Sentences with phrase «soldier after a battle»

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The Germans proposed trading Yakov for Field Marshal Paulus, who was captured after the Battle of Stalingrad, but Stalin refused, saying he would never trade a field marshal for a regular soldier.

Veteran R.J. Lugo Jr. spent 22 years in the Army, saw four combat tours, and lost dozens of his fellow soldiers in battle or to suicide after they came home.

You are «a good soldier» for the rebels, now: beating against a a section of seemingly dead institution which nevertheless apparently holds great influence of a manipulative and brainwashing kind — still caught up in the battle like Libyans after Gaddafi: shooting side arms and even heavy artillery up in the air out of car windows and trucks in victory and defiance.

«This is not a democracy after all, but a monarchy, and I am engaged in battle; and soldiers — all of my soldiers — are at my disposal.

«How wonderful to be able to see him,» Gersten said earlier this week, each word laced with the kind of anticipation a soldier coming home after battle feels.

It was the returning soldiers from the South African Boer War that gave a very steep bank behind one of the goals the nickname, «the Spion Kop», named after a famous battle appertaining to that war

Publisher biteback Biteback said the book would cover the battle for Brexit, from the «massing of the UKIP foot soldiers after the general election and the squabbling of the various Leave groups, to the arrival of the cabinet cavalry after Cameron's Brussels deal and the dramatic final weeks fought on battle buses and in TV studios».

The media had been awash with news that about 100 Nigerian soldiers were missing after Boko Haram attacks in the epicenter of the battle.

WASHINGTON — Historical accounts of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn report that many of Gen. George Custer's 7th Cavalry soldiers shot themselves to avoid being killed by Native American warriors after the crushing defeat.

As for whether we should, today, be equipping soldiers with Tetris games to play immediately after battle, Holmes told LiveScience, «Not until we do clinical trials first.»

The annals of military history are filled with tales of soldiers who kept slaughtering well after the battle was over.

After battling an army of Urukai soldiers, Doctor Strange makes his way to the Tower Isengard.

There are many (far too many) well executed battle scenes, including one stunt with a jeep full of soldiers getting hit with a Molotov cocktail and catching fire that is pretty damn shocking, but after a while, with no clear tension or character objective, these scenes become tiresome.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Set to be directed by Doug Liman, this long brewing project is an adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that follows a soldier in an alien war who finds himself living his last day in battle over and over again after being caught in a time loop, becoming a better soldier along the way.

«It's clear from Avengers: Infinity War's final act that Wakanda will never be the same again after the Battle of Wakanda and the tragic loss of the Wakandan people and their king, T'Challa... Wakanda will have had to soldier on without its king, and that means other prominent figures will have had to step up in T'Challa's place.

He arrives in Dunkirk after the battle, where 300,000 soldiers wait for ships to take them home, to observe soldiers shooting horses and to overhear talk that the wounded will be left behind.

After choosing from four difficulty levels and whether or not you prefer to have tutorial explanations for game mechanics peppered throughout, you are introduced to the combat part of the game, which involves commanding up to six soldiers in turn - based battles against some extremely smart alien A.I., with percentages, multipliers and RNG determining your success rate.

This led to him squaring off against Captain America and the other anti-registration heroes in a battle of ideological differences, an the ending him emotionally scarred after discovering that Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) killed his parents.

Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth - century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years» War, is forced to retire from the army.

Darkest of Days puts you in the role of Alexander Morris, a Civil War soldier serving under General George Custer, who is plucked from the Battle of Little Bighorn by a group of time travelers moments after catching an arrow to the crotch and watching your General die.

I thought that it was really unique — after all, it's good to be playing a first - person shooter where your character isn't a «tough guy» battling a whole bunch of aliens — but rather, a doctor battling his way through hostile soldiers that shot his ship down, and he must rescue his infected patient before an infection spreads.

After anxious waiting and multiple teasers, EA has announced, in London, the latest Battlefield title, Battlefield 1 The latest game takes place during WWI, and follows soldiers into battles that changed the course of history forever.

This trailer teases a single player campaign that seems to take place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, where it looks like you'll be playing as a soldier of the Empire (pictured above) after the fall of the Emperor and the Battle of Endor.

Here my journey begins, facing hollow soldiers who continue defending their fortress long after the battle that destroyed their battlement.

After exhorting a group of defenseless refugees to join the fight, he arms them, stirs them to battle... and then watches as they die, shot by enemy soldiers, or falling to their deaths in a massive platform collapse.

America's obsession with the Civil War has never dulled; year after year living history reenactors take to the historic battlefields to commemorate famous battles between Yankee and Confederate soldiers.