Sentences with phrase «of ordinary civilians»

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General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

Despite efforts in international law to distinguish between degrees of culpability with regard to politicians, generals and ordinary citizens, policies of direct attacks upon civilians continue to find a rationale in the identification of the citizen with the state — even if the ordinary citizen is both ignorant of and indifferent to affairs of state.

Yolanda Foster, Amnesty International's Sri Lanka expert, said: «Blurring the distinction between civilians and combatants means that thousands of ordinary people, desperate to flee the conflict area, are at greater risk of reprisals and getting caught in the crossfire.»

For a few precious days following an injury, all Iraqis at AFTH Balad — police, detainees, and ordinary civilians — will receive unparalleled medical services, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense.

We've seen hundreds of films about the Second World War, usually focussing on those on the front line, or the millions of minorities who lost their lives under the Nazi regime, yet films focussing on the ordinary German civilians seem to be few and far between.

Forster and his collaborators deserve credit for plunging us into the thick of things: the Lanes learn that society is collapsing when a seemingly ordinary urban traffic jam is jolted into surreality by an explosion, a stampede of terrified civilians and their vehicles, and a furious attack by people who've been infected by a virus that turns them into ravenous ghouls.

But will the Noah's Ark of the third millennium have any place for ordinary civilians who only wish to escape the second Flood?

Yes, it's a three - hour - long movie about ordinary people adjusting to civilian life after the end of World War II.

She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, but she soon discovers that Italy is anything but peaceful, as, overnight, it becomes an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.

Artists such as Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer were commissioned to reflect not only the front line, but all aspects of war as it was experienced by ordinary people, military or civilian.

I wonder if there would be a place for you or another / others to draft a «voice of ordinary concerned civilians» 3000 - word account of what makes ordinary folk collectively have a right to appeal as «interested parties».

In addition to this, when writing a federal resume you would have to add some personal details which would not be necessary on an ordinary civilian resume such as country of citizenship, age and other background prerequisites.