportunities and help their employers avoid the land mines scattered around local markets.

Iraqi civilians killed as of 05/10/2013 /, 113,249 - 123,978 mostly due to suicide bombers, land mines and bombs of various types, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Social media became a land mine of twisted morals, ignorant comments and hate speech by people I know.

However, how that works itself out theologically and in real time does become quite a land mine, doesn't it?

Since hundreds of land mines still litter the forest on the side of the main road into Osijek, authorities worked quickly to pick up the refugees on route.

Sometimes the criticism can be hateful and mean - spirited, as if these women are stealing the Bible or surrounding churches with land mines and barbed wire.

102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due to suicide bombers, land mines and bombs of various types, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

We should encourage the UN to begin outlawing weapons like land mines, cluster bombs, and depleted - uranium ammunition that play particularly long - term havoc with civilian populations.

In September the USCC put out «voter education» material listing the responses of Clinton and Dole to a wide range of questions on subjects as various as abortion, environment, land mines, foreign aid, and labor relations.

Those who regard the Servant example as perhaps a little strained and antiquarian may prefer to think about other cases mentioned in the book: the shipping clerk who dispatches land mines, or the nurse who hands instruments to a doctor who plans to use them for an abortion.

- Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,480 and 928 in non combat roles as of 09/15/2011 /, 102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due to suicide bombers, land mines and bombs of various types, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Timeless small land mines of colorful plastic that will occupy your typically boisterous child for hours on end.

Given his litigiousness, it's no surprise that Antonious has earned the enmity of some executives in the golf industry who see him not as a creative genius but as a gadfly who likes to sprinkle the landscape with legal land mines.

If nothing else, this exercise points out where the favorites» most likely land mines could take shape and which areas of the bracket are most likely to blow up.

In the name of his country, Harmon descended into Asian jungles where he killed men, stood next to friends as they were killed, had his foot on a land mine that should have killed him but did not detonate.

The winner will face plenty of land mines in its attempt to stay in front.

Besides Boise, the only land mine was Washington at the end of the regular season, and both games were at home.

Still, they rallied and avoided the land mine.

While much of the top 10 was stepping on land mines, James Franklin's squad was regrouping for a three - week stretch that will define their season.

Ohio State is the bracket land mine.

It might take two leaps to get Purdue back to respectability, especially with a schedule that features six teams from last year's F / + top 40, but barring land mines, Purdue appears to be on the right course.

I thought about whether I should even try to answer this question, as it's loaded with land mines.

What made me tear was the story of how these robots are sent into wor to search for land mines especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We can surely step on each other's land mines!

Affordable New York was lumped in this budget season's «big ugly,» Albany parlance for legislation that's a land mine of controversial issues.

NORTH GREENBUSH — A love story between Kaylee Dedrick and fellow Occupy Wall Street protester Robert Grodt ended in tragedy when Grodt was killed July 6 by a land mine in Syria where he volunteered as a medic for a Kurdish militia.

«It's definitely a case study of the land mines out there for male politicians who are trying to talk about this issue,» the consultant said.

Conservatives should be worried that Walker hasn't proven capable of navigating these land mines.

But Catholic leaders warn of a host of other serious «religious liberty» land mines that could force them to cut a range of services.

Researchers are putting their talents to use in Africa detecting land mines and other explosives.

This «O.P.E.,» as I call it, coming at the right time, can steer you clear of land mines you might otherwise run into.

This innovative land mine detector can find explosives that are not encased in metal by detecting the hydrogen atoms that comprise the devious war devices.

Two years ago Craig wandered into a seminar on land mines at a nuclear technology conference in Crete.

Twenty - six thousand people perish each year when they step on or drive over land mines, a third of them the right age to be clutching a doll in one's hand.

Because so many mines in recent years are made from plastics to avoid location by metal detectors, based on United Nations research it will take 1,100 years to clear the world's existing inventory of 110 million land mines buried in 70 countries.

The FIT - 5 (price tag: around $ 1,300) is a nine - pound (four - kilogram) red disk that resembles a land mine and is deployed like a grenade: A firefighter pulls its cord and tosses the disk into the area engulfed in flames; within seconds the FIT - 5 releases a wispy cloud of potassium carbonate, a flame retardant that suppresses combustion and disrupts fire at the molecular level.

A 17 - year - old kid who had stepped on a land mine in Kosovo had been treated by an orthopedic surgeon in the chief referral hospital in Pristina.