Sentences with phrase «war veteran leaders»

The ongoing purges of scores of Mnangagwa allies have widened the rift between the Mugabes and various groups of war veteran leaders.

Not exact matches

Composed of veterans, former socialists and anarchists, and enraged bourgeois youth eager to fight the socialists as a substitute for the war they were too young for, fascism focused around the leader role Mussolini copied largely from D'Annunzio but with effective organizational forms Mussolini had learned in his years as a socialist.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

FILE PHOTO: World War Two veteran and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole attends Memorial day services at the World War II Memorial in Washington, U.S., November 11, 2016.

The Labour leader went on to put a question from a Gulf War veteran, noting that a private in the army would lose # 2,000 next April.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

Eunic Ortiz, Online Communications Director for 1199SEIU and President of the Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC; Patrick Devine, a veteran of the Vietnam War, a leading advocate for the rights of veterans; Hon. Joan Millman, a former NYS Assembly Member and advocate for persons with developmental delays; Hon. Joe McManus, a leader of Steamfitters Local 638 and the Democratic State Committeeman for the 80th AD.

Mr. Santos is also a highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, serving as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne in South Vietnam and earning numerous medals, including two Silver Stars and two Bronze Stars for valor.

Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford (Dwayne Johnson) now assesses security for skyscrapers.

In point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troops.

According to Deadline, who reported Campbell's casting, the film sees Johnson play a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

Starring Robert Ryan as a platoon leader dedicated to saving his men, who are trapped behind enemy lines, and Aldo Ray as a gruff, ferociously competent veteran who only cares about rescuing his shellshocked commanding officer, it's a stark, intimate film set during the Korean War and stands with Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet as one of the greatest films about the soldier's experience.

Skyscraper stars Dwayne Johnson as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

Who: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Jesse Plemons What: A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future until he's tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest historical drama is another of his studies of a lost boy and his charismatic parental substitutes, as alcoholic World War II veteran Joaquin Phoenix stumbles into the circle of cult leader Philip Seymour Hoffman and his wife Amy Adams.

Official Premise: A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's THE MASTER unfolds the journey of a naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future — until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour HoffmaWar II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's THE MASTER unfolds the journey of a naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future — until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffmawar unsettled and uncertain of his future — until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Taking over for Patrick Swayze, Thor's Chris Hemsworth plays the leader of a band of rebels, a shit - kicking Iraq War veteran who knows how to survive in the woods and use guerrilla tactics against a much larger force.

Following the release of the gravity defying poster, we've now got another peek into the towering inferno of Dwayne Johnson's summer disaster vehicle Skyscraper thanks to a Super Bowl trailer and TV spot; watch them here... Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary's Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran -LSB-...]

Language: English Genre: Action MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Pablo Schreiber, Neve Campbell Plot: Will Ford is a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

I have no doubt that war veterans have wandered into the deserts of the American Southwest seeking escape and answers, but Kleos (with its hallucinogenic drugs, apparent focus on male war veterans only to the exclusion of family and friends, and crazy leader) could not have been beneficial to its occupants.

Described as «challenging» and designed for «Total War veterans», Total War: Attila will obviously feature Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, and his one million horsemen.