The conflicts here between the congressional Democrats (who oppose the amendment) and the Republicans (who were themselves fostering a shaky alliance between opposed internal camps) are only barely more civil
than the soldiers on the battlefields.
Not exact matches
There were a lot of people who thought the person who wrote the love song «Until It's Time For You To Go» should know better
than to follow it up with «Universal
Soldier»
on stage.
And when things get tough, wouldn't it be easier to
soldier on if you thought of yourself as earning one of these Scouts - inspired merit badges rather
than simply struggling through a trying time?
Gulen denies the accusations, but authorities have launched a crackdown
on his vast network of followers, removing or suspending more
than 60,000
soldiers, police, judges, teacher, diplomats and journalists.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
In fact,
on this third picture, you can see that this wounded
soldier suffers from a stab rather
than a cut.
I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating
on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster
than horses and fifty armed
soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes
on and
on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come
on!!
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).
I trivially found an article
on the web that completely supports the
soldier's position and claims that he was threatened with more
than just not being part of the graduation ceremony.
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.
It's times like these l so wish I was not in love with Arsenal but there's nothing I can do
than to
soldier on.
As many as 5,000 NVA
soldiers, 10 to 12 battalions, had massed in the jungles surrounding Ripcord, and by July 21 they were lobbing more
than 600 rounds a day
on the firebase, sending the deadliest salvos whenever U.S. helicopters whirled in with ammo and
soldiers raced for the helipad to carry the shells
on their shoulders up the hill.
The $ 156 million
Soldier Field reconstruction could drain more
than $ 13 million annually from Chicago parks to subsidize the Bears, depending
on how many dollars their rent and related revenues actually produce.
First let's take a look at the definition of the word Realpolitik: Politics based
on practical and material factors rather
than on theoretical or ethical objectives Under that definition there are two possible reasons: Avoiding a situation where European
soldiers / border guards shoot unarmed men, women and children Helping prevent further destabilization...
Governor Fayose said in a statement signed by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka that it was shameful that several people were killed in an election in Bayelsa State with eight Local Government areas in which more
than 20,000 security personnel, including
soldiers were deployed.
«Having worked
on the defence paper for over one year it would appear Ukip has more military and naval experts
than we have
soldiers.
He was killed along three other US
soldiers on Oct. 4 after his group was ambushed by more
than 50 Islamist militants.
The same Lincoln was protected by more
than 100 US
soldiers when he paid another surprise visit to Richmond
on April 4, 1865.
No fewer
than 144 ex-Maoist child
soldiers have been arrested by Nepal police following protests at the headquarters of their former party
on Tuesday, a spokesman for Kathmandu police office, disclosed.
«But if you're in a situation where 7,8, or 9,000 of them are deployed, the housing situation that you need is very different
than if there's around 17,000
soldiers, and most of them are home
on a regular basis.»
That means more state police, more national guard, and more
soldiers on duty
than ever before.
Cuomo said New Yorkers going to vote Tuesday will see «more state police, more National Guard, more
soldiers on duty
than ever before.»
The post in Jefferson County has a $ 1.6 billion annual impact
on the local economy, and employs about 3,800 civilians in addition to more
than 17,000
soldiers.
Scurvy was at one time common among sailors and others who were
on ships, whose ships were out to sea longer
than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored and by
soldiers who were similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.
Shen and her colleagues found that
soldiers who had scored in the bottom 5 % of mental health attributes
on the GAT prior to deployment were significantly more likely to show signs of depression or PTSD upon their return
than the other 95 %, they report today in BMC Psychology.
Reichel speculates that an army of a few hundred Uruk
soldiers marched
on Hamoukar but found the city harder to conquer
than anticipated.
interesting now
soldiers can sit in fortified bunkers and control robots from there and can save more lives
than actually fighting
on ground or field
These
soldiers» will to fight also depends
on identifying more closely with groups of like - minded comrades
than with biological kin, the team reports September 4 in Nature Human Behavior.
On average, the Australian big - headed ant
soldiers were three times more massive
than their equivalents in Hawaii, Wills said.
I think that if you can
soldier on and do your work and tend to your family, the time will pass more quickly,
than if you do what I do:
But true
soldiers never surrender)-RRB- Once I ran across the link to this site and decided that it may be funny and more effective
than chatting with French girls
on Facebook.
Still, even if Louie registers as more of a cypher - ish type of
soldier than a fragile individual, he's a non-hoo-ra, non-trigger-happy type we don't see enough of
on screen.
In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to
soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes
on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive
than her unwillingness to go gentle.
In 1971, during the height of the pitched battles between draftees in the British Army and groups of Catholics, we are led to understand that while many British
soldiers did not want to be fighting there, «oppressing» the Catholics, and
on the Catholic side were young radicals called provisionals that wanted no peace and nothing less
than pitching the Brits out versus the older moderates who believed in negotiations.
All of the lead actors were exactly what was needed: Chris Pine, soft
on the eyes, action hero, an average Joe in for more
than he bargained for, but a
soldier first and foremost; Keira Knightley, the pretty innocent who tags along, and then is
It's hard to shake the feeling that 12 Strong — based
on Doug Stanton's 2009 book Horse
Soldiers, about U.S. Special Forces troops who traveled to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 to confront Taliban forces — should add up to more
than it does.
MGS 2's premise — players take the role of a man who turns out to be little more
than a pawn in an attempt to create super
soldiers by simulating Snake's adventure in Metal Gear Solid — is fascinating, but it also means that
on many levels this is just a rehash of the previous game... which in itself amounted to a 3D recreation of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
Published in Chicago Tribune
on June 05, 2016 — Print headline: «The power of belonging - In his latest book «Tribe,» Sebastian Junger says that for
soldiers, the bonds of combat can matter more
than bullets»
Only this time it's more personal
than business, as the Merc with a Mouth clashes with Josh Brolin's Cable, a time - traveling
soldier on a mission to kill a young mutant named Russell (Julian Dennison).
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.
Medal of Honor is so heavily dependent
on canned war moments and setpieces that it starts to feel like the Theme Park tour of the war in Afghanistan, rather
than a respectful trip through a day in the life of a
soldier - and yeah, that weirded me out.
March 16, 2018 • American
soldiers in Vietnam killed more
than 500 civilians in a period of four hours
on March 16, 1968, in the village of My Lai.