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fighting and testimony
Despite a number of renovations, these hits on the building have been left uncovered as testimony to the ferocity of the fighting.
Quoting Thomas Jefferson, Hyde argued that although various individuals had lied in testimony before Congress, their actions were excusable because they were in support of the goal of fighting communism.
In his testimony he said that that Admiral Uggla had exclaimed " look how those dog cunts run " when he was surrounded, fighting the allied flagships.
According to the testimony of former camp guard Ahn Myong Chol of Camp 22, the guards are trained to treat the detainees as sub-human, and he gave an account of children in one of the camps who were fighting over who got to eat a kernel of corn retrieved from cow dung.
The bloody battles of Cassino and the Liri Valley, the Metfa Crossing, Ceprano, The Gothic Line, Missano Ridge, Coriano, the Lamone River Crossing, and Coventello were grim testimony to the regiment ’ s fighting effectiveness.

fighting and nephew
Thomas II ( c. 1199, Montmélian – February 7, 1259 ) was the Lord of Piedmont from 1233 to his death, Count of Flanders jure uxoris from 1237 to 1244, and regent of the County of Savoy from 1253 to his death, while his nephew Boniface was fighting abroad.
Brutus's nephew Turonus dies in the fighting, and the city of Tours is founded where he is buried.
Te Rauparaha resisted, fighting broke out and 22 settlers and at least four Māori were killed. Te Rangihaeata the warlike nephew of Te Rauparaha insisted on killing the captured men as his wife, who was Te Rauparaha's daughter and Capt Benkinsop's ex wife, had been accidentally shot and killed.
Then in May 1846 fighting broke out in the Hutt Valley between the settlers and Te Rauparaha's nephew, Te Rangihaeata.
Noritsune ( Kiyomori ’ s nephew and a strong warrior ) fails to have a fight with Yoshitsune and dies fighting bravely.
The Battle of Camlann () is reputed to have been the final battle of King Arthur, in which he either died or was fatally wounded fighting his enemy Mordred ( who was, in some later versions of the tale, his son or his nephew ).
On October 23, 1582, Ermac ’ s army fought the Battle of Chuvash Cape, which initiated three days of fighting against Kuchum ’ s nephew, Mahmet-kul, and the Tatar army.
Eric was the nephew of Eric II of Denmark, fighting for him at the decisive Battle of Fotevik in 1134, and succeeded Eric II to the throne when he was murdered in 1137.
Her husband and her brother offered to duel Greenough, but she said, according to her nephew John Callcott Horsley, " Be quiet, both of you, I am quite capable of fighting my own battles, and intend to do it ".
Other despatches from Hugh Henry Rose describes how on 31 January 1858 at Barodia, when Lyster had been acting as Rose's interpreter, Lyster was wounded when fighting a nephew of Mahomed Fazil Khan, receiving a " deep sword cut on inner part of right forearm.
The King came with a relief force to Coventry and although wounded in the fighting, drove Ranulf off and seized his hostages, including his nephew Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, whom Stephen refused to release unless Gilbert surrendered his own castles.
She has a younger sister with whom she never got along after she washed her " ratty stuffed bunny " and made it into a " clean soft bunny ", a brother-in-law named Kevin, and a young nephew named Danny, who pulled Clu, Fi, and Jack into his dreams because he wanted help to deal with " the monster " ( it turned out he was having nightmares because of his parents constant fighting, something they resolved to try to fix for Danny's sake ) in " Nightmare ".
He considered fighting his way out of the siege and fleeing to Xiangyang ( 襄陽, in modern Xiangfan, Hebei ), defended by his nephew Wang Honglie ( 王弘烈 ) the Prince of Wei.
Following his ouster from the town of Ambohimanga, Andrianjafy continued fighting his nephew from his southern headquarters Ilafy.
When Jacen and Brisha are separated, he comes face to face with a dark side version of his uncle Luke Skywalker, and Ben fights a dark side version of his mother, Mara Jade Skywalker ; on Coruscant, Luke and Mara are likewise fighting dark side versions of their nephew and son, respectively.

fighting and Algiers
* 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
The only fighting took place in the port of Algiers itself, where in Operation Terminal two British destroyers attempted to land a party of U. S. Rangers directly onto the dock, in order to prevent the French destroying the port facilities and scuttling their ships.
Bentalha, a town a few km south of Baraki ( see map ), a satellite town of Algiers, voted FIS in the elections, and many inhabitants were initially in favor of the Islamist guerrilla groups which began fighting the government after the elections ' cancellation ; some joined them.
Guerrillas fighting the government took refuge in the forest of Bainem west of Algiers.
In Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo directed Battaglia di Algeri (" The Battle of Algiers ," 1966 ), which depicted native African muslims as brave terrorists fighting French colonialists in Algeria.

fighting and establishes
* The British Admiralty establishes an air department and orders the Vickers Destroyer E. F. B. 1, the first British airplane built as an armed fighting aircraft.

