Sentences with phrase «of army recruits»
That year, in the midst of America's fevered entry into war, Robert Sessions Woodworth of Columbia University created the Personal Data Sheet, a questionnaire that promised to assess the personalities of Army recruits.
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A tale of army recruits in their final days of training before heading to Vietnam in 1971, Tigerland is an original and modestly powerful anti-war film that never even goes «in country.»
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The company has recruited a volunteer army of decidedly manly men to champion its products.
Panjabi is using his $ 1 million 2017 TED Prize winnings to fulfill his wish of creating a digital health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in April.
Beyond that, many of the Union army veterans he'd recruited as sales agents wore their old uniforms as they worked, which reinforced the connection with their audience.
«They are sitting on metal chairs in an infirmary, where the new recruits of the [US Army's] Golden Division are normally examined.
At the most basic level, without an army of engaged employees, your marketing efforts — whether it be recruiting top talent or fostering employee advocacy on social media — can't reach their full potential.
That invasion was steadily extended westward until it reached the shores of the Atlantic, bringing into Islam great numbers of Berbers — remnants of the Romans and Vandals — who soon attained equal civil status with the invaders and became recruits in the Arab armies.
Jürgen Moltmann has shared, in a recent conversation, his experience as one of the 15 - year - old recruits to Hitler's army during the waning days of the Third Reich.
One of the premiere showcases in college football recruiting takes place on Saturday as college football's future stars participate in the U.S. Army All - American Bowl at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
Lt. Col. Gaylord Greene, who works in admissions at Army, said coaches will often encourage recruits to take more core courses, since the school requires more of them for entry than most others do.
THE SEEKERS Shopping for something snappy to one - up the neighbors at Schroon Lake next summer, two recruits in the army of new American boat buyers succumb to a salesman's glib take - it - for - a-spin attitude.
Aubrey Solomon, a five - star DT out of Georgia, had some not - so - positive words for the Wolverines while on a recruit's Periscope (that is now deleted) at the U.S. Army All - American Game.
Virginia's team of no name all - stars vs. Arizona's army of five - star recruits.
In the city, men with names like Artie, Dinty, Tim, Sal and Sol have sat on rooftops, seemingly for generations, talking pigeons, and for year after year their ranks have been recruited from armies of small boys sneaking up for a look at the lofts.
The tradition of announcing a college commitment on live television started at the 2003 U.S. Army All - American Bowl, when five star recruits Reggie Bush and Chris Leak committed to USC and Florida, respectively.
Zac Goldsmith would recruit a cyber army of volunteers to monitor the internet for «online extremism», if he becomes mayor, he said today.
The former members of a Gurkha regiment are employed by Serco to train current army recruits at the Risborough Barracks in Folkestone, Kent.
Documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that in the 1970s the Army refused to co-operate with the Institute of Race Relations and in reality operated quotas for ethnic minority recruits.
In fact, the only political activity (incitement is not political activity) which remains illegal is «willfully spreading of false news of the American army and navy with an intent to disrupt their operations, to foment mutiny in their ranks, or to obstruct recruiting.»
The proposals, to be included in the armed forces bill, build on recommendations made by the Deepcut inquiry into the deaths of three young recruits at a Surrey army barracks.
Indeed, at the closing ceremony on on Saturday, August 12 at Sampa, the MP for Jaman North who stood in for the Chief of Staff, Madam Frema Osei Opare assured the cadets they will be recruited in the army very soon.
«Others also claimed to be principal staff officers of Depot NA thereby convincing their victims to pay huge amount of money to be recruited into the Nigerian Army,» he stated.
He dismisses suggestions that his plans for one person, one vote elections for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership will lead to ordinary members being swamped by a stage army of leftwing union activists recruited as affiliated supporters.
Usman further said «The Shiite Sect on the orders of their leader, Ibrahim Alzak - zaky today (Saturday) afternoon in Zaria attacked the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff while on his way to pay homage on the Emir of Zazzau and attend the Passing Out Parade of 73 Regular Recruits Intake of Depot Nigerian Army, Zaria.»
These strange little groups, which are supposed to scrutinise prisons, use a baffling recruitment process to recruit an army of wealthy retired people to monitor prisons full of people whose lives they will never be able to understand.
