Sentences with phrase «of the armed forces do»

Members of the armed forces do not normally include nontaxable pay, such as combat pay, in their earned income when calculating the Earned Income Credit.

Members of the armed forces do not have to meet these tests if the move was due to a permanent change of station.

Members of the armed forces do not have to pay taxes on income received while they are on duty in an area designated as a combat zone.

Response: We note that the military comprises a unique society and that members of the Armed Forces do not have the same freedoms as do civilians.

Not exact matches

The company now caters to a variety of Armed Forces branches, as well as the Department of Defense, but Lexicon didn't land their first big contract on day one.

«We did not have anything,» says Gen. Riho Terras, the commander of Estonia's armed forces, who had been a student activist at the time.

* Due to rounding, percents do not equal 100: 0.6 percent of Americans are out of the workforce for another reason or in prison and 0.5 percent are in the Armed Forces or in a nursing home.

The member of the Armed Forces argues that, while the Chinese must make a profit, he doesn't.

If they can't conform to standards of equality and non-discrimination, or respecting the liberties of an individual, then I don't want them... we don't need NCOs or Officers or leaders in our armed forces to continue to disgrace the uniform.

«Don't ask, don't tell» will be dismantled as the policy of our armed forces.

I am very aware of what a chaplain's role is, and — even in our own US armed forces — the role of a Christian chaplain is to do what any other Christian minister would do: give them Jesus.

Yet it does not prohibit the tax exemption of churches, or the employment by the federal government of chaplains for the armed forces.

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

In the debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s some moralists made a distinction between «war,» which they understood as having to do with state uses of armed force for their own interests, and intervention by military force for humanitarian purposes, which they regarded as altruistic and not «war.»

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

What, to get down to cases, does it teach us about the proportionate and discriminate use of armed force in the pursuit of the peace of order, justice, and freedom?

Our armed forces represent a microcosm of society, so don't make generalizations based upon your own personal beliefs.

Some gave their confirmation as a result of bribery and some through fear, but Mu`awiya did not get even silent assent from Husain and some of the others until he brought them together in the presence of a heavily armed force and said to them, «When I ask you not to oppose my son as my successor, you must be silent; otherwise all of you will be killed.»

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

«It is because the legion's committee recognised that people from different faiths served in the Armed Forces that we will be singing All People That On Earth Do Dwell instead of Onwards Christian Soldiers.

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.

A tertiary reason had to do with scaling down the armed forces after World War II and keeping veterans out of the labor force until it could expand sufficiently to absorb them.

Thozz - Would all of the hundreds who joined the Armed Forces just after 911 have chosen to do so even if we weren't attacked?

I don't think that biblically a woman should be the commander - in - chief of the armed forces.

Bruggeman argues that the prophet does not contend against such entities with arms and use of force, but with the much more powerful weapon of imagination and creativity.

They did not prioritize defense against armed attack, and certainly did not define just cause in terms of such self - defense, reflecting Augustine's conception of just war [as one in which] a Christian might justifiably use force to protect an innocent neighbor against harm.

Nevertheless, movement in a circle is the most «natural» movement; and the long arm of the lever, moving, as it does, in the larger circle, has the greater amount of this natural motion, and consequently requires the lesser force.

Rocking this uniform in High School and then getting a million deferrments to the actual military shows a tremendous amount of repsect for our arm forces, its like dressing up as a Ninja Turtle for Holloween and then never taking a shit in a toilet ever again because you do nt want to pollute their environment.

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.

He doesn't just use those elbows to create distance, sometime these elbows have a lot of force on them, to the point he'll fully extend his arms.

Emancipation does not, however, necessarily mean «legal majority,» and may be granted earlier in instances where the minor can demonstrate they are at least sixteen years old; are living apart from the parents with their consent or acquiescence; able to manage their own finances and have a legal source of income; actively serve in a branch of the armed forces; or other reason the court may determine it in the best interest of the child to make a judicial declaration of emancipation.

The Speech of Opposition leader, Aitzaz Ahsan from Pakistan People's Party on 5th day of the very heated debate on the matter can be watched here (In urdu language) in which he blasted the Government's ambigious stance and the proposal to send Armed forces to a war which Pakistani people did not feel was theirs.

«By trying to suppress this report, the prime minister has demonstrated that he cares more about the reputation of Labour than he does about the well - being of the armed forces,» he said.

Defence minister Derek Twigg said: «I'd like to reassure members of our armed forces and their families, that ministers are committed to doing all we can to provide good quality housing.

The source cited notes... «there can be other non-combatant members of the armed forces... Germany... «persons who are members of the armed forces but do not have any combat mission, such as judges, government officials and blue - collar workers, are non-combatants».

«The negative comments therefore being circulated intended to downplay the efforts in promoting troops welfare by government is in bad state and does not augur for the cohesion of the Ghana Armed Forces.»

In a sense, what the Junta under General Leopoldo Galtieri did through the force of arms in 1982, the current civilian government is attempting to do in 2012 through diplomacy — to unite the people around a consensus issue, looking outwards, away from the problems within the country.

Greens have introduced a bill to ensure the power to declare war and deploy armed forces does not rest only with the executive of the government of the day.

«I feel very strongly that members of the British armed forces must at all times behave in accordance with the law, and if they do not due process must follow,» he said.

On December 22, 2010, Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which fulfilled a key promise made in the 2008 presidential campaign [214][215] to end the Don't ask, don't tell policy of 1993 that had prevented gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces.

Philippa Bursey, BASC's director of business management, said: «As a national organisation we wanted to show that we recognise and appreciate what our armed forces do for our country.»

Britain did not give America its independence; the American colonists demanded it and won it by force of arms.

The theme for the 2016 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, «Motivating the Nigerian Armed Forces for Effective Service Delivery», the President said is a special one which was carefully chosen to appreciate the landmark achievement of the gallant troops in the North East and would as well reassure Nigerians that the Armed Forces is committed to doing all in its power towards the return of peace to troubled areas in our nation.

«I will do everything I can to remind the British people about the sacrifices and make sure it is not forgotten,» he pledged, outlining his admiration for the «extraordinary young men and women» of the armed forces.

He even managed to get them to applaud the nation's social workers at one stage, and although they didn't give them the lengthy standing ovation that thundered praise for the armed forces, it seems some of the PM's touchy feely stuff still resonates.

The Armed Forces were already aware of the restraints, and what they were allowed to do, Fallon said, adding that the last thing they needed was more European law «enveloping the way they work».

This led to the threat by the head of the Armed Forces of Zimbabwe, General Constantino Chiwenga, that «the military will not hesitate to step in» when the issue had to do with protecting the «revolution.»

«The Nigerian Armed forces in my opinion are doing their best professionally and in the best interest of a united Nigeria.

More than a quarter (28 per cent) of people who left the armed forces early cited too many deployments as an important factor, 32 per cent named the quality of equipment and 33 per cent said they did not feel valued.

This is an entirely internal measure of whether a government equips its armed forces sufficiently to do the job.