Sentences with phrase «than the soldiers on»

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.