Sentences with phrase «of numbers of soldiers»

China has the biggest in terms of numbers of soldiers, which is what would count here.

This month's Battlefield 1 takes a more visceral approach, placing you in the boots of a number of soldiers across a range of French, Italian and Mesopotamian historical arenas.

Not exact matches

The use of helicopters has also greatly reduced the number of combat deaths since wounded soldiers are able to get medical attention much quicker.

«Since Michael Fallon became Defence Secretary in 2014, the number of fully trained soldiers has fallen by over 7,000.

Moreover, while prisoners were generally taken, particularly if they were in large numbers — whole companies or even battalions of soldiers giving themselves up, as sometimes happened — it was an unspoken rule that soldiers who resisted too long or too hard had given up any right to quarter.

«I don't know [the Ukrainian blog's] exact calculations, they just threw out the 100,000 number,» Tack said, adding that they basically figured Moscow would pack each rail cars to the brim with 72 soldiers, and that they multiplied the final number by 1.5 times on the assumption that the Kremlin was keeping the real number of rail cars secret.

A number of organizations can help you get started or, beginning Nov. 9, Starbucks stores will offer cards that can be sent to soldiers.

«A large number of Soldiers have never heard of servant leadership,» Chambers said.

Wait wait wait... so we're supposed to believe that our soldiers can handle bombs, guerilla attacks, being fired upon, and any number of war horrors... but they can't handle showering next to some dude who happens to also like other dudes?

Maybe it's the excitement of the sharp point - counterpoint debates of the commentators, or perhaps the flashing «breaking news» graphics that pop up with every little dip in Obama's poll numbers or every slip of the stock market, or perhaps it's the crawling news scroll that announces everything from Lindsey Lohan's most recent relapse to the report of another soldier's death in Iraq.

However, I do take exception with the numbers of US soldiers killed in Iraq.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

Historians have long theorized that the south lost the civil war due to the number of mentally challenged soldiers in the Confederate army, a direct result of this inbreeding.

(Numbers 31:7 - 18) So were the young virgin girls lucky that they weren't slaughtered like the rest of their people, or were they unlucky that they were essentially taken as sex slaves to be used to satiate the lusts of the soldiers who slaughtered their fathers, mothers, brothers, and older sisters?

When he had built up his Turkish forces to seventy thousand men, the presence of such a large number of soldiers in Baghdad was causing discontent among the people of the city so the Caliph ordered new housing built especially for the army.

And don't forget when Moses ordered the army to go back and kill all the (thousands of) little boys and non-virgin females from the tribe of Midian, allowing the soldiers to keep only the virgin girls for their own use (Numbers 31:17 - 18).

Nevertheless the number of Catholic soldiers at the front — including the first VC of the war, Lt Maurice Dease of the Royal Fusiliers (an old boy of Stonyhurst)-- clearly showed that it was possible to be a British subject and a good Catholic at the same time.

I'd bet an ice cream sundae to your PFC that said soldier * beat * your numbers in all ways, and you're the whiner because you just don't like hearing anybody «diss your disrespectable, disreputable, disintegrating myth of a religion.

This Soldier's individual courage should be an example to the growing number of young Americans who are questioning the beliefs they grew up with.

While soldiers were fornicating their way across Europe and women on the home front were in contact with men on the war assembly lines, the number of «Dear John» letters received at the front and in the POW cages constituted a real threat to morale.

Thus our soldier is an aggregate, consisting of a self - conscious monad, or mind, which is the soldier's real self, 12 and a body, which is itself a collection of an infinite number of monads, ruled, as it were, by the soldier's mind (M 62).

As we crisscrossed the Dominican Republic, we noticed the large number of soldiers along the roads.

Maybe, if you pad your numbers with all the Christians killed by other Christians in the name of ridding the faith of «heretics», or «witches»; or the Christian soldiers who were killed for mostly political and economic motives during the Crusades, then you might be getting close.

He and the other soldier settlers in the Stanhope district suffered a number of hardships in the early 1920s, including droughts, rabbit plagues, and low milk prices.

While he'll be hoping to maintain those numbers away from Soldier Field this weekend, he will be fully aware of the necessity to show the same precision at home.

It is interesting to note that at the time that Bowlby's theory gained wide acceptance, women were being discouraged from working in order to increase the number of jobs available for British soldiers returning home from war.

«A large number of policemen and soldiers were initially deployed in the school.

What is the strength of the Nigerian Army that such a huge number of soldiers would be deployed in Ekiti alone?

«The said number of soldiers, how did they come in?

Between them, during the whole of the war, the total number of American and British soldiers did not exceed one million.

There have been a rising number of attacks on soldiers patrolling the creeks, a violent reminder of simmering tension in the oil rich but poverty - stricken south.

The terrorists» who were said to have numbered almost a hundred, reportedly started the attack by launching IEDS on positions of the troops and followed with shooting from different angles all in a bid to confuse the troops but the soldiers aware of the tactic, stood their ground and fought back gallantly.

Because the enemies of Assad are weakend, it is not necessary to have a large number of soldiers in foreign countries.

Field hospitals in Afghanistan are struggling to cope with the high numbers of injured soldiers requiring treatment, a report has found.

Large numbers of Gambians have fled their homes and soldiers from neighbouring Senegal have begun moving towards the borders amid a deepening political crisis.

With the federal budget sequester on and the Afghanistan war winding down, the numbers of soldiers assigned to the post and civilians working there is likely to decrease.

According to him, «the soldiers should come to give evidence and explain where and how they were instructed to rig the election, whether they were instructed to thumb print ballot papers or they were instructed to snatch ballot boxes; how many of such ballot papers they thumb - printed and the number of boxes they snatched.»

In one scenario, there would be straight reductions in the number of soldiers and civilian military employees.

The number of Commonwealth soldiers serving in the British Army has risen sharply over the past decade, from around 400 in 2000 to 6,000 in 2007 (source: BBC).

The number of soldiers assigned to Fort Drum steadily increased from 6,711 in 1987 (three years after the base was activated) to a peak of 19,978 in 2011, according to Army officials.

So far about 45 dead bodies were evacuated by the braved vigilantes and volunteers numbering five hundred with assistance of handful of soldiers...

Trump did not disclose the specific numbers of additional soldiers he would like to send to Afghanistan, or offer any specific deadlines for action.

The Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help struggling soldiers, but numbers show these efforts have done little to stop the 22 veterans who commit suicide every day.

Changes in the number of soldiers based at Fort Drum in northern New York from fiscal year 1987 to fiscal year 2015.

Two years ago the number of soldiers in the Army was at its highest since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Officials with the Jefferson County Economic Development organization attribute that to a number of factors, including a rise in the number of soldiers and their families who are staying in the area because of an increase in local housing.

Citizens, soldiers and governments alike tried to grasp the sheer immense numbers of combatants and materièl involved.

He left the majority of his soldiers, who numbered in the tens of thousands, camped outside the town.

New vegetable - based materials absorb and release heat an unlimited number of times — with applications not just in beverages, but in keeping infants warm and soldiers cool.

After Bush administration officials raised concerns about the large number of soldiers returning from Iraq as upper - limb amputees, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) shelled out $ 130 million to develop its Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program.