Sentences with phrase «of military camps»
In the loneliness of military camps, in the terror of battle, in the emptiness of loss, you who are chaplains bear witness to the presence, the sacramentally Real Presence, of «the one who fills all things in every way.»
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The thirty minute drive down to the coast was spectacular with awesome views over the mountainous terrain running directly into the Adriatic Sea at Mlini some seven miles along the coast east of Dubrovnik countryside Where Marshal Tito, the longtime erstwhile head of state of what was then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, built himself a truly magnificent villa on a headland within the midst of a military camp together with a naval facility close by at Kupari within a mile of this villa.
The classroom in Ghalanai, an area nestled amid the mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt, has the air of a military camp: a solitary tent pitched beside a bombed - out building, ringed by a high wall and protected by an armed gunman.
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He was a teenager when, in 1994, military police plucked him from the streets of Asmara and transported him, by open - bed truck, to Sawa military camp.
A few weeks ago, my friend and I embarked on a camping trip — the same one that could have been helped with the military's super underwear — and we wasted a good deal of time tooling around in Barrie, Ontario looking for the Mountain Equipment Co-op outdoors supply store.
U.S. military veterans will meet with tribal leaders on Saturday as they continue to entrench themselves in a North Dakota camp where thousands of activists are protesting a multibillion - dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.
In 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terror.
Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.
Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.
We find that the Romans owed... the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observation of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.»
The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.
If we want to liken what Jesus did to a movie, it is not a «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene we should imagine, but Chuck Norris breaking Prisoners of War out of a military prison camp — except without all the shooting and killing.
Documents detailing the inner workings of the Guantanamo military prison camp have leaked, and some of the contents are pretty disturbing.
The number of Christians known to have been detained in desert camps and military facilities since May has now risen to 210.
The reason the road is open from the checkpoint to Zababdeh is because Bezek, an Israeli military training camp, is stationed at the edge of the village.
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time, visited their camp to back the effort and encourage them.
His grandfather was a cook for British Generals in a military camp in Jaffa during the time of the British mandate in pre-Israel Palestine.
In addition to improving the differentiation of Australian products in existing markets, creating safer and more stable products can open up access to niche markets, such as products for remote mining camps, military rations or servicing remote developing regions in South East Asia.
No matter what a person's views on the military the fact that our kids can't make it through boot camp because of health concerns is a big deal.
Most parents are initially quick to blame their teen's melancholy mood on haywire hormones and may attempt to coax them from their gloominess by telling them to «Just snap out of it» or even enrolling them in boot camps or military schools to toughen them up.
Overwhelmed parents often opt to send their struggling teens to boot camps and military schools mistakenly thinking that a regimen of strict discipline will straighten them out.
Teen boot camps include staff with a drill sergeant mentality and the enforcement of military - like discipline.
It will be recalled that due to the concerted efforts of the military quite a number of towns and villages hitherto held by the Boko Haram terrorists were liberated, this brought about an unprecedented influx of IDPs to the camp which the terrorists took advantage and infiltrate in order to wreck more havoc among the society.
Oner of the recent allegation is that the Nigerian military has raped over 20 girls in IDP Camps in Borno State.
The suicide bombers had used the cover of darkness to stalk the military camp at about 9.45 pm, but were promptly detected by the vigilant troops who engaged them when they refused to comply with the order to halt.
«The troops recovered quite a number of items at both the camp and the shrines which include; 10 human skulls, various human bones, 2 AK - 47 Rifles, 1 General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), 18 AK - 47 Rifle Magazines, 4 pairs of military camouflage, 5 camouflage T - Shirts, and 3 Fabrique Nationale (FN) Rifle Rifle magazines.
«While the military and other security agencies have made tremendous successes in degrading and decimating the terrorists who are now in disarray having lost their Centre of gravity, camps and their source of logistics.
As the military onslaught to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from the North East gains momentum, troops of the 28 task Force Brigade, backed by close air support by the Nigerian Air Force, have rescued 61 persons abducted and held captive by the terrorist's along Bitta and Damboa axis and in the process, cleared Boko Haram terrorists» camps at Modupe 1, 2 and 3.
Following sustained the Military's air and land bombardment of Boko Haream Camps inside Sambisa Forest, scores of fleeing members of the terrorists gang fleeing the onslaught through one of the exit routes of the vast...
