He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.

During World War II, Eleven Assyrian companies saw action in Palestine and another four served in Cyprus.

About 26 were sold to Siam and saw action as Infantry support guns and AA guns during the Franco-Thai war ( 1940-1941 ) along with 30 Vickers Mk. E Type B 6-ton tanks.

Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.

Heschel saw the teachings of the Hebrew prophets as a clarion call for social action in the United States and worked for black civil rights and against the Vietnam War Heschel was an activist for civil rights in the United States.

Following Wagram, Charles saw no more significant action in the Napoleonic Wars.

During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

He saw action at the Battle of Le Cateau that month and during the retreat from Mons.

But lacking the ability to hit them with accuracy ( only three or four Ju 87s saw action in Spain ), a method of carpet bombing was chosen resulting in heavy civilian casualties.

Summer campaigns saw him not only retake, sometimes with brutal reprisals, what he had lost in the ' close ' season, but also seek to widen his sphere of operation — and we see him in action in the Aveyron at St. Antonin and on the banks of the Rhone at Beaucaire.

The 20th century saw a remarkable expansion and evolution of critical theory, following on earlier Marxist Theory efforts to locate individuals within larger structural frameworks of ideology and action.

He first saw action against the Ottoman Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent War of the Holy League, before serving in the Nine Years ' War, fighting alongside his cousin, the Duke of Savoy.

Lee wanted to use the film as a vehicle for expressing what he saw as the beauty of his Chinese culture, rather than it being just another action film.

He returned to the front and saw some action in a night attack on the Nationalist trenches where he chased an enemy soldier with a bayonet and bombed an enemy rifle position.

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

He once again commanded 2nd Battalion at Hazebrouck in April 1918, where which it took such severe casualties that it saw no further action.

Godwin, a philosophical anarchist, from a rationalist and utilitarian basis opposed revolutionary action and saw a minimal state as a present " necessary evil " that would become increasingly irrelevant and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

He saw action in the Seven Years ' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec.

Later he saw action in the American Revolutionary War, in the Siege of Boston.

With the 40th, he saw action in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia campaigns.

The Queen's Rangers saw extensive action during the Philadelphia campaign, including a successful surprise attack ( planned and executed by Simcoe ) at the Battle of Crooked Billet.

The Africans saw witchcraft as a powerful influence on their lives and frequently took violent action against suspected witches.

During the Napoleonic Wars the regiment saw action in the Peninsular War.

In World War I the KRRC was expanded to twenty-two battalions and saw much action on the Western Front, Macedonia and Italy with 60 battle honours awarded.

I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.

Soon she saw Rod and Hez moving over to join them.

It's all over now, the driver thought as he saw the patrolman turn and walk rapidly down along the trailer toward them.

( Significantly, bitter echoes of the 1960 power struggle that saw Mosk moving into the national committee post over Ziffren are still audible in party circles.

Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

Going, he saw as often before some queer, hideous yellow face over his head, shining and weird like the old images which had invested him at other times like those that appear sometimes near the eyeballs when they are perhaps pressed by the thumbs.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

The Anglo / Norman invasion of Connacht in 1235 AD saw the territory of Umhall taken over by the Butlers and later by the de Burgos.

Instead of seeing it as a fair system under which ' everyone ' has equal rights, they saw it as the numerically preponderant poor tyrannizing over the rich.

Despite problems over the previous acquisition of AC Cars, Hayes saw the potential of the brand and the discussion resulted in Ford taking a share holding in September 1987.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

However, this was significantly less successful than conventional regulation in the European Union, which saw a decrease of over 70 % in SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions during the same time period.

By election time, the economy was souring and Bush saw his approval rating plummet to just slightly over 40 %.

* At Corby, the closure of the former Stewarts & Lloyds site in the early 1980s saw the loss of 11, 000 jobs, leading to an initial unemployment rate of over 30 %.

The revolutionary period saw the introduction of policies favouring French over the regional languages, pejoratively referred to as patois.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

San Martín considered the liberation of Chile a strategic stepping-stone to the emancipation of Peru, which he saw as the key to hemispheric victory over the Spanish.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

He defeated his brother Constantine II in 340, but anger in the army over his personal life and preference for his barbarian bodyguards saw the general Magnentius rebel, resulting in Constans ’ assassination in 350.