Sentences with phrase «than the soldiers doing»

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

Not exact matches

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

For example, aren't there better ways to help humanity than protesting soldiers» funerals as the Westboro Baptist Church people do?

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.

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.

I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them by what I've said other than by the impact of certain obscene words that soldiers use.

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 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.»

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.

Caroline Lucas, as the only Green Party MP, does get more attention and thus wields more influence than the average Labour or Conservative foot soldier.

American soldiers who have killed in Iraq do not think more poorly of Iraqis than Iraq War soldiers who have not killed — they do, however, think worse of Americans who speak out against the war.

Soldiers with PTSD are more likely to be disabled or to die from accident or illness than those who do not, even decades later.

That number doesn't include the more than 300,000 soldiers with brain damage inflicted during military combat between 2000 and 2014.

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:

Rather than go for boots, which the soldiers did wear, though, I chose a pair of low buckle shoes that were more suited for colonial gentleman.

They are the foot - soldiers of fashion weeks, but that doesn't stop them being more knowledgeable than most of the guests, including some journalists, out front.

Well don't know how to start I am David an ex soldier left the army after 23 years I am 44 blonde hair blue eyes lol I enjoy going out and socialising but am just as happy staying in with a Chinese and good company if you want to know more than just ask

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 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.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

I disagree with the assessment that they are caricatures rather than characters; if the film took the time to develop each soldier into fully fleshed - out three - dimensional characters, we'd end up with Band of Brothers, and at slightly under three hours the filmmakers just didn't have the time for that.

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.

The movie is expected to do 42 % better than the last «Transformers «movie which had an opening of $ 161 million worldwide, and should easily be enough for the biggest movie of 2014 beating «Captain America: The Winter Soldier «which made $ 95 million.

And any time spent thinking about how ridiculous what they're actually talking about is, is still more entertaining than some of the antics the supporting characters get up to, be it John Malkovich trying to kung fu a robot or a former Special Forces soldier complaining stress or all the running he was having to do, or dear God anything having to do with Sam's parents who offer nothing to the film but reminders why they shouldn't be in it.

Seal becomes so good at transporting guns, drugs, information and even soldiers, between the US and a variety of Central American countries, while avoiding authorities, that he starts making more cash than he knows what to do with.

Jake Gyllenhaal has played cops, soldiers, even time - traveling action heroes, but he's never looked less meek and sensitive, less Donnie Darko, than he does in Southpaw.

If Agents of SHIELD doesn't pull itself out of the slump, now that its actually free of the need to keep major revelations in check so as not to intrude on its big brother Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's hard to see a renewal order as anything other than an acknowledgement, by Disney, that the show is what many fans feared: an hour - long commercial for the Marvel movie universe.

Furthermore, getting to Deveraux proves easier said than done, since he is protected by an army of rogue Universal Soldiers in his capacity as high priest of the Unisol Church of Eventualism.

And while the film doesn't arrive for more than half a year, this first trailer looks gorgeous — thanks mostly to the fine work of Roger Deakins» replacement, Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) are at the heart of a complex moral, emotional and psychological battle that divides the Avengers — all but Hulk and Thor, of course, who are off galavanting elsewhere — straight down the middle when they are asked to sign the Sokovia Accords, a peacekeeping effort drawn up by the United Nations in response to the concerns of a growing population that thinks the Avengers are doing more harm than good.

What she does do, in her defence, is portray the actions of soldiers less than heroic.

Rather than putting Glass out of his misery, Captain Henry leaves Glass's son, two volunteers, Fitzgerald and a young soldier to take care of him until help arrives (or bury him if doesn't make it).

That requires less of a transition than the Russo Brothers did going from TV sitcoms to Captain America: Winter Soldier.

Yet there is something disturbing about laughing at these senseless murders — particularly when Dr. Bailey nonchalantly picks off incapacitated U.S. soldiers who have done nothing wrong other than to fulfill their duty.

Much in the same way The Winter Soldier did, Civil War takes these larger than life characters and brings them down to earth.

Ditto for the finale, a completely ludicrous search and rescue plot that does more to turn an audience against Kim for recklessly endangering her life and the lives of the soldiers tasked with protecting her than it does to create suspense.

Zeta - Jones is always enjoyable as a slinky seductress, but the filmmakers seem even less sure what to do with her character than the idiotic soldiers do.

She says the military is doing little more than «recruiting child soldiers.»

It's great writing practice on a number of levels, but more than that, it's a chance to get your students thinking not just about what the soldiers we honoring on Memorial Day do for their country, but why they do it.

In «Minor Heroics,» set in Israel, the brother of a wounded soldier remembers how disgruntled his brother felt by the American presence in his country: «There was nothing worse than guarding land he just wanted to give back, Asaaf was always saying, nothing worse than having one of those Americans stop by his station to tell him, in English, that he was doing holy work.»

Soldiering on is, of course, easier said than done.

While he was clearly wrong to murder the young soldier it was no more wrong than doing what the Nazi government ordered everyday.

Am nowhere near your numbers, but I did run a free book listing for my nonfiction memoir CONTACT a few months ago with Bookbub and got about 12,000 downloads which I thought was pretty amazing as not everyone wants to read a memoir of a soldier and combat etc...... I have run it free a few times before on the FREE TO LIST sites you mention and never did more than about 3000 downloads each time so that definitely proves the value of Bookbub in terms of sheer numbers.

The game's reasonably good at figuring out what you meant to do, but there were still far too many times when I snatched up something from the ground rather than impaling an incoming Roman soldier.

-- New World Thugs data recorder has been fixed to always work regardless of your level — Old Friends, Old Swords: Added failsafe to fix situations where the mission does not advance — Project Aegis, Part 1: Set the turrets to disable 15 seconds after combat has been complete — Project Aegis, Part 1: Fixed the issue where some enemies were spawning without using a spawn vehicle — Increased the times and locations of the emergency necessary to fulfill the «Svushinnira: Just Business» contract — Lowered the minimum level required to gain access to Contracts from 250 to 175 — Removed one of the runners from the Mount Tam crash site to improve driving paths — Vehicle stats will no longer show up as zero in the vendor buy screen — Weapons that require an EGO Rating of less than 250 have been added to Faction vendors — Lowered the minimum level requirement for the Soleptor Excavation co-op map to 100 — Lowered the minimum level requirement for the Island of Lost Soldiers to 150 — Lowered the minimum level requirement for the Scrapworks Salvage to 225

If this game does not make you feel like a super soldier who can do anything, than no game can.

Midway through MOH a soldier is heard to say «At least we're gonna make it farther than the Russians did.»

Ultimately it doesn't always give you the answers, but it sometimes raises questions or gets you to ask the right questions... More people played the soldier class than all of the other classes combined.

Big Red One does a good job of making you feel like you're part of a much larger endeavor rather than a lone foot soldier checking items off of his laundry list of objectives.