Sentences with phrase «years on bombs»

Then there's Iraq, where the government spent $ 80 million over 20 years on bombs that its scientists knew would not deliver most of the anthrax and other toxins they contained, but simply destroy them on impact.

Not exact matches

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

On September 11th of that year, in a case that got renewed scrutiny after the bombing, one of Tamerlan's friends, Brendan Mess, was brutally murdered in Waltham.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

Next on the list was Afghanistan where, despite having pulled out the vast majority of combat troops years ago, the U.S. saw the need to drop 1,337 bombs.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

By the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that year.

And yet options can be a time bomb, inflicting damage in future years not only on a company's financial underpinnings but also on the fragile sense of trust between leaders and the led.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

If your goal is to rock your company's tweets next year, rubbernecking at brands that bombed big - time on Twitter this year can help you avoid trending for the wrong reasons.

When President Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, VP Harry Truman had to be briefed on the atomic bomb, though the Manhattan Project had been underway for six years.

Paris (AFP)- Carlos the Jackal, the perpetrator of headline - grabbing attacks in the 1970s and early 1980s, goes on trial in France on Monday for the deadly bombing of a Paris shop more than 40 years ago.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a 16 - year - old Scardino was too young to enlist with the older boys in his neighborhood in Hoboken, New Jersey.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

According to activist groups, helicopters dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic gas on the last rebel - held town in Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged for six years and the focus of a renewed government offensive launched in mid-February.

It would have been hard for me to hold on after the stock bombed after the new pricing mechanism they introduced a year ago!

Maybe you're right on that account as we've been drone bombing them for a good few years.

I mean that the atom bomb hid from us the ending going on all around us, and that far from destroying modern times, the atom bomb kept modern times alive for nearly fifty years.

There'd been a number of terrorist attacks on churches, bombings of churches, continued instances of churches being closed down, so this has been building up for some years.

England was carpet bombed every single day for years yet it was «chin up carry on!»

Although Azzam had been the mentor of Osama bin Laden for 10 years, a power struggle between them ended in 1989 with the death of Azzam and his two sons in a bomb blast in Peshawar on their way to Friday prayers.

Where are the Muslims marching in the streets screaming for an end to suicide = ide bombing, the beheadings a few years back, the disgusting things seen on placards in London at Muslim gatherings, the hate messages discussed at Mosques?

It was quite severely bombed by Herr Hitler in 1941, and rebuilt on the cheap in the lean years after the war.

The 21 - year - old, captured the real - life heroism of the Nobel Peace Prize - nominated group known for their white rescue helmets, as they dig out survivors from bombings in Syria's on - going civil war.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

On a quiet April morning, some years before, thirteen - year - old Theo was visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his single mother, Audrey — a former model and art student — when a terrorist bomb explodes, killing many, including Audrey.

Describing what it's been like to be a Christian in the past year in Egypt, Archbishop Angealos said: «It's in a very painful time, it's the first time in our contemporary history we've seen bombings of churches - we've had three churches bombed in this last year, we've had churches attacked, people killed by gunfire attacks on worshipers as they were leaving, Christians attacked just for being christian, in their homes, in their shops and on the street.

News reports on television and in print featured Middle East terrorism experts claiming the Oklahoma City attack echoed a World Trade Center bombing two years earlier and that it contained parallels to recent Mideast attacks.

On New Year's Eve, 23 Copts died in a church bombing in Alexandria.

A Bangladeshi student who was bent on jihad has been sentenced to thirty years in prison for attempting to bomb the Federal Reserve in New York.

, the Olympics bomber who spent five years on the lam, before he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for bombing a women's clinic here in 1998?

In the NFL's playground game of the year — bombs on first downs, four - and five - wideout sets almost as a matter of course, endless yapping between the two teams — it was Dolphins defensive end Trace Armstrong who made the last big play of the game.

However, when people on the board bomb out statements that you have 200 mills in the bank and you are a player or two away from a real title challenge, it's not serious to risk the best chance we've had for years to win the league, and an excuse of «there wasn't enough quality» would just seem silly.

This isn't the first time he's let something slip on Gameday, remember when he dropped that F - bomb and called a 5 - year - old a midget?

Imagine that your first day on the job was in 1957 in Little Rock, where you're assigned to search lockers for bombs while busloads of white people prevent nine black children from walking through the doors of your high school, requiring the 101st Airborne to occupy the school for the rest of the year to prevent violence... and to burn your high hurdles at night to stay warm.

to put another knowledge bomb on the author, Simeone in the last 3 years replaced Costa, Falcao, Adra, Courtosis, won a la liga, reached two champions league final and this year have beaten both barca and bayern over two legs which «respected» wenger could not do in years

He would've been the good quarterback of a good team with an excellent offensive line and excellent head coach, and by the end of the year, the Aggies would be bombing on folks.

I'm all in on Schauffele after strong finishes at the last two majors, he bombs it, and should be your PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

I am pretty sure unless he bombs then Schneiderlin is going to be one of the first names on LvG's team sheet now — and Schweinsteiger isn't going to be around for more than a couple of years.

To SMA's point below, if he hits 5 of the bombs he missed on last year it puts him, at my count 14/28 in the deep passing game (25 + yards).

It was just a year ago that Singh dropped his bomb of a lawsuit on the Tour right at their biggest event at their home course, so they're probably not too upset to see him down the alternates list at the start of the week.

Former Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel has said that he would still be at the club had it not been for last year's bomb attack on the team bus.

As I have been banging on about for what feels like years, FSG's plan has always been to expand the stadium, put in place a high quality manager and sustain Champions League membership (not just qualify and then bomb out).

At last year's IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Johnson - Thompson bombed out after failing her long jump attempts and in Gotzis she looked shaky after failing to improve on a modest opening round leap of 6.17 m at the start of the second day.

This weekend, we've had shopping, a kids party, family stuff and various other things to do, all on top of trying to catch up with a week's worth of washing, tidying a house that looks like several small bombs have gone off in it and keeping a dog and a 4 - year - old stimulated enough that we don't end up with a riot on our hands.

It also includes an Isis «witness» describing the impact of Russia's bombing campaign on Syria, as well as commemorating the Sinai province's pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi one year ago.