Sentences with phrase «military than civilian»

In the national capitals, there is also much more military than civilian expertise.

Not exact matches

«If I'm able to communicate one thing to adults, it would be this: It should not be easier to purchase a gun than it is to obtain a driver's license, and military - grade weapons should not be accessible in civilian settings,» she wrote.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

Adjusting from a military to civilian culture is no less intense than adjusting to a foreign culture.

With Starbucks's growth and more than 1 million active duty members of the U.S. military transitioning to civilian life in the coming years, Starbucks sees the commitment as a strategic form of outreach to the military community.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

Filing taxes if you are in the military is a lot like filing if you are a civilian The main difference between the two is that military men and women get many more exemptions and tax breaks than the normal person.

Like the military's M4s and M16s, civilian AR - 15s are fed with box magazines — the standard magazine holds 30 rounds, or cartridges — that can be swapped out quickly, allowing a gunman to fire more than a hundred rounds in minutes.

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.

Naval Base San Diego is the workplace for more than 48,000 military and civilian personnel.

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general popMilitary Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general popmilitary spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

AR -15-style rifles are a civilian variant of a standard service rifle used by the American military for more than a half - century.

As several studies are showing now, whole civilian barrio communities were razed by the hi - tech military invasion, displacing tens of thousands and killing many more than the 300 the U.S. government admits.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

However they were not mentioned as the Military version or the civilian version, and there was no mention that military style swords were more deadly than other styles of swords orMilitary version or the civilian version, and there was no mention that military style swords were more deadly than other styles of swords ormilitary style swords were more deadly than other styles of swords or spears!

Seeking to prevent another Vietnam, Congress put a cap on the number of U.S. personnel that could be assigned to military duty in Colombia, limiting the number to no more than 500 in uniform, plus 300 civilians.

That sounds neat, but in this kind of civil imbroglio lines between civilian and military are less than clear.

Scientists campaigned successfully for civilian rather than military administration of atomic energy.

As military historian Victor Davis Hanson has noted, «Hitler, Tojo, Kim Il Sung, and Ho Chi Minh... all lost more soldiers» and civilians» in their wars against us than we did.»

Both these books should be read by British politicians and civilian policy makers, because they demonstrate that conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan require more than just adequate military force.

The country's «internal conundrum of military versus civilian power must be slowly resolved in favour of civilian, but civilian politicians must be much more responsible to the nation than they have been so far» (p. 210).

Anne Deighton: You argue that the EU does civilian operations better than military ones.

Alter the Arak heavy water reactor to support civilian, rather than military, usage.

Elsewhere in the Mail interview, which comes just days after a report claimed 655,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed since military action in March 2003, he criticised reconstruction plans as «poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning».

Trewin said Alan later claimed that his knowledge of military history and technical details meant that when he was Minister for Defence Procurement he knew more than his military and civilian advisers - something they might dispute.

During Argentina's military dictatorship, which ended in 1983, at least 9,000 civilians were murdered and more than 20,000 people «disappeared.»

The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).

Many senior military personnel say that a career as a military scientist can be more rewarding and offer better job security than a career as a civilian scientist.

«It's also possible these brain injuries in military personnel that resulted in medical evacuation were more severe than we typically see in a civilian population.

In the military, health professionals are much more aware of their social mission as purveyors of public health than they are normally as civilians treating individual patients, Williams - Jones added.

Members of the UK armed forces are significantly more likely than civilians to commit a violent offence during their lifetime — and the risk for those who have experienced action on the battlefield is 53 per cent higher than for military personnel with no combat experience.

But that shouldn't be too much of a stretch given that civilian craft will have more in common with remote - controlled hobby aircraft than sinister military machines.

«Canadian military personnel more likely than civilians to think about suicide but also to seek help.»

«Trends of an increasing lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts over the 10 - year period and of a higher prevalence of suicidal ideation and plans among military personnel than among civilians in 2012/13 is a concerning and important observation with public - policy ramifications,» writes Dr. Jitender Sareen, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with coauthors.

Canadian military personnel have higher rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, but they are also more likely to access mental health support than civilians, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

People in the military with suicidal thoughts were significantly more likely than civilians to seek help and accessed more types of professionals for help.

Men in the military are 10 times more likely to experience sexual harassment than civilian men, but an estimated 81 percent of military men who are harassed do not report it, the articles added.

Code - named Project 523, it mobilized more than 500 researchers from some 60 organizations across several military and civilian agencies.

Study participants told researchers they believed that use of synthetic marijuana was significantly higher in the military than in the civilian population.

Those extra signals are one of the reasons military users can fix their location more precisely than civilian users can.

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

Researchers surveyed a representative sample of more than 1,100 military caregivers and compared their experiences to both civilian caregivers and noncaregivers.

Military research got a much higher boost than civilian research.

Reservists, who go home to civilian life rather than staying within the military, were the hardest hit.

The device, known as a pulsed - power generator, will be the largest of its kind in the civilian world, smaller only than half - a-dozen or so similar devices in military laboratories in the US, Russia and Europe.

Previous studies conducted with both military members and civilians who have experienced trauma have shown anger in the context of PTSD to be far more than a symptom; it can predict PTSD severity but also interfere with PTSD treatment.

In January 2016 an estimated number of 2000 Turkish academics from more than 90 Turkish Universities signed a petition criticizing the Turkish military for the operations that resulted in civilian deaths among the Kurdish population in the southeast of the country.

S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you control of over 10 of the world's most potent naval units out of a total of more than 270 civilian and military surface, submarine and air units included in the game.

Judd has a rough go of it, because military justice is much different than civilian, and enlists the services of ex-lush lawyer Freeman, a civilian that took on the military before and won.

Washington — A Pentagon - sponsored study comparing military recruits with a representative sample of other young Americans has found that the military volunteers — black, white, and Hispanic alike — score better than their civilian counterparts on a standard vocational aptitude test.