Sentences with phrase «own army»

«These days, you're fighting an army of computers.»

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was set for sentencing on Oct. 23 after pleading guilty last week to abandoning his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009.

The major newspapers and news services of the world have been hacked by politically motivated armies of the virtual universe with increasing frequency.

Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

Saying newspapers made the wrong choice by moving to digital is like debating the strategic choices of the Polish army in late 1939.

Datagram, an ISP whose Manhattan servers host BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Gawker — which all briefly went offline yesterday — was completely flooded, and waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to assist in pumping out the water.

British Army Captain Edward Hulse captured some of the now - famous halt in hostilities — which he called «the most extraordinary Christmas in the trenches you could possibly imagine» — in letters to his mother.

To test the principle I decided to learn three simple guitar riffs: Smoke on the Water, 7 Nation Army, and Iron Man.

These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

«The Duke of Wellington said that the mere appearance of Napoleon Bonaparte at the head of his army translated into the equivalent of an additional forty thousand men,» the book continues.

In the 241 years since the US declared independence from the English in 1776, the uniforms of those serving in the US Army have changed drastically.

The US Eighth Army said the missile firings were a show of force meant to demonstrate US - South Korean solidarity.

Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, the military judge overseeing Bergdahl's case, had ruled in February that Trump's statements as a candidate (and, therefore, a private citizen) didn't rise to the level of undue command influence.

Most soldiers actually deploying to Korea would have over four months in the Army and so would've received a pay bump to at least $ 83.20, about $ 747.64 today.

In total, the Germany army lost 92,000 - 100,000 troops while the Soviets lost 81,116.

Last December, Reuters reported that more than 20 bodies donated to an Arizona broker were used in U.S. Army blast experiments - without the consent of the deceased or next of kin.

It takes a darker turn when both sides of that rivalry have an army ready to kill and die at their command.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Family members learned of the 2012 and 2013 experiments not from the Army but from a Reuters reporter who obtained records about what happened.

ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.

There are between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender service members actively serving in the US army, the RAND report noted.

By the 1860s, moustaches were finally compulsory for all the Armed Forces and they became as much an emblem for the Armed Forces as the Army uniform.

Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies against each other during the American Civil War, but they weren't always enemies.

In an Oct. 4 letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the branch nullify the military commission of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, the West Point graduate, Afghanistan combat veteran, and self - identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America who posted photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform and a «Communism Will Win» sign tucked into his cover on Sept. 24.

The US Army said the joint exercise with South Korea countered what it called «North Korea's destabilizing and unlawful actions on July 4.»

Despite frequent inspections and the armies of auditors enlisted in this cause, labor abuses and poor working conditions have continued to stain the fashion industry.

But US Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the US - led coalition fighting Islamic State, told reporters the drone meant to attack them and dismissed the possibility it had fired a warning shot.

The Battle of Verdun lasted from Feb. 21 — Dec. 18, 1916, between the armies of France and the German Empire.

While Army private pay in the Spanish - American War was still $ 13 like it had been in the Civil War, a period of deflation had strengthened the purchasing power of that monthly salary.

Marc Ambinder is a contributing editor for GQ and the co-author, with writer and former U.S. Army paratrooper D.B. Grady, of The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army.

A veteran U.S. Army pilot becomes an expert financial navigator with the help of Warren Buffett.

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

General Stanley McChrystal (U.S. Army, Retired) led the covert Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008, developing and implementing a strategy that changed how counterterrorism warfare was being conducted.

All transgender people considered for service are subject to the same entry standards as any other candidate, and are treated as an individual of their acquired gender, according to the British Army's website.

The most gut - wrenching part of the AMA comes when two teen neighbors who had just joined the Army were sent closer to the site of the explosion:

The German army, led by Fedor von Bock, Gerd von Rundstedt, and the famed Heinz Guderian, continued their spearhead towards Moscow but Hitler reconsidered.

Traditional television is under fire from an army of competitors, but occasionally there is a moment that shows the true power of network TV

There is an army of young people like Bosche waiting to build things.

In February, Lieutenant - General Patrick Sanders, Commander Field Army, praised the inclusion of LGBT personnel in the British Army, whom he said made the Army «stronger and more effective.»

The reason for this was that Kiev was third largest city with a large concentration of Soviet forces with likely more than 627,000 Red Army troops facing the German onslaught.

In that spirit, the US Army has distributed reading recommendations so soldiers and civilians alike are able «to sharpen their knowledge of the Army's long and distinguished history, as well as the decisive role played by landpower in conflicts across the centuries.»

Image courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Zayna Khayat, senior adviser for Health System Innovation at MaRS, uses the analogy of pharmaceutical companies» armies of salespeople.

Film and television stars, on the other hand, employ an army of public relations professionals tasked with ensuring their clients are seen as «normal» by the general population.

In either case, we're paying a monthly fee to fund an army of developer geeks in Silicon Valley and customer service reps in India who waste our time fixing problems that wouldn't be a problem if the company just delivered what was originally promised.

Here are six tips for turning happy customers into an army of brand advocates: 1.

While many of the Sunnis who switched sides in the Sunni awakening had American blood on their hands, they could at least be said to have been fighting against what they viewed as an invading army.

May said she would unleash an «army of carpenters» to retrofit buildings that leak warm air in the winter, and require occupants to blast their air conditioners in the summer.

The Army is even designing computerized sights — the Ballistically Optimized Sniper Scope (BOSS)-- for snipers.

The company has recruited a volunteer army of decidedly manly men to champion its products.