Sentences with phrase «occupying force»

These missions include exfiltrating prisoners; eliminating military commanders either through assassination or kidnapping; dismantling the infrastructure of occupying forces and more.

In fact, pacifist theorists have urged the development of a civilian - based non-military defense, which would encompass organized but nonviolent resistance, refusal to cooperate with occupying forces, and efforts to undermine enemy morale.

Such a proposition would theoretically permit gross retaliations against civilians in almost any circumstances as long as occupying forces could identify a single guilty individual that was the real target; the rest would be collateral damage.

Unfortunately as our churches grow larger numerically, the invasion of business leadership tends to set up occupied forces whose role has been to conquer and control the organic nature of the Church.

Gen. Odom has suggested that a NATO occupying force might have to remain in Serbia (with support troops doubtless in Hungary) for «decades,» a bitter pill since Soviet troops left Hungary not so long ago.

«We condemn in the strongest term the atrocity by the Israeli occupying forces using this massive firepower against civilians who have the right to demonstrate peacefully, and they have been demonstrating peacefully,» Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters outside the U.N. Security Council chambers in New York.

A quisling (/ ˈkwɪzlɪŋ /; Norwegian pronunciation: [² kvisliŋ]-RRB- is a term originating from Norway, which is used in Scandinavian languages and in English for a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force — or more generally as a synonym for traitor.

On first impressions, it's like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with...

The dogs used by the U.S. Marine Corps to help take Pacific Islands back from Japanese occupying forces.

It will be interesting to see if the US or the UK are held to be occupying forces at the time and have violated Art 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights» (the Convention's) absolute prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment by their treatment of Saddam as he approached death.

Simply put, the level of distress made the Germans more open to cooperating with the occupying forces.»

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

Any connection between those sacred teachings and the belligerent conduct of the Occupy forces is imaginary.

When talking about Jesus, I see him attending to the request of a centurion someone representing an occupying force and naturally at enmity with his own people, the Jews as readily as to his own people.

There are no protests in Pakistani Kashmir while there are protests everyday in Indian Kashmir, there are no political parties demanding Independence in Pakistani Kashmir where as Hurriyat Conference and others regularly make that demand in Indian Kashmir, there is no Police and Military brutality in Pakistani Kashmir where as World's largest democracy has passed laws to provide legal cover to the occupying forces who commit atrocities and warcrimes.

You might also ask why they don't take the occupying forces from Iraq and Syria and go to Israel.

In Iraq and Syria, they recruited disaffected Muslims and integrated them into an occupying force that operates locally.

Most of these groups fight because they believe that the occupying force is threatening their way of life, or their faith.

It is a seminal work on the occupation and one of the most damning assessments of what being an occupying force does to a country.

«We do not «patrol and secure» neighborhoods based on selective enforcement because of race or religion, nor will we use the police and an occupying force to intimidate a populace or a religion to appease the provocative chatter of politicians seeking to exploit fear.»

The number of brooches found points to whole families, not just an occupying force, present across the area.

In the Nazi - occupied Lviv, Poland of 1943, a sewage worker named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is allowed, as a gentile, to continue with his work relatively unbothered by the occupying forces.

Elsewhere, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) is discovering that maintaining control over the city of Meereen as an occupying force is almost as challenging as wrangling a trio of dragons once they're all grown - up and independent.

The screenplay written by Mackenzie («Young Adam»), Bash Doran («Boardwalk Empire»), James MacInnes, Mark Bomback and renowned Scottish playwright David Harrower takes place over the extraordinary historic year when Robert the Bruce fights to regain control having been crowned King of Scots, only to be defeated in a surprise attack and made an outlaw by the English King and his occupying forces.

It's about the limits of control, what it's like to live under an occupying force, and how hard it can be to relinquish power.

Assassination (Unrated) Historical drama, set in 1933, revolving around Korean resistance's plot to kill the military commander of Japan's occupy forces.

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As the war ended, a Major Ivan Hirst was in charge of the occupying forces and saved the factory from being scrapped.

Though many novels have come from the Iraq War, Pitre's stands out as one of the first to include the Iraqi perspective as well as that of the occupying forces, demonstrating once again that despite appearances, there are no winners when it comes to conflict.

All Slovenes are in accord with the struggle against the occupying forces.

In today's world there are many places where armed resistance to occupying forces is...

The Slovenian people have launched an inexorable struggle against the occupying forces.

When the eight people in hiding were arrested on 4 August 1944, their hiding place was soon emptied by the occupying forces.

A Good Match For: Strategy fans, people who liked the first game, anyone who's ever wanted to understand just how difficult it is to fight off an occupying force from the inside out.

Effectively, the cult has invaded the land and become an occupying force.