Sentences with phrase «military leader who»

You may know him as the military leader who saw the United States through operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

He works for a bigger bad (I'll let you discover who that is on your own) and also has a peer / rival in General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson), a tyrannical, barking military leader who'd be a Third Reich shoe - in in our galaxy.

A top military leader who was working 16 - hour days in a time of crisis wanted to keep a journal.

Notably, military leaders who were handpicked by Wu took control of large parts of the Korean peninsula.

Real life military leaders who hold my life in their hands at times, yeah, the idea of them operating via the christian military plan instead of the US military plan scares the crap out of me.

«You're fighting in front of everyone, from your friends to the military leaders who are going to shape your career.

To honor its current veteran franchisees and operators, and in light of «Mission: Readiness,» a nonprofit group consisting of 300 of the nation's retired military leaders who want to tackle junk food vending, HUMAN Healthy Vending is now offering discounted machine pricing to current members of the US Military (any branch) as well as those veterans who have received an honorable discharge from a branch of the US Military and would like to start a healthy vending business.

EVs good on emissions, cost and national security For business and military leaders who met yesterday at the Hudson Institute, the real savings from EVs come at the national level.

And numerous active and retired military leaders who have served on the front lines note that the military's biofuel efforts are essential to improving national security, protecting troops and stimulating our economy - most recently in pieces such as this one from a retired Air Force general and this one from a retired Navy SEAL.

Moreover, moving forward with such a regressive policy goes against the president's own military leaders who have affirmed their support for transgender service members in their ranks.

Not exact matches

Business Insider put together a list of the most ruthless leaders of all time featuring men and women who employed merciless tactics to achieve their political and military agendas.

Canadian and Malaysian officials met briefly with Pakistan's deposed leader, Nawaz Sharif who has been charged by the new military government with treason - a charge which could result in life in prison or death.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

Myanmar's government leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with United Nations Security Council envoys on Monday over the plight of nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown, pledging to investigate any credible accusations of abuse, said diplomats who attended the meeting.

D0C Demetrius was a military leader with blood on his hands who became king of Macedonia.

So, too, the capitalist or the colonialist who exploits and oppresses his fellow men, and the government leader who uses police or military violence, are to be radically condemned.

The Byzantine emperors who first issued the edict to smash and destroy the icons (Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V, both of whom reigned in the eighth century) do remind one of Oliver Cromwell, for both sets of rulers were military leaders with a loyal army from the provinces; such figures often have a puritanical streak and tend, moreover, to command soldiers who themselves are suspicious of the decadent mores of the cities.

What if President Bush got his military generals together and said, «Ok, who are their leaders?»

Their religious leaders of the world who completely back the republican party that is responsible for the 850 billion a year military since Reagan days (trillions and trillions since) are now blaming Obama for it?

Menachem Begin (1913 — 92), a military and political leader who became prime minister of Israel, was in many ways the Labor Zionists» polar opposite.

Also, today's religious leaders bow to whatever flag happens ro be flying over their head, and actively recruit for and support militaries all over the world, sending even their own offspring to kill Christians living in othger lands whie they preach that «Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword».

Deborah — prophet, judge, national leader (Judges 4 - 5)[McKnight says, «if we ask what did women do, and we ask this question of Deborah, we learn that women could speak for God as a prophet, render decisions n a law court as a judge, exercise leadership over the entire spiritual - social Israel, and be a military commander who brought Israel to victory.»

The former Pilot and Military Leader, who later won two elections and became President at the start of the country's fourth Republic, was born on June 22, 1947.

The Chairman of the AFRC also charged at those who pretend not recognize what led to June 4, describing it as a justifiable intervention and an expression of rage against corruption and the rape of the country bysome political and military leaders.

According to Al - Sharq al - Awsat, the key officials involved in Iran's military assistance to Sadr are Ali Agha Mohammadi, an advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; Bagher Zolghadr, the assistant head of the IRGC; Ghasem Sulaymani, the commander of the Qods Corps; Murtada Rada'i, head of the IRGC intelligence service; and Hassan Kazimi Qummi, a former assistant head of the IRGC who was appointed Iranian charge d'affaires in Iraq.

Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham, who does not back bombing, slammed the leader's decision to write to every Labour MP last week saying he was opposed to military action.

The Labour leader, who had spent his entire career opposing British military interventions, was now seemingly incapable of leading his own party against one.

Ri Yong - guk, a defector from the North who served on a security detail for Kim Jong - il, wrote in a 2013 memoir that as many as six different layers of security guards protected the leader on trips to the countryside to inspect military units, plants or farms.

It also met resistance from the Armed Services Committee's Democratic Chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, who replaced Gillibrand's provision with a measure that would require review of prosecution decisions by more senior military leaders.

Sir Menzies - who stepped down as Lib Dem leader in October - will also conduct a review of the UK's military capacity for the party.

Another Labour frontbencher who backs intervention said: «We could have called a vote at today's meeting forcing the leader to support military action because we had the numbers, but we didn't because he told us it was a process and we would be meeting again on Monday.

For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).

Yahya Jammeh, who lost a December 1 presidential vote to opposition leader Adama Barrow, is refusing to step down, despite international condemnation and a threat of a military intervention by West African countries to enforce his election defeat.

Next to Wuhayshi and Raymi, the group's military commander, in the same video sat the new deputy leader, Said Ali al - Shihri, a Saudi national who was released from the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in November 2007.

He had written, «They would rather have a core northern military dictator in power than a southern leader or President.And they are prepared to kill anyone, no matter how highly placed, who stands in their way or who attempts to oppose or stop them.»

Such opposition is mainly from the North whose sons were the military leaders of Nigeria who ruled and ruined post-1966 Nigeria.

He lamented that majority of the current political party leaders grew or learn politics under the military arrangement, saying that those who knew what the military did have left the shore of political leadership.

The announcement from Gillibrand, a Senate leader on confronting sexual harassment in the military and on college campuses, dramatically ratchet up the pressure on Franken, a Democrat who faces accusations of unwanted advances or improper touching from six different women.

One of the suspects who's said to bé the ring leader, Adebayo Olanrewaju, said he got the military accoutrements from «a friend.»

Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu's brother, Emmanuel, reveals who allegedly kidnapped, sold IPOB leader to military

Sources close to Mr Corbyn said Mr Dugher, who had called on the leader not to sack those who like him had supported military action in Syria, had been sacked for «disloyalty and incompetence».

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

The military declared victory over the group, but they quickly reorganized under a new leader, Abu bakar Shekau, who steered the group in a more radical - militarist direction.

The settlement was officially founded on November 25, 1867, named in honor of Coronel Jos Valentn de Olavarra who was an Argentine military leader.

Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al - Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, as well as Yemen's Houthi rebels, and the entire clerical and military leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This is much to the dismay of the SVR (Russia's intelligence service), represented by a trio of ruthless men: two military leaders (Jeremy Irons and Ciaran Hinds) and the deputy director of the SVR, Ivan Egorov (Matthias Schoenaerts), who happens to be Dominika's uncle.

There's also Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, the conceited buffoon who is the dictator's deputy; the great Simon Russell Beale as chief of Soviet security and known rapist / murderer Lavrentiy Beria; Python's own Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov, whose wife was imprisoned for treason with his permission; and the sidesplitting Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov, the leader of Russia's military.

Prior to Crazy Heart, Jeff was seen in the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats, playing Bill Django, a free - spirited military intelligence officer, who is the leader of a secret group of warriors in the arWho Stare at Goats, playing Bill Django, a free - spirited military intelligence officer, who is the leader of a secret group of warriors in the arwho is the leader of a secret group of warriors in the army.

Also in the mix are the bounty hunter who abducted and trained Quill (Michael Rooker); the police official who's on the hunt for this ragtag team (an underused John C. Reilly); and the military leader Nova Prime (an elegant Glenn Close).

According to The Playlist, which reviewed the film's script in 2008, «Deep Tiki» — as it came to be known — was set in Hawaii and centered on «military contractor Brian Gilgrest (Ben Stiller) who has to navigate and juggle the politics of the bosses, the supernatural myths of Hawaii's spiritual leaders, the emotions for his almost - ex-wife (not cast?