Sentences with phrase «military campaign in»

Julius Caesar must have been paying attention because he was careful to summarize his military campaign in Gaul by stating: «I came, I saw, I conquered.»

Data analyst Raymond Serrato looked at posts from Myanmar citizens over the course of 2017, determining that there was a massive spike in hate - speech posts following an August military campaign in the country's western Rakhine state, home to the majority of the country's Rohingya.

Ed Miliband pledged yesterday not to play «party politics» with the military campaign in Afghanistan after making his first visit to the war - torn country.

The public remains split down the middle on the military campaign in Libya, as the scenario on the ground approaches stalemate.

«I think Jeremy Corbyn indicated in his speech that it's not just on the Labour side, it's also on the Tory side, and people with wide military experience, that the increased threat of terrorist attacks here must be a significant possibility given what is likely to take place, that Britain will be taking part in this military campaign in Syria.

With the military campaign in Afghanistan in the middle of its eleventh year, NATO has firmly moved from what is idealistically desirable to what is realistically achievable in the war - torn country.

But the anger came early, and it's still there» even after the remarkable success of our country's military campaign in Afghanistan.

Polls indicate that over 90 percent of Americans continue to support the military campaign in Afghanistan.

President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday discussed tensions with Iran and a Saudi - led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress.

Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

He left a note in that boat suggesting that the attacks were an act of retribution for US military campaigns in Muslim - dominated countries and that he viewed his brother as a martyr.

As for the British military campaigns in India, the corpses are beyond numbering.

This self proclaimed prophet organized around 65 military campaigns in the last 10 years of his life and personally led 27 of them.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize some of the unsung heroes of our ongoing military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq: the Military Working Dogs (MWDs).

The King was vulnerable to the demands of the barons because he needed their support, financial and otherwise, to pursue military campaigns in France.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump hailed the U.S. - led intervention in Syria as «perfectly executed,» adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.

The French official said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria «must stop,» saying it is threatening the broader U.S. - led military campaign against the Islamic State group.

Given the additional political scrutiny on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.

The north is well aware that even in the crude terms of oil and supplies, it almost certainly lacks the funds to pay for any kind of sustained military campaign, despite having one of the world's largest standing armies.

SpaceX competes for military launches with United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin (lmt), which was the sole provider for the Pentagon until Musk launched a campaign in Congress and the courts challenging what he called an unfair monopoly.

He dismissed the U.S. - backed military campaign against Islamic State in Syria as «only a few raids», and said a more comprehensive approach was needed.

In addition, such campaigns tend to sour the American people on any military engagement, even if necessary and low cost.

Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria's civil war will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground.

In another recruitment campaign, the U.S. Military proudly states, «together, we are Army Strong.»

You talk about «against leadership» and it's hard not to think about the presidential campaign, in which the winner bashed this department, a man who dodged military service himself, disparaged the service of one of our most honored veterans, Sen. McCain, and engaged in a flamewar with a Gold Star family.

The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

Don's achievements at IPT include: sponsorship of the «Personal Finance Guide for Military Families;» the national Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation (EIFFE) Prevention Program, in partnership with North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA); the Investor Education in Your Community ® program; the national MoneyTrack public television series; The Campaign for Wise and Safe Investing ® in partnership with the AARP Foundation, and «The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020.»

Now, in his role at Starbucks, he works on a range of veterans» efforts including the Military Family Store Program, military - focused benefits programs, partnerships with veteran service organizations and veteran advocacy and caMilitary Family Store Program, military - focused benefits programs, partnerships with veteran service organizations and veteran advocacy and camilitary - focused benefits programs, partnerships with veteran service organizations and veteran advocacy and campaigns.

A new report from the IFA shows more than 64,000 veterans, military spouses and wounded warriors have started careers in franchising, including 4,314 who have become veteran business owners, since 2011 through Operation Enduring Opportunity, a campaign of the IFA's VetFran Strategic Initiative.

Reuters reports that Turkish artillery fired into Syria's Afrin region on Friday in what Ankara said was the start of a military campaign against the -LSB-...]

This would likely be the case if Canada experienced high casualties or a major military defeat while the election campaign is in play.

But in the campaign to recapture the northern Iraq city of Tikrit, where Canada hasn't been directly involved, a key element in Iraq's ability to push back Islamic State extremists has been the battlefield effectiveness of Shia militias led by Iranian military officers.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

Another big controversy was his plan to offer 100 Bentleys to 100 Saudi pilots involved in the military campaign against Yemen.

The tortured topic of gays in the military is far from the «nonstarter» the late Bush re-election campaign, incredibly, assumed it to be.

When Mitt Romney was asked why none of his five sons ever served in the military (campaign forum in Iowa) his response:

Every one of the listed regions was taken, within the space of a hundred years, from Christian control by violence, in the course of military campaigns deliberately designed to expand Muslim territory at the expense of Islam's neighbours.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

Congregational disagreements in response to the denominational stance on the military campaign have also been reported in some Mennonite churches (although there have also been reports of newcomers who have begun attending precisely because of the peace position).

Of course, religious pacifists recognize that it is not enough to point out that the massive military campaign currently under way will not work, and in fact will do more harm than good.

1991 A US - led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February.

Perhaps the Allies didn't have the resources to both liberate prisoner's behind enemy lines and at the same time run the largest military campaign ever in the history of the world.

Taliban spokesmen have said that the brutal attacks — which target innocent civilians — are revenge for military offensive campaigns against militants in the country...

In the primary history, he is mentioned as a 100 percent Israelite patriot, a prophet who predicted and encouraged the military campaigns by which Jeroboam II recovered much of the lost territory of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 14:25).

In a series of military campaigns, Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon and released the Jewish exiles to return and rebuild Jerusalem.

The danger was the popular understanding that the Messiah would free Israel and usher in the age of peace by Davidic methods, that is, by a victorious military campaign.

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

In 1980, Reagan made it a point to show that he was anything but eager to launch military campaigns.

This change is most obvious in our extended military campaign to form a state and expand it at the expense of Palestinians.