fighting and Oliver
Oliver served in World War I taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, fighting at Gallipoli in 1915 and then undertaking mine-laying off the German and Belgian coast.
The Earl of Manchester was one of the prominent members favouring peace, but his Lieutenant General, Oliver Cromwell, strongly advocated fighting the war to the finish.
They formed part of the contingent raised by the exiled King Charles II as his contribution to the army of King Philip IV of Spain who were fighting the French and their allies the English Commonwealth under the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in the Franco-Spanish War and the concurrent Anglo-Spanish War.
A small scouting party led by Fort Wayne sutler William Oliver and Ohio Shawnee Captain Logan arrived at Fort Wayne during a lull in the fighting, and raced through Winamac's army into the fort.
Mark and Oliver end up fighting two super villains, and Oliver makes many rookie mistakes, but Invincible forgives him.
In the eighth series ( mostly written again by Mortimer ), Lyn and David return from Canada with their son ( and Oliver's and Simon's grandson ) Martin, who provides a new platform on which Simon and Oliver can develop their long-standing rivalry, fighting over who is the better grandfather.
Sir William Lockhart of Lee ( 1621 – 1675 ), after fighting on the side of Charles I in the English Civil War, attached himself to Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and who later appointed Lockhart commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652.
Lord Lee's eldest son, Sir William Lockhart of Lee ( 1621 – 1675 ), after fighting on the king's side in the English Civil War, attached himself to Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and by whom he was appointed commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652, and English ambassador at the French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful diplomacy.
Although its a new team and they were on the back feet after missing the pre-season testing and first races Oliver is confident with the personnel from all aspects of motorsport behind him they will be fighting for podiums towards the end of the year.

fighting and honorary
On 22 August 1917, Roosevelt was appointed an honorary captain in the British Army, and saw hard fighting in the Near East, later transferring to the United States Army.
He worked for the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in the honorary position of Extremely Senior Postman, before his briefly white-hot ceramic body was engulfed with very cold water while fighting a catastrophic fire in the post office building-the sudden massive cooling of his body by the water shattered him.

fighting and member
Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.
Barth traces the first documented use to a centrist political meeting in the Munich Löwenbräu-Keller on November 2, 1918, in which Ernst Müller-Meiningen, a member of the Progressive coalition in the Reichstag, used the term to exhort his listeners to keep fighting:
El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
In the beginning, Buffy often had to protect her friends from monsters, but over the course of the series most of them gained superpowers and fighting skills of their own, with Xander the only notable member with no mystical abilities or connection to the supernatural, though he does acquire extensive military knowledge thanks to a spell.
Lisa is the most intellectual member of the Simpson family, and many episodes of the series focus on her fighting for various causes.
In late 2008 he became member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, a not-for-profit organization established to monitor tolerance in Europe and prepare recommendations on fighting xenophobia and intolerance on the continent.
By the time of the events of The New Jedi Order, Horn was a Jedi Knight and no longer a member of the squadron, but the Rogues are still a vital fighting force and command a presence in several of the New Jedi Order novels as well.
The eccentric photojournalist Peter Throckmorton, out of New York, arrived there in the mid 1950s after a controversial campaign where he was profiling the Algerian War from the point of view of the Algerian rebels fighting against French troops, which would later lead to an alleged altercation between himself and another team member, Claude Duthuit, who was fighting with the French.
In December 1944, during the period of Churchill's martial law, Xenakis ( who was by then a member of the communist students ' company of the left-wing Lord Byron faction of ELAS ) became involved in street fighting against British tanks.
An outraged member of the public physically assaults the man for his opinion, claiming revenge for his two sons who have already been killed in the fighting.
He joined the Sigma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and excelled at sports in USD, fighting on the college boxing team, participating as a member of the track team and as a second-string guard on the football team.
After this he becomes a member of the Scooby Gang, helping with research and fighting.
In the U. S. military, fragging ( from fragmentation grenade ) refers to the act of deliberately assassinating another member, or members of the military, particularly ( a ) member ( s ) of one's own command or fighting squad.
As a member of that panel and in a subsequent essay published in Life as part of its " The National Purpose " series, he was critical of the tentative stand being taken by the United States in fighting the political and psychological warfare being waged by Soviet-led international Communism against the West.
The swordplay, choreographed by a member of the Chinese opera, brought to mind ballet fused with conventional chanbara fighting styles.
For a member of the royal family to take such a step in those days meant fighting countless social stigmas that had enough power to totally alienate someone from the society, but she had the support of her husband.
A Civilian Conservation Corps member was the only known human casualty of fighting the fire.
While in Kaiserlautern on June 13, 1849, Engels joined an 800 member group of workers that was being formed into a military corps by August Willich a former Prussian military officer, who was also a member of the Communist League and was fighting for revolutionary change in Germany.
Blum participated in the street fighting, was arrested and executed on November 9, despite his claim to immunity from prosecution as a member of the National Assembly.
All but one member of the Texas City volunteer fire department were killed in the initial explosion on the docks while fighting the shipboard fire, and with the fires raging, first responders from other areas were initially unable to reach the site of the disaster.
The FDJ was intended to be the " reliable assistant and fighting reserve of the Worker's Party ", or Socialist Unity Party of Germany, was a member of the National Front and had representatives in the People's Chamber.

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