Sentences with phrase «than any soldier in»

It's no different than any soldier in the armed forces.

Not exact matches

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

That soldiers of all the armies kept fighting in the horrible trenches, often with a vigor that post-moderns find incomprehensible and more than a little distressing, says something about the human animal that needs discussion.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

This makeshift fighting force has a much greater interest in defeating the terrorist threat in the region than does its professional soldiering counterpart.

In the more than 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, between 2.5 and three million U.S. soldiers have served in active dutIn the more than 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, between 2.5 and three million U.S. soldiers have served in active dutin active duty.

But he's more in the modern image of a soldier / theorist than the bombastic Pattonesque stereotype of yore.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability to use positive mental skills to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity — contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience to achieve a competitive advantage, similar to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their family members to withstand challenges.4, 5

The company, which owns more than 1,500 apartment units in Greater Boston including nearly 1,000 in Allston - Brighton, acquired a new 19,250 - square - foot headquarters at 1200 Soldiers Field Road from Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. on May 24 for $ 3.8 million.

Purple Shovel's subcontractors managed to find rocket - propelled grenades made by a Bulgarian company, but they'd been manufactured in 1984 and sitting in warehouses longer than many soldiers had been alive.

There could be very little better than for our soldiers to voluntarily participate in an event that promotes and encourages faith in Jesus Christ.

By the time an armistice halted the Korean War in 1953, nearly 37,000 U.S. troops had been killed and more than 400,000 North Koreans soldiers were dead, according to the U.S Department of Defense.

And I'm pretty sure that praying for victory in battle is more about being a better soldier than it is about tilting the tables in my favor.

«In Israel, there is more courage in one soldier than in the cold heart of every bureaucrat at the U.N.&raquIn Israel, there is more courage in one soldier than in the cold heart of every bureaucrat at the U.N.&raquin one soldier than in the cold heart of every bureaucrat at the U.N.&raquin the cold heart of every bureaucrat at the U.N.»

If I accept once again that Catholicism has all the answers, then it is likely that I will have to do violence to certain elements in my nature — the conviction, for instance, that all life is one, or that it is better to have polygamy than the starving widows of soldiers begging in the streets.

Being a good soldier is probably the one trait that has caused me more misery in my life than anything else.

More than 3 million U.S. soldiers were deployed in Vietnam.

Rather than moved around to fend off attacks, it was planted in front of the soldier, and sometimes fixed in the ground.

A prisoner who destroys an enemy fortress, killing himself in the process, is not committing suicide, any more than a soldier who falls on a grenade to save his battalion is committing suicide.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

On November 4, 1983, a member of a Muslim suicide squad attacked an Israeli compound in southern Lebanon with a truck bomb, killing more than 60 soldiers, The following day Israeli fighter planes bombed the base from which the truck might have come.

Yet some of those soldiers today, carrying on in civil life with broken health, shattered nerves, lost limbs, need more courage than it took to see them through at St. Mihiel.

I doubt that wars are «God's Will» but soldiers do not incur God's wrath for serving in the military, since, in this «less than perfect world», nationalistic aggression must be kept in check.

The church becomes one more dehumanising «thing» (seeing people as things called sinners, or bums on pews, or soldiers in the work of the church, or worship leaders, or whatever) more concerned with making sure the church / congregation / denomination survives than with seeing the individuals live.

In war it's ususally plenty of innocent civilian life, sometimes way more than the soldiers doing the fighting.

This is surprising, since more than 140,000 soldiers of Irish birth served in the Union armies (with perhaps 40,000 on the Confederate side), the vast majority of them Catholic.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

I have found the most effective way to deal with fear is in the company of a compatible companion (someone other than my wife, she has her own ministry) This is why the first disciples went out 2 × 2 and law enforcement people have a partner and soldiers have a buddy or wingman.

It trained more than two thousand men in its military academy for service in the armed forces and organized visiting committees in the northwest to give medical aid and comfort to wounded soldiers and officials.

In the past twelve years of intense struggle, more than 36,000 have been killed, including «terrorist» freedom fighters, as well as soldiers, police, and civilians.

More children are killed by war lords in Afghansitan and gangs in Somalia than are filled by US soldiers.

In fact, on this third picture, you can see that this wounded soldier suffers from a stab rather than a cut.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)-- Israel's government approved an extraordinary deal Tuesday night - agreeing to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis, in exchange for a single slender young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Fry and Rostow reported that, based on evidence in service records, hom - ose - xuals were no better or worse than other soldiers and that many «performed well in various military jobs» including combat (Berube, 1990, pp. 170 - 171, footnotes omitted).

libyan tnc that obama put in power are the ones who fought american soldiers in iraq and have more blood in their hands than qaddafi ever had and would have had.

This soldier is both courageous and right, and anything other than that (ie bow your head in shame) is pathetic.

Infamous as the Kalashnikov assault rifle, this weapon has killed more American soldiers since 1952 than any other weapon in the world.

To tell the Story through the language and categories of football would in all likelihood be no less profitable than St. Paul's attempt to liken the Christian disciple to a Roman soldier or the early missionaries» attempt to portray Christ as a divine tribal chieftain or the rock generation's creation of Jesus Christ Superstar.

In his response, serious and detailed, almost paternal, if not quite episcopal or pontifical, Luther said he wished to move out to war spiritually with our earnest prayers, to join with the dear Emperor Charles and his soldiers» — he still thought Charles V ill - advised rather than perverse.

Better to spit in his face with the Roman soldiers than ignore him.»

Indeed, you could argue that Jesus» entire life — from being born in a barn in the midst of a genocide, to hanging out with prostitutes and drunks, to healing on the Sabbath and touching the untouchables, to riding into Jerusalem on donkey rather than a war horse, to healing the ear of a Roman soldier after it had been cut off by Jesus» allies — was a stinging indictment of religious and political power.

We serve proudly in the Israel Defense Forces — as do those soldiers who choose, out of conscience, to sit in a military prison rather than serve in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today.

I am not lessened by those that do not believe what i believe, i served this country and spent a year in Iraq, many of my fellow soldiers were Christian but i served beside Atheists, mormons, Catholics, wiccans, Jews, even a satanist, yes a satanist, and guess what, we were friends, I cared deeply for them and they for me, These were the guys that protected me so i could sleep, my life was in their hands and theirs in mine... I think you all have a very bad idea of what a Christian is, i think you have no idea what you're talking about when you judge us all as a religion... you need to get out of your house and off of your computer chair and learn what people are really about... Maybe then you will understand Humanity rather than just secularizing everybody and hating them... you are sad people, yet my beliefs teach me to pray for you, and hope that you come to reason...

As for the Mexican War, «the deadliest that the United States has ever fought»» one in ten American soldiers died in less than two years of service» Howe makes a persuasive case that it was provoked by Anglo settlers with the connivance of the Polk administration as part of a cynical scheme to take California and the Southwest from Mexico.

You are certainly no better than those nutcases up in Kansas who picket the funerals of fallen soldiers.

Likewise, the Palestinians «suffer more casualties than Israelis not because... they are somehow more moral» but because they are not as adept in fighting real soldiers in the full «fledged war that is growing out of their own intifada.»

As military historian Victor Davis Hanson has noted, «Hitler, Tojo, Kim Il Sung, and Ho Chi Minh... all lost more soldiers» and civilians» in their wars against us than we did.»