Sentences with phrase «war service in»

During war service in Britain, he would become friends with leading artists of that movement, such as Graham Sutherland, John Minton and John Craxton.

After war service in the USAF, in 1949 he was awarded a foreign travel scholarship that took him to Europe.

Following war service in the British Army, he held teaching posts at Bath Academy of Art in Wiltshire (1946 - 1956) and at Leeds University where he held a Gregory Fellowship from 1953 - 1955.

He had done war service in the RAF and it was with familiarity, and something of the affection that I still retain for the Church of England (at least by comparison with the competition), that I later read John Betjeman's poem:

Not exact matches

From the Korean War to today, military pay has been relatively consistent across the services and the numbers listed in entries 8 - 11 reflect the financial realities of an E-1 enlisted servicemember.

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.

A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a trade war with China in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.

Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi's personal war on poor customer service has culminated in a City of Perth awards program, with businesses offered the chance to meet with Ms Scaffidi as part of a monthly priz

A Silver Star and Bronze Star recipient for his service during the Iraq War, Jocko knows a thing or two about leadership in pressure situations.

The company, which provides mobile commerce and engagement tools and services, was able to identify a promising candidate in the fierce war for talent.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

It is «an ecosystem to ecosystem war in which an ecosystem includes not only the hardware but the software, services, developers, advertising and partners that create a great mobile experience.»

On Tuesday, reporting fourth quarter results, Verizon conceded that it would see no growth in wireless service revenue this year due to the increasingly fierce price wars roiling the market.

A powerful military deterrent and a resolve to pursue effective diplomacy can prevent war on the Korean peninsula, preserve the lives of the millions living in Seoul (and probably tens of thousands of American service members), and secure American vital national interests in Asia.

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

However, in the storage wars, even the mighty Microsoft couldn't play the low - margin game, having to make serious cutbacks (and eventually try and fix the situation) when they reduced the «Free» tier of their consumer storage service OneDrive.

So they are constantly in a tug - of - war with the service, and that makes negotiations like the ones with Starz and Epix all the more contentious.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

A decade after his retirement from the Foreign Service, Kennan became an early and outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam.

If your company is up to its neck in scandal, rebranding can limit the onus, as when Blackwater renamed itself Xe Services and then Academi to escape the stink of the Iraq War.

Through education, art, sports, music, vocational - skills training, medical treatment, and nutritional services, Falling Whistles is giving those affected by the war in Congo the tools and skills they need to stand for peace for years to come.

In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIIn 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIin 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.

He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II, a service that had him defusing land mines and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

War veterans are comprised of individuals of all ages; many are in service from their late teenage years to their early twenties, entering the workforce at the same time as a university graduate.

A new Strategic Support Force was created that includes the military intelligence service, and space warfare and cyber warfare forces, key elements of China's asymmetric strategy aimed at defeating more advanced U.S. forces in a war.

This is simply the latest twist in the country - wide telecommunications advertising wars: From New Brunswick to British Columbia, the corporate titans of Canadian telecom service provision have consistently dragged each other into court over absolutist claims to being the «fastest» or «most reliable.»

Called or ordered to active duty service as a member of the National Guard on full - time National Guard duty, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101 (d)(5), under a call to active service in connection with a war, military operation, or a national emergency.

The company already announced that Star Wars and Marvel content would indeed be a part of the streaming service (that is what was still up in the air when I wrote Disney's Choice), but the company is absolutely right to not stop there: being a true Netflix competitor means having more content, not less — and that content doesn't necessarily have to be fresh!

SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP)-- The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed Wednesday, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.

A group of Afghan vets who went to court to fight the slashing of benefits were informed, in response, that the Harper government has torn up the social contract with vets that has been in place since World War I. Fantino's department, in the midst of all the cutbacks, returned $ 1.13 billion of unspent funds, and then announced that $ 200 million of that would be returned to improve services.

There was a marked fall in the value of Australian service exports in the June quarter, in line with the world - wide downturn in international travel associated with the Iraq war and the spread of SARS (see Box A on «SARs»).

Geoff had completed training for the British Colonial Service and, despite the outbreak of war, had been posted to a district office in Malacca.

However, during the Vietnam war, LDS members were over-represented in the armed services compared with the general populace.

Some of the most moving testimony in the volume is found in the circular letters Bonhoeffer composed to maintain contact with the pastors he had trained, almost all of whom were conscripted into military service and many of whom died in the war.

Better yet, we can ruthlessly war against our selfish sense of entitlement and give more of ourselves in service of others.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

His story and take on war, patriotism, military service and Jesus» call to nonviolence are chronicled in his new book, Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism and Conscience.

After World War II, in the forties and early fifties, some churches in Europe set up specialized family counseling services, especially in England, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland.

Many of that day thought it highly improper for women to engage in religious work, but the outstanding service of nurses during the war helped to change things.

In World War II some men who had trouble with alcohol before and after had little trouble during their period of service because they found a security in the authoritarian army structurIn World War II some men who had trouble with alcohol before and after had little trouble during their period of service because they found a security in the authoritarian army structurin the authoritarian army structure.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.

In this regard, when we lift up before the congregation the lives of the saints who gave themselves for others and when we encourage service to those in need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship dependIn this regard, when we lift up before the congregation the lives of the saints who gave themselves for others and when we encourage service to those in need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship dependin need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship depends.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

You'll support a man who protested in FAVOR of the Vietnam War, while he himself dodged service by hiding in France.

I take offense to that portion of your comment because because I am a US Marine and have been one for a long time and have served in combat and none of us remotely said or thought we were going to war in the name of God, so you are not only bearing false witness, you are also condemning military service (Exodus 20 and Matthew 22; Matthew 7:1 - 3) without understanding that many join the military because of the poor job markets.

What I've also learnt is having served in the Air Force, with my conduct being desribed as exemplary and service honourable, nevertheless, the same conduct that would be considered as such in war is not always appropriate in civilian environments.

As one whose professional career has focused on the development and restraints on the initiation of war and the conduct of war, and one who, moreover, holds the deepest moral justification for use of armed force in the service of justice, I clearly belong among the constituency supporting war crimes proceedings.

This latter tradition is the tradition that includes the Augustinian conception of good politics as a just, and thus peaceful, social order; an associated conception of international relations; and the idea of just war defining the instrumentality of the just use of force in the service of both.

The head of the Anglican Church in Ireland has linked events in Gaza to World War One during a service to commemorate Britain entering the conflict 100 years ago.