Sentences with phrase «military incursions»

You can say oil is cheap until you account for the trillion or more dollars we've spent already in military incursions into the Middle East in the last decade to secure that oil.

Even as intractable multi-year conflicts such as that waging in Syria come before the Council, it has found itself unable to act on account of China and Russia's age - old protection of state sovereignty along with fears that the catastrophic failures of military incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan will be repeated.

With one sad exception (the military incursion in Panama), it has always been defending against explicit threats from entities whose stated goal was world domination.

«With the Military incursion into governance, Islamists of northern Nigeria worked through the various Muslim Military Dictators to progressively compromise the secularity of the Nigerian State culminating in the 1999 Constitution which is a Military imposition on the country.

It wants an extension of the asset freeze against Russians who are responsible for the military incursion into Ukraine, as well as travel bans and asset freezes against Russians who have «misappropriated» funds from Ukraine.

Mock occupation by activists in military uniforms mimics Russia's military incursion into east Ukraine

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Although there have been several recent cross-border attacks and incursions, the Eurasia Group team does not see a broader military conflict in 2017 given that both countries» prime ministers are focused on domestic issues.

Yakassai also traced the menace of corruption to the military saying their incursion into politics in 1966 and 1983 only helped to teach politicians how to steal.

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

The military did not deny the reported withdrawal of troops from Dapchi before the «terrorists» incursion, claiming instead that the withdrawn troops were to have been replaced by police officers, an arrangement the police authorities immediately claimed they were unaware of.

Military» incursion has both merits and demerits.

When a new and potentially planet - killing contagion is discovered, Moon Shadow, an isolated resort town located in Alaska's primitive and rugged interior, becomes the focus of a military - style incursion.

Since Nablus in the heart of Palestine and a center of resistance, nighttime incursions by the Israeli military are not uncommon.

With ships assigned to them a military outpost is naturally intended to defend the nearby area, yet on most occasions it failed to react to incursions or was far too late, leaving me to once again hurtle across the galaxy to try to save the day.

His artistic incursions in the 1970s, which at the time were seen as an authentic system of counter-information in Brazil, have become legendary: messages criticising the military dictatorship, for example, were printed in white on empty Coca - Cola bottles, which were then filled and offered for sale.