Speaking on the eve of Labour's Autumn conference the East Renfrewshire MP, heralded by many in Labour as one of Ed Miliband's most reliable sentinels, said: «This Government has not prioritised armed forces education, particularly in the army where 50 per cent of recruits have a reading age 7 — 11.»
After analysing how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attracts new recruits, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust concluded its literature presents a misleading picture of army life, with the subsequent disillusionment leading to a high number of people dropping out of the armed forces.
«Two days ago, the media was awash with the story of Tiv militia gang arrested in Taraba State by the Army who confessed that over 1000 of them were recruited and dangerously armed by the Benue State Government to kill the Fulani herdsmen.
The Nigerian Army said yesterday that it arrested one «Mr. Onokphemheo Godswork» operating under the false name Mr. Guy Ajah, for defrauding applicants of 74 Regular Recruits Intake under the guise of facilitating their recruitment into...
Back in 2008, Barack Obama's success at recruiting an army of online small - dollar donors gave him a tremendous advantage in the long primary battle against Hillary Clinton, and his subsequent general election contests.
The campaign aims to recruit an army of volunteers to help give the country a spring clean ahead of the Queen's official birthday celebrations.
He said that as part of its expansion, 12,000 personnel would be recruited in 2016 alone to fill the vacancies created as a result of the new establishments in the army.
According to the Army, members of the sect on the orders of their leader, Ibraheem El - Zakzaky, attacked the convoy of Buratai, who was on his way to pay homage to the Emir of Zazzau and to attend the passing out parade of some new recruits in the state.
May he recruit an army of advocates.
«For avoidance of doubt and to set the record straight, the Nigerian Army wishes to state that every eligible Nigerian is qualified to be recruited into the Nigerian Army provided such individual meets the set standards.
A group of new military recruits received a special honor, as U.S. Army Secretary Eric Fanning visited an uptown...
Cash - strapped governments are recruiting an army of unlikely helpers to boost public services with quick digital fixes, but are they the solution?
Incorporating this into the Army 2020 plan would provide a framework to deal with the challenges of recruiting the best from a shrinking youth pool while practising their egalitarian values.
They also note that since the study was only of male army recruits, it is not certain whether the findings apply directly to women.
Three of the U.S. military's newest recruits reported for duty this week at the Army Test and Evaluation Command.
Bots of Burden: U.S. Army Recruiting an Array of Animal - Inspired Robots to Assist Battlefield Troops [Video]
Researchers in fields ranging from biochemistry to cosmology are recruiting armies of volunteers to help solve some of science's thorniest problems.
The Turkana Basin Institute, in collaboration with the University of Bradford, has set up a web site fossilfinder.org, recruiting an army of «citizen scientists» to help discover fossils and other ancient artefacts using the unique online platform «Zooniverse».
As FSH attempts to recruit follicles to be sacrificed in its morbid version of Hunger Games, the follicles themselves release an army of their own to defend its follicular population!
Brushoj C, Larsen K, Albrecht - Beste E, Nielsen MB, Loye F, Holmich P. Prevention of overuse injuries by a concurrent exercise program in subjects exposed to an increase in training load: a randomized controlled trial of 1020 army recruits.
The young wizards of Hogwarts will need something much more effective than Umbridge's Ministry - approved course in defensive magic if they are to truly succeed in the extraordinary battle that lies ahead, however, and when the administration fails to provide the students with the tools that they will need to defend Hogwarts against the fearsome powers of the Dark Arts, Hermione (Emma Watson), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Harry take it upon themselves to recruit a small group of students to form «Dumbledore's Army» in preparation for the ultimate supernatural showdown.
Meanwhile, the bitter Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), who's been reduced to doing bad dinner - theatre revisionist dramatizations of his battle with Shrek, recruits an army of fabled villains to invade Far Far Away and take control of the kingdom.
Demetrius plots to destroy Jasin by creating an army of vampires by recruiting unwilling victims from the local boxing gym for his new brood.
There is a history of this sort of thing, of course: the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, in which female recruits were forced to run a «gauntlet» that amounted to a gang rape; the 1996 accusations of 30 women at the Army Aberdeen Proving Ground; the 142 allegations over a decade at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which finally surfaced in 2003.