Sentences with phrase «on military power»

As Vladislav Zubok shows, Brezhnev, who epitomised a highly traditional view of security, based on military power and territorial defence, had also become convinced of the need to limit the cost of the arms race.

The government is democratically elected but by putting nationalism above morality and international legality, and by relying on military power to subjugate another people, it is in danger of drifting towards fascism.

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

We are extremely uncomfortable about the fact that some countries who have confidence on their military power are using Syria as their arm - wrestling field,» he said.

Not exact matches

The Chinese government is developing AI capabilities for both commercial and military objectives, and the implications on the global balance of power are significant.

It focuses on conventional U.S. military power as an instrument enabling state cooperation, so drones» smaller footprint becomes a political drawback.

According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

But his fragile grip on power will be tested again in the coming weeks when the Senate, where he has only a wafer - thin majority, votes on financing Italy's military presence in Afghanistan, a mission opposed by some leftist senators.

So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

He went on to explain that the military approach to power and wealth is very short - term oriented «because it literally kills your customer.»

The U.S. military's 15 - year focus on counterinsurgency during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed other military powers — in particular China — to produce new equipment and modernize its forces at a rate that has Pentagon leaders concerned.

Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria's civil war will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground.

Putin's strength rests on the fact that he represents the interests of well - organized power groups, including the secret police and the military, says Andrei Korobkov, a politics professor at Middle Tennessee State University.

Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray said that to undermine the US's military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe, China was using methods relying on more than just its state institutions.

But to many Republicans, he's an unreliable ally who is often at odds with traditional conservative ideology on drug policy (he's for medical marijuana), foreign intervention (he opposes most military actions) and government surveillance (he thinks more checks are needed on federal power).

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

The report — «Power Surge: How the DoD Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases» — is the third in a series of influential studies issued since 2011 by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.

The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states using their military and economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.

On taking power he purged opponents in the military, security forces, and the State industrial and energy sectors, beneficiaries of the previous decade.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

China's worrisome military build - up may get most of the attention, but many other Asian countries have launched military modernization programs, moving from an emphasis on defending borders to the ability to project power externally.

While the attack did take out several military positions and research facilities linked to chemical weapons, it had little effect on degrading Assad's power to wage further war on rebel factions.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

«Since 1945,» he writes, «Americans have insisted on acquiring and maintaining military supremacy, a «preponderance of power» in the world rather than a balance of power with other nations.»

Which is at least a bit strange, in that it was an artifact produced by the much - deplored military - industrial complex» the photographs of Planet Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo VIII on their Christmas 1968 circumnavigation of the moon» that gave the new environmentalism its icon and something of its emotional power.

Too often we've used the technological, economic, and even military power of Christendom to push Christian ideas on people.

In 1967 the Christians in the Muslim country begin to immigrate, escaping the prosecutions, the Muslim were glade to see the natives leaving, but they realized that if they would move in large numbers to the USA, Canada and Europe, they will have larger control of the world, the technology and military power and eventually they can force their believe and convert the world, they are now hear, and successfully working on their plan and some day they will master their missions..

On the one hand, there is a strong resistance to the use of military power, rising in some Roman Catholic documents and papal statements to a «presumption against war» and the suggestion that recourse to military power is always bad.

This report is the third of a three - part series on Israel by Editor James M. Wall: Israel has found itself in the uncomfortable role of an occupying military power, controlling the lives of a large population of Palestinian Arabs.

It is worthwhile to recall that the first exercise of U.S. military power well beyond its borders was the repression of piracy by the Barbary Pirates on the high seas — not an interstate conflict at all.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Our wealth and military power produce affability on the world's face and curses in its heart.

On the other hand, they serve the political, military and economic powers that be and operate as consultants to them as well as accepting invitations to generalize from scientific research to political and social philosophies — blinkered mandarins, speaking as if they were wise.

It is easier to imagine him sitting on the edge of Moscow, and on the edge of Washington, and on the edge of Beijing and Johannesburg and Tel Aviv and Baghdad, and all other seats of military power, and weeping: «If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!»

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

Jerome Wiesner and H. F. York in a widely discussed article in Scientific American conclude that the present situation is characterized by increasing military power and decreasing national security on the part of the major powers.

It was only when temporal power failed to protect innocent people that he resorted to raising an army, consulting with generals on military strategy, instructing ambassadors to the king, and negotiating a separate peace.

Ditto on the relations between military power and diplomacy and between race and a just economic system.

He came to power in June 2014, after the revolution of Egypt's people against former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, calling on the military for the termination of the devastating tenure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime.

You recall that the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the exclusive state monopoly for radio and television, had the night before run an American Defense Department film version of their latest report on «Soviet Military Power,» with Secretary Casper Wineberger issuing dire warnings as animated hammer - and - sickle emblems marched menacingly down the coast of Africa.

While military supremacy may discourage predator powers and military weakness encourage them, national influence suspended only on military advantage is tenuous at best.

India should replace its dependence on Iranian oil through cooperation with America in nuclear - power production and cease its dependency on Russian airframe technology by buying advanced American military aircraft.

Christianity was the major religion involved in the conquest of the americas and it rose to power in rome by preaching military success would stem from putting crosses on the roman shields.

The South fired first, on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln took immediate action under his constitutional powers as president and military commander in chief.

There are treaties and treatises out there that inform efforts to articulate what constitutes international law, but there is no world legislature out there, and there is no court with the power to issue decisions to any country in the world that will be observed without the use of military force on a wide array of issues.

It has no military power whatsoever, so it seems to me they can only rely on the country where the crime is happening.

This decision, coupled with lack of active participation by another Sunni Non-Arab power Turkey in the alliance against Shias, caused huge outrage in Gulf countries who saw it as Pakistanis and Turks abandoning them in front of Iranian advances as Gulf nations have long relied on the military muscle of these two Sunni majority countries.

Ministers have ruled the UK must rely more on «soft power» than military might to shape the world we want.

He told the meeting, organised by the Centre on International Cooperation think tank, that the focus should shift from «hard» military and economic means to values and ideas, or so - called «soft» power.