Sentences with phrase «rather than civilian»

So, there would be little benefit to be gained from suspending the writ of habeas corpus in order to allow the use of military tribunals rather than civilian courts to punish civilian participants in a coup.

Not exact matches

In college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topic.

Scientists campaigned successfully for civilian rather than military administration of atomic energy.

Rather than trying to create a false divide between the armed forces and civilian staff, the union called on the Conservatives and those criticising the pay arrangements to recognise that MoD staff and our armed forces are part of the same team.

Alter the Arak heavy water reactor to support civilian, rather than military, usage.

Taken together, the secret documents lead to the conclusion that Washington's 14 - year high - value targeting campaign suffers from an overreliance on signals intelligence, an apparently incalculable civilian toll, and — due to a preference for assassination rather than capture — an inability to extract potentially valuable intelligence from terror suspects.

Both Piedmonte and Fowler said the public information job should be held by a police officer rather than a salaried civilian.

«We may be able to improve outcomes in brain - injured soldiers and civilians,» he continues, «and reduce the length of their mandatory rest periods before returning to duty, making the difference between requiring only days rather than weeks or longer to recover.»

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

Such limitations would be solved if all data for civilian casualties were released at the level of individual events rather than aggregated monthly.

Salehi claims their deaths emboldened, rather than deterred, Iran's nuclear establishment, and insists that Iran's enrichment program was intended only to produce fuel for civilian power reactors.

Reservists, who go home to civilian life rather than staying within the military, were the hardest hit.

When nations acquire nuclear weapons, they usually develop dedicated facilities to produce fissile materials rather than collecting nuclear materials from civilian power plants.

Most men would rather walk over a bed of burning hot coals than tell a whether single civilian members army, our website.

Unlike most war movies, the events in Harrison's Flowers transpire through the eyes of civilians (rather than soldiers).

Quite how these men divided their time on the film remains a tight - lipped mystery for now, but being as both have significant sci - fi experience we have to assume it was a close collaboration rather than split down the middle (i.e. civilian and hero wear).

It uses a version of the 5.0 - liter V8 from the road - going RC F, tuned to produce over 500 horsepower, rather than the 467 hp civilians get.

But with the civilian labor force projected to grow at 0.5 % a year over the next decade, rather than 1.5 %, we should be pleased with growth above 2 % — which means 2014 and 2015 were actually pretty good years for the U.S. economy.

If you're a Hero, subdue enemies rather than killing them and heal wounded civilians to build your Karmic meter.

He explains that, where civilians have lost trust in the press, artists are often given social responsibility — but the filmmaker's interest is in «the hidden side of reality» rather than straight reportage.

If «civilian» members of the public wanted to put their thumbs on the scale, I think it would be much better to send letters to the individual members on the committee — rather than sending in official comments to the committee.

The most important one being that a library should now be called an «Information Resource Center, or IRC», at least at Orrick... That is a new one for me: I knew I had an administrative assistant rather than a secretary, I had heard about collateral damages rather than murdered civilians, etc. but I am a bit sad to have the good old libraries R.I.P.!

A female colleague pursued the allegation against criminology professor John Winterdyk via a private prosecution, a process that allows civilians to initiate charges rather than the usual procedure involving police and the Crown.

He has committed many of his most egregious war crimes strategically — sometimes to eliminate civilians who would rather die than live under his rule, sometimes to neuter an international order that occasionally threatens to limit his power, and sometimes, as with his use of chemical weapons, to accomplish both goals at once.

This includes having a headshot in professional business attire, rather than in military uniform, so that prospective employers understand you are not dwelling on the past, but are focused and passionate about what you can do for a civilian employer going forward.

The United States quickly learned that the most effective way to deal with the maintenance and support of high - tech weapons and communications systems was to depend on highly skilled civilian employees, rather than attempting to train fresh recruits — many of whom lacked necessary educational qualifications — to work on such systems.

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Just like civilians, military members must get divorced by state courts rather than military courts.