«In the so - called inaccessible territories in Borno State, tens of thousands of IDPs were held in camps under armed guard by the Nigerian military and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a state - sponsored civilian militia formed to fight Boko Haram.
«While the Nigerian military continues to work hard so that these unfortunate victims of Boko Haram terrorism can soon return safely to their homes, the government will do its best to ensure their protection and welfare in the temporary IDP camps.»
He added that the camp and shrines were subsequently destroyed, while the rescued victims were taken to one of the military's medical facilities in the area.
A Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson Dafeamekpor, today [Wednesday], walked out of a meeting to consider an agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement, that will allow them to have a camp in Ghana for its military forces.
The Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul, has said the proposed site to camp US military forces in Ghana will be close to Ghana's premier Airport, Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
For instance, a journalist observed that even though many doubted the sincerity of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki when he sought and obtained approval for postponement of 2015 general election to enable the military to degrade Boko Haram and ensure maximum security of voters, all known terrorists» camps were destroyed before the emergence of new government on May 29; Sambisa Forest was stormed by «Special «M» forces» and about 300 kidnapped women and children were freed; 22 terrorist occupied towns in three states were recovered; and Boko Haram could not disrupt the elections.
As the Nigerian military pushes ahead inside the dreaded Sambisa Forest to clear the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists and their camps, soldiers have repelled an attempted reprisal attack and killed over 50 of the terrorists in several attacks.
The military has so far destroyed dozens of Boko Haram camps and freed more than 1,000 kidnap victims since inauguration of President Buhari.
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has warned that if government goes ahead to approve the defence cooperation agreement with the United States that will allow them to have a military camp in Ghana, it will be suspended when the party returns to office in 2021.
Ghana could become a target for extremists if the agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement that will allow the latter to have a military camp in Ghana is ratified.
Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, had said that the previous John Mahama administration's handling of the hosting of the two Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana, can not be compared the current government's handling of the proposed US military camp in the country.
A Member of the Committee and member of the Minority in Parliament, Rockson Dafeamekpor, on Wednesday walked out of a meeting to consider an agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement that will allow them to have a camp in Ghana for its military forces.
The Minister of Denfense, Dominic Nitiwul, on Tuesday laid before Parliament the document seeking to ratify an agreement for space around the Kotoka International Airport, which will serve as a camp for some US military forces in Ghana.
It has emerged that the Government of Ghana has sent to Parliament for ratification, a Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation between Ghana and the United States, that will give the Americans some space in the country to set up a camp for its military forces.
The Government of Ghana has sent to Parliament for ratification, a Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation between Ghana and the United States, to give the Americans some space in the country to set up a camp for its military forces.
Following sustained the Military's air and land bombardment of Boko Haream Camps inside Sambisa Forest, scores of fleeing members of the terrorists gang fleeing the onslaught through one of the exit routes of the vast forest, have met their waterloo at the hands of Nigerian troops at Pulka.
In the ensuing onslaught so for, the military have destroyed about 15 heavily fortified camps, killing scores of terrorists» and weaponry belonging to the group and rescuing scores of abducted captives including women, girls and children.
Following sustained the Military's air and land bombardment of Boko Haream Camps inside Sambisa Forest, scores of fleeing members of the terrorists gang fleeing the onslaught through one of the exit routes of the vast forest, have met their waterloo at the hands -LSB-...]
Still fresh in our memory are President Jonathan's politics of exclusion; his many failed promises; how he soaked the hands of the military in the murky waters of dirty politics; how he punished the entire North but pretended to be its best friend; the way he tore the entire country into two religious camps, his deliberate impoverisation of Nigerian Muslims, his favouritism in the area of job recruitment and his nepotism.
The Nigerian Military in a joint operation involving the Army, the Air force and Civilian JTF at the weekend, overcame an ambush attack launched by Boko Haram terrorists against troops at their camp in Chukungudu, Sambisa Forest vicinity, killing 19 terrorists including one of their wanted Commanders.
One interesting aspects of the camp fire was the disposition of troops who surged, formed a ring and girated round the fire, shouting / praising the Chief of Army Staff and the GOC for providing them the necessary logistics to successfully conduct one of the successful military Exercise in the history of Nigerian Army Exercises.