Sentences with phrase «when armed groups»

Not exact matches

Well, that brings up the second surprise: The presence of armed guards tends to dramatically increase the likelihood of violence and injury during a robbery, as the Center for Investigative Reporting found when it analyzed detailed FBI crime incident reports from 2007 to 2011 — which the group got through a Freedom of Information Act request.

They are the largest religion and atheists are a small group, yet Christians get up in arms when atheists get public.

When a local caseworker sent a kid to an out of town group home, she was suddenly around tougher kids and they ran away together... right into the arms of a pimp.

I enjoy it better when church institutions talk about the open arms of Jesus, and the narrow doors of their church group.

It was true both of the religious sects like the local church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

Ask any child care teacher who is in charge of a group of potty trainees and they will tell you just how difficult it can be for little arms and hands to manipulate complicated pants, overalls and other clothing when the urge to pee or poop is looming.

Dan - Ali noted that the passing out of another set of officers to the Nigerian Army came at a period when the country was consolidating on the gains of counter-insurgency operation, adding that «the Nigerian Armed Forces, as you are aware, have been involved in an extensive combat against insurgency and terrorist groups.

As one analyst put it, «armed groups are very effective at «being» armed groups and rather poor when it comes to the process of engagement» (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, 2007).

The groundbreaking news reached me when I was in Bogotá in a meeting with the head of the Colombian Army: after more than 50 years of armed conflict, and four years of negotiations, the Colombian government and the leftist guerrilla group, the FARC, have reached a final peace agreement.

The group sent the letter to Mayor De Blasio asking for an armed, precinct cop in each city school when class is in session and during after - school activities.

If it refers to «terrorists» or «head - choppers» when talking about armed opposition groups (eg.

Basra was dominated by criminal groups when Britain retreated and it took the Iraqi armed forces - backed up by US troops - to start to turn that situation around (and here) in what was called Operation Charge of the Knights.

The controversy over the exemptions began two years ago, when it was revealed that the state arm of the abortion rights group NARAL had been granted an exemption, prompting Republicans to complain that the watchdog panel had created a disclosure - free avenue for political giving.

It comes at a time when personnel are being overstretched to work harder in the command's quest to arrest armed robbers said to be operating in syndicated groups within the region.

And when I say «war» in this post, I mean also militarism, the culture of war, the armies, arms, industries, policies, plans, propaganda, prejudices, rationalizations that make lethal group conflict not only possible but also likely

A second study showed that training in realistic environments, including practiced encounters with armed - opponent actors in buildings and streets, improved their shooting accuracy under stress Similarly, trials with 66 of the officers revealed that those who trained weekly on their own in a combat sport such as karate or kickboxing performed better under high - anxiety fights than those with no additional training, although both groups suffered performance decreases when conditions shifted from low to high anxiety.

They found that Group A strep lacking M1 protein were easily killed by cathelicidin, but were rescued when they were armed with added M1 protein.

IOANNINA, GREECE — Hazim Shingali and his family had no time to gather their belongings on 3 August 2014, when they heard that hundreds of armed Islamic State (IS) group fighters were storming toward their town of Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Unfortunately, none of them is getting the most out of their workout, because using only one rep range when training your arms is pretty much like using only one isolation exercise to effectively develop a major muscle group.

When you train your lower arms, you need to make sure to equally activate the antagonistic muscle groups, such as the flexors and extensors.

Using a technique known as supersets (when you perform two exercises back to back with no rest in between), The Biggest Loser trainer Jennifer Widerstrom pairs the Banded Triceps Extension with the Rhomboid Pulse to help you target the smaller muscle groups in your shoulders and arms.

I like to mix up my grip when I am working my upper back / lats and arms (or when I work any muscle group for that matter).

When you add the BOSTON BODY BARRE DVD, Group Classes or Private Lessons to your 30 sessions every 2 - 3 months you will amp up your results - especially for challenge areas like buttocks, waistline and upper arms.

While a well developed chest and arms is clearly an important part of any complete physique, the truth is that these muscles only play a small role when compared to a much larger, much more intricate muscle group that most people severely neglect in their training programs.

Strict pull - ups play a role in developing your trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and other muscle groups located around your chest and arms, which come in handy when you're doing a muscle up.

A group of office workers are in Europe for a meeting with arms dealers, when they come across a tree in the road, they get off the bus and the driver leaves them in the middle of no where, they think they will hike to a hostel, wrong, they start being eliminated one by one.

When he lands, he gets his bearings and discovers a group of well armed individuals who have all suffered the same (or similar) fate.

What should be just - another - illegal - gun - deal - by - the - docks between a group of IRA fighters (led by Murphy), a skeezy arms dealer (Copley), and two American representatives for the respective parties (Larson and Hammer) explodes into a firefight when one lower - rung goon accuses another of assaulting his sister at a bar the night prior.

A group of sadistic bad guys (and the first half of this film is particular gripping by how efficient the Korean terrorists are, when it comes to the killing of the President's armed guard), kidnap the President and one lone man, trapped in the building, is charged with taking down the bad guys and saving the USA.

Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group.

The women and girls who participated in the focus group discussion hailing from various IDPs2 camps in Mogadishu said they live under fear due to abuses by armed groups members especially when going to the bush to collect firewood with some of them being raped or assaulted to extent that some have opted to sending their male children or relatives to the bush to collect firewood.

An example from our own lives came when a group of friends joined Marcus as he crossed the finish line of a half - marathon — they threw their arms up just as he did, mimicking his stance.

A victorious «Game Over» seems imminent when they meet a small group of well - armed survivors.

When a boisterous group of fishermen arrive from Oregon to give the local economy a shot in the arm, Holly is immediately driven to distraction by handsome ex-baseball player River O'Leary.

When the Deepwater Wind contract was approved by the state government in 2010, ratepayers on the mainland, the state's attorney general and the environmental group Conservation Law Foundation all sued, citing the high cost and alleged strong arm tactics employed to get the project approved.

Once again, a group of believers (Leviticus) claims that a strong change is discernable in some aspect of the AGW mythos, yet when the Leviticus paper is actually read, it is clear that as Pielke, Sr. points out, OHC is in reality not doing what is predicted, is significantly lower than the AGW prediction, and that Leviticus offers no mechanism to move this heat fromthe surface to the depths, unless one accepts arm waving as the method of moving heat content.

Exclusive: Official Washington insists Iran is the main Mideast troublemaker when clearly that isn't true, but the «group think» explains why a few intercepted arms shipments to Somalia where linked to Iran and Yemen, reports Gareth Porter.

A group of 288 former King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) staff have been awarded more than # 1m, after they brought a claim over the way their redundancies were handled when the firm's European arm collapsed in January.

In other words, the ESRB, which is an arm of the video game industry's largest lobbying group, seems to have taken a rather toothless approach to microtransactions and loot boxes at a time when regulatory pressure only continues to gain steam.

Background When Lois and I decided to create a better path to addiction recovery back in 1985, it seemed we could improve on what already existed — the recovery group movement and its business arm, the addiction treatment industry.