Sentences with phrase «more than civilians»

In 2015, Obasanjo knew Buhari more than we civilians ever knew him, and he recommended him for the presidency.

Militaryservice — those who are in the service or the soldiers do not have to pay more than their civilian counterparts.

Because of their unique structure, federal resumes demand close attention to keywords, perhaps even more than civilian resumes.

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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.

According to Airwars, a UK - based independent monitoring group, between Trump's inauguration and mid-July, more than 2,200 civilians appeared to have been killed in coalition airstrikes — almost as many as the 2,300 likely killed by coalition strikes under Obama.

In Gaza, more than 2,000 people were killed, with Israel putting the percentage of civilians killed at approximately 50 percent and the Palestinians estimating it to be closer to 70 %.

But the Russian and Syrian bombs are being dropped indiscriminately on the opposition - controlled east, where more than 250,000 civilians are under siege.

The State Department's civilian workforce fell more than 6 % between September 2016 and September 2017, which includes the first eight months of the Trump administration.

Turkish forces have reportedly killed more than a hundred civilians, mutilated US - backed SDF fighters, and even indiscriminately shot at displaced civilians attempting to flee into Turkey.

Roughly 25,000 people, many of them civilians and refugees, were killed, and more than 75,000 buildings were destroyed.

Foreign affairs employees were more than 40 % of the 836 civilian workers who left between January 1 and September 30.

Multiple civilians were also killed in more than 150 airstrikes in Idlib on Sunday, which Moscow neglected to report.

The Asian country spent $ 16.48 billion on American - made civilian aircrafts, engines and aviation parts in 2015, up more than 180 percent from five years earlier.

That was Amazon Web Services (AWS), which really created the cloud for us civilians who simply didn't care to learn about, or pay for, any more infrastructure than what was absolutely necessary to get our companies launched.

Many veterans have strong leadership and managerial skills and were given more fiscal and people management responsibility at younger ages than civilian workers.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

«Few crimes are more detestable than terrorism, which intentionally murders innocent civilians to make a political statement.»

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 report suggests that civilians have been detained merely because they were suspected of supporting varying sides of the Ukrainian conflict, which began in April 2014 and has claimed more than 9,400 lives.

She downloaded more than 250,000 documents, including a video of an American helicopter gunning down civilians and two Reuters reporters, onto a CD titled «Lady Gaga.»

In 2007, Blackwater guards were accused of manslaughter in connection with a shooting that killed more than dozen civilians in Iraq.

And the aggressor was more than four times more likely to be stopped by an unarmed civilian than an armed one.

Since February 18, the regime's Ghouta offensive has killed more than 1,600 civilians and sliced the area into three isolated pockets, each held by different rebel factions.

Today, there are more than 22,000 residents here and many are civilian employees at the Tooele Army Depot, a facility that stores and is used to demilitarize weapons.

From our headquarters in Fairfax, Va., and from offices and locations around the globe, our more than 6,000 employees support government clients in civilian, defense, health, intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security agencies by delivering IT solutions and professional services in such areas as information technology lifecycle services; cloud and mobile computing; cyber security; solutions development and integration; and, strategy development and organizational change management.

Estimated in 2007, the number of civilian - owned firearms in the US was 88.8 guns per 100 people, meaning there was almost one privately owned gun per American and more than one per American adult.

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.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

While the post-1970 federal civilian workforce has hovered around two million full - time bureaucrats, the state and local government workforce roughly tripled, to more than eighteen million.

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.

Nixon's Operation Linebacker, an escalation, killed more than 1,600 civilians before the withdrawal.

Finding civilian work often takes longer than veterans expect, but if you've saved enough, you'll have time to be more selective about employment opportunities instead of feeling pressured to accept «any old job» ASAP.

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

The iShares MSCI USA Small - Cap ESG Optimized ETF (ESML) is part of iShares» larger ESG ETF family, which, in the wake of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, has altered its methodology to entirely exclude makers of civilian firearms or any retailer that earns more than $ 20 million or 5 % of their total revenue from the sale of civilian firearms.

Veterans in the private sector are 45 % more likely to be self - employed than civilians with no active - duty experience.

It's thought Boko Haram has killed more than 5,000 civilians between July 2009 and June 2014, including at least 2,000 in the first half of 2014.

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

As a priest, I am forced into more encounters with death than most civilians outside of the medical profession.

Yesterday, a U.S. air strike aimed at ISIS fighters killed more than 85 civilians, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The methods of spreading terror ranged from indiscriminate bombings to targeted campaigns such as the Phoenix program through which more than 30,000 civilians thought to be sympathetic to the enemy were assassinated.

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 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.

In 2013, more than 100 church leaders issued a joint declaration accusing the Muslim Séléka rebel coalition of killing pastors, raping nuns, torturing civilians, burning villages, destroying churches, and looting property.

In war it's ususally plenty of innocent civilian life, sometimes way more than the soldiers doing the fighting.

You have to know that more civilians are being killed than the so called targets we are trying to get rid off.

The number of IDPs has grown by more than 300 percent in the last 11 years, with conflicts in the Middle East, Colombia, Congo and Somalia displacing civilians.