Sentences with phrase «short of military action»
Argentina has applied intense pressure on the Falkland Islanders by means short of military action in recent months.
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This is the Trumpian Republican Party: skeptical of international agreements and with isolationist instincts while wanting to engage with enemies through «tough» talk and short - term military action.
Today's conference may also examine the possibility of a further UN resolution on Libya, replacing resolution 1973 which authorised military action short of a ground invasion to protect Libyan civilians.
The film's two major scenes of military conflict — the battle of Gaugamela, where Alexander's force of 40,000 bested the Persian King Dariussd III's 250,000 - strong army, and a third - act forest routing in India — are given short shrift and photographed in that jittery «you are there» un-StediCam-style that renders the action impenetrable.
The Losers, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name, was an all out action movie about a special - forces unit consisting of Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) who reluctantly join forces with a mysterious woman named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to stop a rogue CIA agent named Max (Jason Patric) who burned Clay's team during a covert military operation in Bolivia.
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His rooms are quite attractive, but he had a very short design career, doing some furniture and one building before he changed his name to Pierre Villon and became active in the French Communist Party and the resistance during the war, one of the three leaders of the Committee of Military action in the resistance, and after the war, a member of the French National Assembly continuously until 1978.