Sentences with phrase «more than the soldiers»

A prisoner who destroys an enemy fortress, killing himself in the process, is not committing suicide, any more than a soldier who falls on a grenade to save his battalion is committing suicide.

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

Liberal Democrat Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne pointed out Mr Hester's # 1.2 million salary meant he takes just three days to earn more than a soldier serving in Afghanistan for a year.

Not exact matches

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

The site of fierce battles during the Korean War, Gangwon's mountains remain a focal point for recovery missions searching for the remains of more than 7,700 American soldiers still unaccounted for, according to Pentagon figures.

That soldiers of all the armies kept fighting in the horrible trenches, often with a vigor that post-moderns find incomprehensible and more than a little distressing, says something about the human animal that needs discussion.

In the more than 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, between 2.5 and three million U.S. soldiers have served in active duty.

But he's more in the modern image of a soldier / theorist than the bombastic Pattonesque stereotype of yore.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

Gulen denies the accusations, but authorities have launched a crackdown on his vast network of followers, removing or suspending more than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, teacher, diplomats and journalists.

The company, which owns more than 1,500 apartment units in Greater Boston including nearly 1,000 in Allston - Brighton, acquired a new 19,250 - square - foot headquarters at 1200 Soldiers Field Road from Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. on May 24 for $ 3.8 million.

Not with my soldiers, their lives are worth more than thousands of people far away from our shores.

By the time an armistice halted the Korean War in 1953, nearly 37,000 U.S. troops had been killed and more than 400,000 North Koreans soldiers were dead, according to the U.S Department of Defense.

And I'm pretty sure that praying for victory in battle is more about being a better soldier than it is about tilting the tables in my favor.

«A NATO soldier killing innocent people is far more painful than the burning of a Quran.

Child soldier rescue, fighting sex trafficking — some justice issues sound more «exciting» than others, but what about the unsung work?

«In Israel, there is more courage in one soldier than in the cold heart of every bureaucrat at the U.N.»

Being a good soldier is probably the one trait that has caused me more misery in my life than anything else.

More than 3 million U.S. soldiers were deployed in Vietnam.

All, John tells them, must share what they have with those less fortunate; tax collectors must not extort more from the people than the law allows; soldiers must be satisfied with their wages and not rob the people.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

On November 4, 1983, a member of a Muslim suicide squad attacked an Israeli compound in southern Lebanon with a truck bomb, killing more than 60 soldiers, The following day Israeli fighter planes bombed the base from which the truck might have come.

Yet some of those soldiers today, carrying on in civil life with broken health, shattered nerves, lost limbs, need more courage than it took to see them through at St. Mihiel.

As public passions mount, more than 100,000 soldiers embark for the Middle East, confident of a swift and easy victory.

The Lord says «Peace be with you» and thepunishment was the invitation, «Touch me - more closely than anyone except my mother and the soldiers.»»

Something more is needed than weapons and more weapons, soldiers and more soldiers.

The church becomes one more dehumanising «thing» (seeing people as things called sinners, or bums on pews, or soldiers in the work of the church, or worship leaders, or whatever) more concerned with making sure the church / congregation / denomination survives than with seeing the individuals live.

This is surprising, since more than 140,000 soldiers of Irish birth served in the Union armies (with perhaps 40,000 on the Confederate side), the vast majority of them Catholic.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

It trained more than two thousand men in its military academy for service in the armed forces and organized visiting committees in the northwest to give medical aid and comfort to wounded soldiers and officials.

In the past twelve years of intense struggle, more than 36,000 have been killed, including «terrorist» freedom fighters, as well as soldiers, police, and civilians.

The military (mostly teens) loses more soldiers and sailors to suicide than to enemy action.

More children are killed by war lords in Afghansitan and gangs in Somalia than are filled by US soldiers.

Non-Catholic soldiers often appreciated the tactile nature of Catholic devotion and eagerly accepted gifts of medals and rosaries, even if they saw them as no more than lucky talismans.

According to the church's website, it has picketed more than 53,000 events, ranging from Lady Gaga concerts to funerals for slain U.S. soldiers.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)-- Israel's government approved an extraordinary deal Tuesday night - agreeing to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis, in exchange for a single slender young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

I trivially found an article on the web that completely supports the soldier's position and claims that he was threatened with more than just not being part of the graduation ceremony.

Most moviegoers will never see a more violent movie than this one (that it is rated «R» and not «NC - 17» is indefensible), with its sadistic soldiers and pools of blood.

libyan tnc that obama put in power are the ones who fought american soldiers in iraq and have more blood in their hands than qaddafi ever had and would have had.

A bible that belonged to a Church of Scotland minister who helped save more than 2,000 soldiers during the Second World War has been returned to his former church.

Infamous as the Kalashnikov assault rifle, this weapon has killed more American soldiers since 1952 than any other weapon in the world.

Likewise, the Palestinians «suffer more casualties than Israelis not because... they are somehow more moral» but because they are not as adept in fighting real soldiers in the full «fledged war that is growing out of their own intifada.»

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.»

Ike Jime fish are segregated from normal catch, and soldier - stacked in flaked ice with no one fish touching another in layers no more than two deep.

In 1994, when I was president, it was a great thrill to sit in the stands at Soldier Field in Chicago with more than 67,000 enthusiastic fans, including German chancellor Helmut Kohl and the president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sànchez de Lozada, in the opening game of the World Cup.

As many as 5,000 NVA soldiers, 10 to 12 battalions, had massed in the jungles surrounding Ripcord, and by July 21 they were lobbing more than 600 rounds a day on the firebase, sending the deadliest salvos whenever U.S. helicopters whirled in with ammo and soldiers raced for the helipad to carry the shells on their shoulders up the hill.

They have been touted as being more efficient, accurate and cheaper than using foot soldiers, with the cost of human lives decreasing dramatically when a pilot can kill his target from behind a computer screen thousands of miles away.

Managers and players r only temporal and will one time depart leaving us the fans with our great club and new faces.Though we are the most disappointed fans in the world after high expectations of summer signings we got no option but to rally behind our brilliant soldiers to the end.There comes a time when the club is more important than an individual, all in all I am proud to be a gunner from Kenya.

A goal keeper with a pony tail and a big black bold defender, a soldier with his general in midfield, a striker more at home in front of goal than most goalkeepers and a winger that excited with every touch.