From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

From there he conducts and dispatches military expeditions to all parts of the world.

From May 1943 onwards there was very close cooperation between the British and American military intelligence organisations.

From the time of the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763, Great Britain and its successor the United Kingdom has been one of the leading military and economic powers of the world.

From 1902 until its abrogation in 1934, the Platt Amendment authorized the US to use military force to preserve Cuba's independence.

From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.

From the late 1940s to 1989, the extensive Czechoslovak Armed Forces ( about 200, 000 ) formed one of the pillars of the Warsaw Pact military alliance.

From its founding, the Cheka was an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik communist government.

From an early stage, the rebels received decisive financial and military support from the United States government, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time.

From there, the term migrated into military slang, where it merged with FUBAR.

From the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959 until 1967, the Gaza Strip was directly administered by an Egyptian military governor.

From 1966 the military was extensively involved in politics, mounting several coups.

From the early days of the Republic, ten years of military service were a citizen's duty and a prerequisite for election to public office.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

From 1986 to early 1988 Haiti was ruled by a provisional military government under General Namphy.

From 1919 to 1924, the Honduran government expended US $ 7. 2 million beyond the amount covered by the regular budgets for military operations.

From 1959, in a process that accelerated in 1961, Nehru adopted the " Forward Policy " of setting up military outposts in disputed areas of the Sino-Indian border, including in 43 outposts in territory not previously controlled by India.

From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ).

From roughly 1560, purely honorific orders were established, as a way to confer prestige and distinction, unrelated to military service and chivalry in the more narrow sense.

From 1977 to 1978, the Afghan armed forces conduced joint military training with the Military of Egypt.

From the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 until 1844 small detachments of British Imperial troops based in New Zealand were the only military.

From that time onwards, the system of joint Party and state military leadership was established.

From 1850 until 1903, the United States used troops to suppress separatist uprisings and quell social disturbances on many occasions, creating a long-term animosity among the Panamanian people against the US military and resentment against Bogotá.

From 1947 until 1977, the United States supplied about US $ 750, 000 worth of military hardware each year and trained more than 2, 000 Paraguayan military officers in counter-intelligence and counterinsurgency.

From a technical standpoint, the string playing is good, but the Pro Arte people fail to enter into the spirit of things here.

) From the technical standpoint, records differ from live music to the degree that they fail to convey the true color, texture, complexity, range, intensity, pulse, and pitch of the original.

From the volume standpoint, the total market represented by the sign industry is impressive.

From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.

From a baroque standpoint it is a moment of divine intervention in the affairs of man.

From an engineering and service standpoint, the Phoenix could be said to be a notable success.

From a monetary standpoint, governments control just how much money is in circulation worldwide, which plays an immense role on how money is spent in one's own country.

From the standpoint of an observer in an inertial frame, the effects can be explained as results of inertia without invoking the centrifugal force.

From a qualitative standpoint, the path can be approximated by an arc of a circle for a limited time, and for the limited time a particular radius of curvature applies, the centrifugal and Euler forces can be analyzed on the basis of circular motion with that radius.

From a rigorous theoretical standpoint, the expected value is the integral of the random variable with respect to its probability measure.

From a psychological standpoint, the ELIZA effect is the result of a subtle cognitive dissonance between the user's awareness of programming limitations and their behavior towards the output of the program.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2009 ) argue that " From an energetics standpoint, a developing human will have difficulty building a brain and fighting off infectious diseases at the same time, as both are very metabolically costly tasks " and that " the Flynn effect may be caused in part by the decrease in the intensity of infectious diseases as nations develop.

From the standpoint of group theory, isomorphic groups have the same properties and need not be distinguished.

From a political standpoint, the Whig Party had been in decline in the South because of the effectiveness with which the Democrats had hammered Whigs over slavery issues.

From the Mings ' standpoint, the Portuguese were ultimately responsible for the massacre, since it was they who provoked the Chinese through " rapaciousness ".

From a geological standpoint, the Ohio River is young.

From Stroessner's standpoint, there were ominous similarities between Somoza and himself.

From this standpoint, Pantheism is the view that everything is part of an all-encompassing, immanent God.

From the standpoint of radiation protection, radiation is often separated into two categories, ionizing and non-ionizing, to denote the level of danger posed to humans.

From a diagnostic standpoint, organic disorders were those held to be caused by physical illness affecting the brain ( that is, psychiatric disorders secondary to other conditions ), while functional disorders were considered to be disorders of the functioning of the mind in the absence of physical disorders ( that is, primary psychological or psychiatric disorders ).

From the standpoint of the doctrine of the Trinity — one Divine Being existing in three Persons — patripassianism is considered heretical because it denies the distinct personhood of the Members of the Trinity.

" From his standpoint, he could now threaten the entire Crusader coast.

From a military standpoint, historian John Keegan notes exaggerations and myths that surround Shaka, but nevertheless maintains:

For them, ' primitive ' denotes irrational use of resources and absence of the intellectual and moral standards of ' civilised ' human societies .... From the standpoint of anthropological knowledge, both these views are equally one-sided and simplistic.

From a rhetorician's standpoint, an effective scheme of omission that Poe employs is diazeugma, or using many verbs for one subject ; it omits pronouns.