Sentences with phrase «military victory»

We are prepared to fight the bad guys wherever they appear, but we don't seem to have the stomach to finish the job after the initial military victory.

A few years ago a bitterly satirical movie, The Victors, suggested the hollowness of the meaning of military victory in modern warfare.

Judging by the dearth of military victories in the last 65 years, the decline in hunting, and the growth in population, it seems more and more that they are anachronisms.

For months leading up to the Battle of Lepanto, fought on this day 443 years ago, Pope Pius V urged the faithful to pray for military victory against Muslim forces aiming to storm Italy from its Adriatic coast.

Even after he cast his lot with the Jacobin regime, he would celebrate military victories with a Te Deum.

Contra attacks are not mere accidents of war, but are part of a strategy which focuses on disrupting development work, rather than on achieving military victories.

The Roman Empire, they wrote, was based on faith in achieving peace through military victory.

Mr Moreno - Ocampo said after the failure of the Sudanese army and Janjaweed to achieve a decisive military victory against rebels he pursued civilian survivors with the weapons of «rapes, hunger and fear».

Violent conflicts that end by military victory tend to produce a more durable peace than conflicts that end by a negotiated settlement.

Many of England's greatest military victories before Trafalgar and Waterloo were orchestrated in this epoch, shaping the nation's identity as an emergent military power and a country whose influence pervaded far beyond its borders.

As President Donald Trump gets «very close» to a new Afghanistan strategy, there's more at stake than just military victory.

Trump mentioned military victories, but the main emphasis fell on the remarkable endurance of the Polish people: «While Poland could be invaded and occupied» — as has happened throughout the modern era — «it could never be erased from history or your hearts.

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

The contras within this framework of unacceptable structural reforms and improvements in living standards were not expected to win a traditional military victory.

A nation that has never known anything but military victory has recently twice had to settle for a draw, not because we have really been beaten, but because our very intoxication with our own power has led us into untenable situations where the cost of «victory» became so great that it was no longer tolerable.

We should be gullible indeed if we supposed that mere military victory would end the powerful threat of the faith which is proposed as a successor to the religion of the West.

An overwhelming U.S. military victory may create more problems in the Middle Last than it can solve, such as an unlimited U.S. military presence, more intractable Israeli - Palestinian hostilities, intensified Arab anti-Americanism, masse's of refugees, Syrian and Iranian ascendancy, immense economic burden and unending terrorism.

But how different was Esther's and Mordecai's military victory from the Passover deaths that enabled Moses and Aaron to lead the people to freedom?

That's because military victories tend to be more decisive, resulting in the defeat of one side or the other, while negotiated settlements allow warring parties to take up arms again if they choose to walk away from peace.

The logic of sufficiency aims to contain war as a purely military competition allowing only that harm which is necessary and sufficient for a competition between militaries geared towards «generic military victory» to be possible.

It was a rout, and Castracani became a hero whose military victories were immortalized by Machiavelli.

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate French military victories.

It was his first major military victory and launched his conquest of Gaul (Western Europe).

Two months after the Allied military victory in Takistan, the new government is restoring the war - torn country.

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec, one of Great Britain's most famous military victories, during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War.

Just double checked and venus had all that aphrodite had but was also seen as the goddess of military victory and prosperity.

The delegates elected Washington president of the convention to lead them through the morass any rebelling society faces: It is one thing to achieve military victory, quite another to design a functioning government.

On your return towards Lille, you will also take in Vimy Ridge, the site of Canada's most celebrated military victory and V.C. Corner at Fromelles.

Morale is a key factor in any military victory.

Of course we are aware that this aspect is decisive and that, without the American victory in the Gulf War in 1991, the world would not be what it is, since they used their military victory to impose a redefinition of the world market at the agricultural level and on the level of the so - called the information society.

I believe it was right to stop the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, though as in Afghanistan, where I also think our military action was justified, we can ask if our contribution to its rebuilding has matched our military victory.

And it makes little difference whether the imagined goal is structured in terms of scientific discovery, space adventures and technological wonders, or of market coups, military victories and sexual exploits, or of revolutionary utopias, otherworldly mysticisms and psychedelic fancies.

To those awaiting a military victory over their enemies, He sent a Messiah who taught liberation through forgiveness and peace.

The country has never felt itself validated as fully as it was through that military victory and has never been more tempted by events to identify the cause of God with the world role of the United States of America.

The cacti that grow in definite patterns on these hills are not indigenous to the area, but were planted as hedges between farm huts bulldozed by the Israelis as a security measure after their 1967 military victory.

Again, they had won a military victory, but not control.

18:36)... In this light, it's nothing short of tragic that we now find ourselves with a version of the Bible whose sole purpose is to reinforce the nationalism and celebrate the military victories of a particular country.»

He was prosperous, he had military victory, and finally he had the spoken word of blessing by Melchizedek.

In the ancient world, official messengers brought news of military victory or defeat, natural disasters, notice of future unscheduled events.