Sentences with phrase «of shore leave»

After our rigorous adventures in potty training this week (aka Butt Camp), I decided the troops needed a few hours of shore leave.

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The marines don't know what awaits them on shore, but they are confident that six hours of planning and preparing have left them better equipped to face it than most military units would be after six months.

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

Archbishop Seraphim of Peraeus said: «Adolf Hitler was an instrument of world Zionism and was financed from the renowned Rothschild family with the sole purpose of convincing the Jews to leave the shores of Europe and go to Israel to establish the new Empire.»

To the north, eager settlers could leave from Albany, New York, travel to Buffalo, and follow the shores of the Great Lakes.

As every sailor knows, shore leave is the most dangerous part of any cruise.

But many would leave for other shores: to Australia and Brazil, but especially to the United States of America.

A little farther along the shore another pair of brothers, James and John, hear the same summons while mending their nets with their father Zebedee, and they too respond with alacrity, leaving their father with his hired helpers to carry on their trade.

In 2008, I left the shores of England.

Why look far we have two in the team already JW and HM, as I said before if he (Ozil) don't sighn soon I think Henrikh Mkhitaryan should start ahead of Ozil for the rest of the season along side Jack, im shore if Ozil is leaving AW would know by now and bench him, Ozil should be told it's in the intrest of the club he would understand

There is one slight surprise for Arsenal fans in the starting line up of Arsene Wenger today, although the use of our England international left back Kieran Gibbs in a more advanced role on front of the Spaniard Nacho Monreal has been tried before and with a fair amount of success, although it is normally a move made by the manager to shore things up at the end of a game.

The hilarious thing is you've left schez in the side who for me would be one of the first postions I'd try and shore up.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

The French youngster left the English shores frustrated with his lack of opportunities and in search of first - team football in the summer of 2012.

That we should come back home and play for Liberty Professionals before we retire because we really didn't have a feel of the Ghana league before leaving the shores of Ghana to play in Europe.»

At 1 - 1, Man City were 3 points clear at the top of Group A. Roberto Mancini decided a point was enough and decided to shore up the heavily under - pressure defence by bringing on Vincent Kompany for Milner, switching Zabaleta to right midfield and Johnson to the left.

«Many believe it reacted with the speed and alacrity of a sailor drunk on shore leave».

Labour's Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Bank of England may have to intervene to shore up the pound, which lost 3 % within moments of the first result showing a strong result for Leave in Sunderland and fell as much as 6.5 % against the euro.

Despite this policy of temporary leave, children still make their desperate journeys to arrive at UK shores.

A bonus for Democrats is that gubernatorial nominee J.B. Pritzker is heavily funding his own campaign, leaving pro-Democratic outside groups able to devote their money and time to shoring up control of the legislature.

Few days after taking over, the United Nations cautioned Ghana about hooliganism and vigilantism, the world bank continue to downgrade us, corruption has increased according to Transparency International's latest report, Ghana has been rated down by Amnesty International because of brutalities being unleashed on journalists, investors are leaving our shores etc..

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to shore up his support from the left with an email from the state Democratic committee that promotes a rally with Empire State Indivisible, a group that arose after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.

But it's presumably an outcome Cuomo wants by the spring, as he runs for a third term and is seeking to shore up support liberals amid the rumblings of primaries or the threat of a general election candidate running to his left.

«Bethlehem Steel, which of course operated along the shores of Lake Erie until 1983 and then closed up shop, and what they left behind is quite a mess,» Dixon said.

It is 95 days today since the president, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, left the shores of our country for medical vacation in the UK.

«Brexit is Brexit,» May announced, attempting to shore up her support among Leave voters wary of her Remain credentials.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has worked over the last several years to shore up support from the left after a first term accomplishments that include caps on spending in the budget, limits to local property tax increases and other methods of fiscal restraint following the recession.

The US is trying to shore up what's left of the international drugs consensus, while watching its own states legalise cannabis.

Today you go on a computer, you can do this in Singapore or London, if you put a tax in New York that doesn't exist in the rest of the world, you are going to see trading not just leave the state, but it will leave the country and go off shore,» Pataki said.

As the other candidates desperately try to shore up their Left flanks, the Tories are taking careful note of everything they say.

Both ladies have been combining football and education since leaving the shores of Ghana to ply their trade in the States.

He lamented that majority of the current political party leaders grew or learn politics under the military arrangement, saying that those who knew what the military did have left the shore of political leadership.

«Some of the money had left the shores of this country and we have written the foreign countries from here,» he said.

Cuomo's recent actions could help him shore up his left leaning Democratic base of voters.

Collins blames the Plan 2014 that left the south shore of Lake Ontario in danger of historic erosion.

Labour's corresponding decline has not been as sharp, and its share of the vote is now shored up by the post-2010 exodus of centre - left Liberal Democrat voters, a reverse of the SDP effect 30 years ago.

MyNewsGh.com earlier reported that Ghana Football Association (GFA) officials are leaving the shores of Ghana on panic over the latest Anas Armeyaw Anas exposé in which quite a number of them have been allegedly fingered for some form of dubious conduct in one way or the other.

Sports News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Kwesi Nyantakyi, president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi has rubbished claims that top officials of his organization have started leaving the shores of Ghana in anticipation of an expose titled Number 12, by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

For the moment, the beaches of Antarctica are the most pristine scene I have seen on the planet, but that could change; [the] more boats that go down, the more people arrive with plastic bags and other paraphernalia that blows off the boat or gets left lying on the shore — that will change things.

Given the cities» historical trade networks, researchers believe that this high incidence of the normally rare mutation resulted from a few polydactyl merchant - ship cats taking shore leave as far back as the mid-18th century.

A German expedition under Lieut. Wilhelm Filchner left early in the year 1911, intending to make a landing somewhere on the shore of the Weddell Sea, perhaps on Coats Land, on the opposite side of the Antarctic Continent from Capt. Scott's headquarters.

It is thus not difficult to see how early hominins could have ranged across south - east Europe and well as Africa, and left their footprints on a Mediterranean shore that would one day form part of the island of Crete.

So a tropical cyclone that passes to the left (or west) of the bulk of the oil spill would push it closer to shore, while one that passes to the right (or east) would push it further out to sea.

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

Globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and surfed the waves to shore, leaving the high - water line littered with thousands of sticky balls of fish

ON 17 March 2007, the bar - tailed godwit known to science as E7 spread her wings and took flight, leaving the northern shores of New Zealand behind her.

The wave also damaged a marine research station operated by the University of Concepción in Dichato, a fishing town about 50 kilometers from the city, and left its research vessel stranded several blocks from shore, according to Carlos Moffat, an oceanography professor at the university.

Two samples of Ulva spp., that were deployed near shore on Maui, show large differences due to growth in coastal waters that have either high (left) or low (right) levels of SGD - derived nitrogen.

If an ocean once lapped at the rusty shores and cliffs of Mars, it left no clear traces of an ancient coastline on the planet's surface.