Sentences with phrase «military had taken»

A Christian charity has urged people to be praying for «peace and stability» in Zimbabwe as reports indicate the military has taken over key institutions in the...

In a war ravished modern state calling itself Rome, where the people and the military have taken to the streets, hero General Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes) is set to become the leader of the republic.

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In a series of tweets posted on Wednesday, Trump said that his government would not allow transgender people to serve «in any capacity,» a decision he said was taken on the advice of US generals and military experts.

Syrian state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying a number of air defense missiles had been fired but no foreign attack had taken place.

Meanwhile, the US has taken every step short of military strikes to stop North Korea, saying that the era of «strategic patience» had ended and that «all options,» including military strikes, were on the table for reeling back the rogue state.

My first two weeks in Sierra Leone, I had to call a military medical evacuation that cost over $ 80,000 to take care of a volunteer who was very ill.

Wells Fargo has declined to comment, though a spokesperson for the company told Fortune that the bank «is honored to serve the financial needs of military servicemembers and veterans, and we take very seriously our responsibilities under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.»

The US bomber flight comes amid a series of Chinese military exercises, including live - fire drills, near Taiwan that a government spokesman said were meant to send a message to Taipei that Beijing would take further steps if Taiwanese independence forces continue doing as they please.

Moon, who took office in May, has advocated engaging Pyongyang with dialogue and offered to hold rare military talks with the North to ease tensions after Kim's first successful ICBM test July 4.

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

If the borrower is creditworthy and has made payments for the past 24 months on time, or is on active military duty, no additional action is taken.

Friday's declaration said each side would cease propaganda broadcasts, hold regular military meetings, and take other measures to reduce tensions along the border and turn the DMZ into a «peace zone».

(It didn't help that in the interview Bannon scoffed at the idea that U.S. would ever take military action against North Korea.)

The military chiefs had said they needed time to study the issue and its effects on the readiness of the force before taking that step.

Female veterans are more likely to have children to take care of than male veterans, says James Schmeling, co-founder of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families, making it harder for them to find and hold down a job.

Compared with these military entrepreneurs, the great motivational speaker Tony Robbins has taken a more deliberate path to inspiring others.

Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that the military was investigating whether the two troops may have been killed by ground fire, either by American forces or Afghan commandos taking part in the raid, though it appeared to be accidental.

When asked what would happen to deployed transgender military personnel around the world, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was «something that the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work together on as implementation takes place.»

When asked whether there was «any military option the US can take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk,» Mattis responded, «Yes, there are, but I will not go into details.»

Tensions between PDVSA and foreign oil companies have steadily risen since Quevedo took charge in November and appointed military officers who had little or no oil industry experience to senior jobs.

Trump has sanctioned dozens of Venezuelan officials, including government ministers and military officers, since he took office — including the vice president, who was accused of involvement in international drug trafficking, and President Nicolas Maduro himself, whom the Trump administration has labeled a «dictator.»

UNICEF has taken a more serious approach to getting their followers involved on Snapchat by sharing images that raise awareness of the plight of 800,000 children who have been forced to leave their Nigerian homes because of ongoing conflict between Boko Haram and military forces.

According to Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Mnuchin has frequently opted for using military aircraft for his travel instead of taking commercial planes, which would come at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.

A former air - force officer and former director of production on the DOD's Joint Cruise Missile Project, Alducin knew what it took to build a good missile and provided the military with engineering specs («what the government doesn't have the resources to do»).

Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.

As for what he thinks of the situation in Afghanistan — now that the military has since taken over from the CIA's initial «insurgency» against the Taliban — Crumpton doesn't see much of a bright side:

The newspaper also reported that like other heroes, Morris had never talked much about his military service, «out of respect for the gravity of taking a human life.»

Gravity's Rainbow, which takes place in World War II's European theater and revolves around Nazi Germany's V - 2 missile program, is particularly rife with military - related themes and characters.

«Gravity's Rainbow, «which takes place in World War II Europe and revolves around Nazi Germany's V - 2 missile program, is rife with military - related themes and characters.

Chinese cities, for example, saw slight declines in their livability scores due to the ongoing territorial disputes taking place in the South China Sea, which has seen military escalation from several countries.

Mike Vetter, a former military brat, has taken his childhood dream of owning a Lamborghini Countach and turned it into a custom car - building enterprise.

This public apathy is underwritten by a social contract that has separated the American people from their military in a fundamentally destructive manner — one in which the public will do anything it wants for the military, «except take it seriously.»

«Fortunately the data that has been taken is commercial data, not military data... it's not classified information,» Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio.

Income - Driven Repayment Plans: While this method will eventually enable you to have your loans forgiven, it is one of the longest routes to take for military members.

If you live near Joint Base Elmedorf - Richardson, you've likely heard the sounds of the military base in action; the guns firing, the planes taking off everyday like clockwork, and the base - wide sound system relaying everything from alert messages to the national anthem.

One is that if that type of military action did take place, that the stock market would move smartly to the downside.

Like many Canadians we have been taken back by the current debate over the support our government provides, or better still does not provide, to our military and to our veterans.

Expectations for the West to take military action had been building since a suspected chemical - weapons attack killed civilians in Syria more than a week ago.

If you are currently serving on active duty, you are eligible to have the interest rate lowered to 6 % on all student loans taken out prior to your military service.

If you are currently serving on active - duty you are eligible to have the interest rate lowered to 6 % on all student loans taken out prior to your military service.

Contributing to the decreased supply is the Trump Administration's sanctions on OPEC countries boosting reliance on domestic oil supplies and a long - running economic crisis in Venezuela, where oil workers have been «resigning in droves» since their state oil company was taken over by a military leader.

If one takes a few minutes to really think about the medium that we accept as money today, fiat currencies made out of cotton fiber backed by nothing except militaries, murder, death, and threats of murder and death, then one should easily conclude that fiat currencies literally have no intrinsic worth.

I knew I had to have life balance to support my military husband, be able to take care of my children, and also keep my independence as a woman who can also financially contribute to the family.»

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.

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

To give themselves an incentive, they passed drastic domestic and military spending cuts that would take effect on January 1, 2013, if they couldn't reach on a more sensible program.

Nor is Bolton the only person in Washington who has proposed taking military action against North Korea.

Given that oil is down at the moment with the news out of Middle East, what would take oil to move materially to US$ 50 would be some supply outage coming out of this story, or a military conflict between Iranians and Saudis.

Airstrikes take place almost daily as part of ongoing campaigns such as the battle against the Islamic State, but focused initial missile strikes and military operations can have an abrupt impact on markets.

Take a look at the many charges against Evangelistic Christianity in the military — these events haven't been devoid of attempts to proselytize or really voluntary at all.