Sentences with phrase «military threat in»

Sennacherib receives news of a military threat in the south.

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The threat has been driven by Russia's military involvement in Syria and separatist militancy in its disputed Northern Caucasus region.

In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

Notably, the military has put a greater emphasis on tunnels, naming them as a primary threat in army chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot's «IDF Strategy» paper.

The Kurdish - Arab town is under threat of a Turkish military operation that has already complicated the war in Syria.

One report deals with the performance of the government and military during the conflict, dubbed Operation Protective Edge in Israel, and in the lead - up to it in general, with special attention paid to Hamas tunnels and Israel's lax preparations for dealing with their threat.

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.

After strong words from President Donald Trump promising «fire and fury» in response to continued threats from Pyongyang, North Korea threatened to launch a nuclear - missile attack on the US military in Guam.

The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

However, when Bitcoin suddenly shot up on Thursday, the online chatter was mostly about the White House's military threats against Russia in Syria, its sanctions on Russia and its tariffs on China, with people speculating that Russians and Chinese might be buying into Bitcoin to quietly get their money out of those countries.

That was a milestone in its decades - long drive to pose an atomic threat to its American adversary that Trump has vowed to prevent, using military force if necessary.

The memo points out that, in the past, State Department - led «bureaucrats cut off U.S. military aid to the police in Colombia as the GOP Congress fought to save Colombia from the FARC terrorist threat, while simultaneously tacking the drug threat.»

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

If the summit fails to conclude in an agreement, that could be seen as a failure of diplomacy and, in turn, may heighten the threat of military action.

Interesting they reject it «as a policy matter,» but aren't willing to reject military force in the United States as a legal matter, even in instances where law enforcement would better incapacitate the threat.

During a trip to Moscow last month by Pakistan's foreign minister, Khawaja Asif, the two countries announced plans to establish a commission on military cooperation to combat the threat of IS in the region.

The U.S. military flew two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force late on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump met with top defense officials to discuss how to respond to any threat from North Korea.

As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well - established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat.»

«With the threat environment unlikely to abate per a host of global tensions spanning China, the Mideast, North Korea, and Russia, we do not foresee any imminent fall - off in US military budgets,» wrote Morgan Stanley analysts led by Rajeev Lalwani.

Kirby declined to comment on the report's details but acknowledged the danger posed by «insider threats» and that the military had drawn lessons from its experience in Afghanistan, where some NATO troops have been attacked and killed by Afghans in uniform.

Israel's state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long - awaited, highly critical reports published on Tuesday.

In January the U.S. blocked Huawei's partnership with AT&T Inc., citing the company's links to the Chinese military as evidence that the tieup would pose a threat to American national security.

Tweeter in Chief: Despite his pronouncements that he would never publicly telegraph military plans, President Trump's threats of military action against Syria may have already triggered a response from adversaries.

In the past, military conflicts in the Middle East and the attendant threat of supply disruptions would send oil prices soarinIn the past, military conflicts in the Middle East and the attendant threat of supply disruptions would send oil prices soarinin the Middle East and the attendant threat of supply disruptions would send oil prices soaring.

The Pentagon is moving to halt the sale of phones made by Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in retail outlets on U.S. military bases around the world, citing potential security threats they say the devices could pose.

Henry Mayr - Harting's chapter on the «age of conversion» in the West (the former «Dark Ages») is particularly clear and well - stated, and Jeremy Jons» essay, «Christianity and Islam,» is a useful orientation to the theological challenge of Islam as well as to the more familiar political and military threats of Muslims to the late - antique and medieval West.

The U.S. believes an operation in North Waziristan is key to success in the Afghan war because the area serves as the main base for the Haqqani network — a militant group that military officials have said poses the greatest threat to troops in Afghanistan.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

This placing of their very lives in the hands of a strategic elite was like the trust that always had to be granted by democracies to their military leaders, such as in ancient Athens or pre-1950s America; it was unlike it in the sheer immediacy of the new sort of death - threat and the practical impossibility of evading it.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

on Premier's News Hour, he said: «The way in which we conduct any military action in Iraq, I think, should be on a humanitarian basis to protect people, not on the basis of fear and threat to the UK.»

If South American nations can overcome these obstacles, this should be possible in parts of the world where domination has thus far been chiefly economic, with much less threat of overt military intervention.

i could give a rats ass about religion... obama has proven to be anti american as well as the largest national security threat to our great country and the brave american men and women who serve in the military providing all of us freedom.

While in the military, Kelley, who was 21 at the time, made death threats against superior officers, according to the June 2012 report, which also mentioned the military charges.

Many of them do not understand that the threat of catastrophic judgment is brought on by their nation as nation and by its vested interests: neglect of the least privileged in this country and beyond, economic exploitation, popular media saturated in violence, the support of repressive client regimes, military buildup and the corporate destruction of the environment.

My main point is that now that Marxism has ceased to be a threat in terms of political and military power, its analysis is becoming more and more relevant.

This means, for one thing, reconsideration of the military threat to us in view of the fact that Mr. Khrushchev has a better understanding of the meaning of nuclear war than either the Chinese or some American Senators.

we just graduated today with this kid, all AIT hes done nothing but complain about everything and now he has the nerve to defame our ceremony, for one no one made a threat to have him pulled from the ceremony for not praying, it was a threat to remove him for refusing to act in a military manner and not be in unison with the rest of us.

Thus, war and the threat of war make education in all nations subordinate to considerations of military strength.

This was not only because of the enormous amount of resources that the military in all countries were using up but also the ultimate threat of a nuclear war that might, in one stroke, destroy the life - support systems of the earth.

The threats to the present world order, grounded in what Brueggemann calls «military capitalism,» abound in frightening form.

BBC Worldwide Monitoring (2001) «Public poll sees threat to Russia from US military action» Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 1137 gmt 9 Oct 01.

Malcolm Turnbull has warned China against establishing a military base in the South Pacific because it would be a threat to regional peace.

I was just trying to put in perspective the military threat of each country.

Military risk assessment requires that both the likelihood and the severity of a threat eventuating be assessed in order for decision - making to occur.

In 2008, a group of retired four - star generals, admirals and other senior military leaders banded together out of a growing concern that a significant segment of America's youth are unfit to serve in the armed forces, presenting a serious long - term threat to our national securitIn 2008, a group of retired four - star generals, admirals and other senior military leaders banded together out of a growing concern that a significant segment of America's youth are unfit to serve in the armed forces, presenting a serious long - term threat to our national securitin the armed forces, presenting a serious long - term threat to our national security.

In the early days, this was quite easy as America really only had to maintain a small military force to counter European and Native American threats on the mainland, both were not to powerful... and if war broke out, reinforcements were difficult to get to the Americas before the US could increase its own forces.

The BNI had decided to keep the men in the ring of the military training controversy of NPP operatives, due to a flurry of allegations the bureau picked up concerning threats they posed.

As the pressure builds for an increase in military spending, we should recognise that our threats are of an entirely different nature

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.