Sentences with phrase «military official who»

The larger problem with that is the treatment of the women in this film, making one of their two female characters a high ranked military official who spends most of the time feeling insecure and being derided by other men, including those who were supposed to be her peers.

A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, «We lost four men, including the general (Jacob Kodji)» and a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram.

Not exact matches

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

The closing ceremony will be attended by a senior government official who was formerly in charge of the North's military intelligence bureau.

In February of last year, Trump described the removal of authorized immigration by his administration as «a military operation,» a comment that contrasted with other officials in his administration, who stressed that deportations would not be pursued en masse or in the style of a military operation.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

«I think that in the Syrian theater, Russia is unlikely to interfere with the coming US operation or take military steps to prevent it or in retribution, despite their comments,» Cliff Kupchan, a former US State Department official who is now chairman of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider.

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.»

The administration official, who wasn't authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity, said it would be «very difficult» but not impossible for the U.S. to get military equipment into Afghanistan if the Pakistan route is shut down.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

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.

The death occurred during a bloody day in Afghanistan in which 31 people, including 10 journalists, were killed in twin bombings targeting civilians in Kabul, and a suicide bombing targeted a military convoy in Kandahar province, wounding eight Romanian service members and killing numerous children who were nearby, coalition military officials said.

The father of a military veteran with PTSD who was shot by a guard at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Oregon says he feels betrayed by the VA and county officials.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

Muhammad was a sort of knight, an astute military man, a government official and a wise teacher who ended his life in serene beatification.

Sentry is an organization based out of the Enough Project and Not on Our Watch and its mission is to «disrupt and dismantle the networks of military officers, government officials, businessmen, arms dealers, bankers and other enablers who benefit financially and politically from Africa's deadliest conflicts,» according to its website.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

Military personnel, government officials, police officers, doctors, and nurses are just a few of the people who help others during acts of war and terrorism.

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.

Trump reshuffled his national security organization, removing his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, from a top policy - making committee and restoring senior military and intelligence officials who had been downgraded when he first came into office.

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

«Another police official told reporters that a lorry load of elderly Sikhs who surrendered on the first day of the military operation, were brought to the main city police station and tortured there by the army.

In what is considered as beginning of probe of Mugabe's government, Mnangagwa has ordered arrest of former officials who fled the country when the military toppled the veteran ruler last month.

Sen. Charles Schumer, who had been leaning heavily toward supporting President Obama's call for military strikes against Syria, made his position official today.

It is the deceit and secrecy about the origins of the Iraq War that have been most damaging to Blair's reputation with the connivance of those civil servants, intelligence officials and senior military who were drawn into his magic circle or remained silent rather than challenge his policy.

Military officials, who were initially caught off guard by Monday night's White House statement, would not discuss what options they were considering.

Chen, 19, who grew up in Chinatown and Lower East Side, was found dead of an apparent self - inflicted gunshot wound inside a guard tower in Kandahar Province on Oct. 3, 2011, military officials said.

According one of his aides who disclosed the development, the former military administrator of Kaduna state raised the draft and tendered it to the EFCC officials in Abuja.

Reid said that he would give the ring back to Lieutenant Choi, who received his official discharge letter from the military on Friday, once DADT is repealed.

During the 50 hours they will actually be in Israel, they will meet with government, military and diplomatic officials, but details on exactly who they will meet with are still being worked out, King said.

And then there was the coup warning by the Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, who warned the nation that unnamed politicians were actively procuring military officials for unpatriotic purposes.

When those counties approve a final, official ballot, those ballots will be mailed to the military voters who can vote again.

The WMD Center, a nonprofit that grew of out of a congressional commission, consists of former politicians and retired military brass who have joined up with clinicians and public health officials.

Make no mistake, this is advocacy cinema; interviews with Defense Department and military officials notwithstanding, there's not much effort, on Dick's part or anyone else's, to consider any point of view besides the victims» and those who love or speak for them.

In addition to the voices of the aggrieved (who include men), there are head - clutching interviews with sloganeering military officials.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

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).

The script never convincingly squares this film's vision of Cap as a guy who's willing to go it alone against government forces (led by William Hurt's Thaddeus «Thunderbolt» Ross) who want to regulate super-heroic interventions with the Captain America of «The Winter Soldier,» who decided he'd rather go against his own government than allow one of its highest ranking military officials to order extrajudicial assassinations.

We then meet the members of the Arizona Border Recon, a group of former military and law enforcement officials who take it upon themselves to patrol and keep watch over the Arizona - Mexico border with guns in hand.

It's an immediate concern, though one which is considered routine by the military officials and the men in Mike's company who Hank pays a visit.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

A senior Israeli official, General Amos Gilad, the Israeli defence ministry's director of policy and political - military relations, who played a key role in forging the Israeli - Egyptian alliance, hinted at the two countries» close cooperation during a recent visit to Singapore.

Lenders who specialize in ripping off military personnel have official sounding names like Military Financial, Just Military Loans, and Patriomilitary personnel have official sounding names like Military Financial, Just Military Loans, and PatrioMilitary Financial, Just Military Loans, and PatrioMilitary Loans, and Patriot Loans.

The eight categories for 2016 are: Arson Dogs, sponsored by State Farm ®; Emerging Hero Dogs, a category that pays tribute to ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, sponsored by Merial, maker of NexGard ® (afoxalaner) Chewables; Guide / Hearing Dogs, sponsored by Clover Stornetta (which is also the «Mootastic» sponsor of the 2016 Hero Dog Awards); Law Enforcement Dogs, sponsored by the RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program ™ from Zoetis; Military Dogs, also sponsored by the RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program from Zoetis; Search and Rescue Dogs; Service Dogs, sponsored by Modern Dog magazine; and Therapy Dogs, sponsored by Chicken Soup for the Soul Pet Food (which is also the Official Pet Food of the 2016 Hero Dog Awards).

The work's title makes reference to the media, not the warlords, military, or government officials who are the ones making representations of refugees for mass consumption.

Undeterred by threats of violence and verbal harassment from mining officials and the military — and reeling through the loss of a colleague at ALAMIN who was murdered because of his activism — Father Edu went on to broaden the grassroots movement beyond Mindoro.

The government officials, who supplied the money, while not indifferent to pure scientific discovery, expected the new knowledge would have civilian and military applications.

GAO representatives visited 15 military installations, and at 12 of them found officials who said they had observed not only rising temperatures, stronger and more frequent storms, and changing precipitation patterns, but had also seen how those changes created «potential impacts of mission vulnerabilities,» the report said.

Gleick, you might say, is a hero comparable to Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who in 1971 stole and released documents that revealed that U.S. officials lied to justify the war in Vietnam.

The official duties of a member of the military are often hazardous to public safety — for example, if Italy was invaded then the Americans would be firing rockets etc — so it would not be a surprise to the people who signed up to Article VII paragraph 3 (a) that a member of a foreign military's criminal offending could include the deaths of locals.