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effort and combat
While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.
The tactical meaning of blitzkrieg involves a coordinated military effort by tanks, mobilized infantry, artillery and aircraft, to create an overwhelming local superiority in combat power, to overwhelm an enemy and break through its lines.
These include two 135 tonne Yunnan-class landing craft, which are able to carry and launch smaller craft for troop insertions. Some effort has been made to assess equipment needs to bring L ' Audacieux P103 and Bakassi P104 to an effective combat status.
Also, significant numbers of British, and later U. S., fighter aircraft were supplied to aid the Soviet war effort as part of Lend-Lease, with the Bell P-39 Airacobra proving particularly effective in the lower-altitude combat typical of the Eastern Front.
* () The Philistines return with an army to attack Israel, but, having amassed on a hillside opposite to the Israelite forces, suggest that to save effort and lives on both sides, it would be better to have a proxy combat between their champion, a Rephaim from Gath named Goliath, and someone of Saul's choosing.
In 1979, Public Law 96-22 established the first Vet Centers, after a decade of effort by combat vets and others who realized the Vietnam veterans in America and elsewhere ( including Australia ) were facing specific kinds of readjustment problems.
As part of the Nazis ' effort to combat the enormous Belarusian resistance during World War II, special units of local collaborationists were trained by the SS's Otto Skorzeny to infiltrate the Soviet rear.
Following the 1941 German attack on the USSR, the AK assisted the Soviet Union's war effort by sabotaging the German advance into Soviet territory and provided intelligence on the deployment and movement of German forces After 1943, its direct combat activity increased sharply.
In recent years, much effort has been done, by both governments and individuals, to combat the scammers involved in advanced fee fraud and 419 scams.
For combat each character has an Offensive Bonus ( OB ), which takes into account one's natural physical adeptness, weapon skill, and other factors, and a Defensive Bonus ( DB ), which takes into account natural agility, the use of shields and " Adrenal Defense ", the ability of martial artists to avoid blows seemingly without effort.
The debate shifted from terrorist profiling to racial profiling of Mexicans, in which Ventura said he witnessed the Border Patrol deep within U. S. borders demanding proof of citizenship in an effort to combat illegal immigration.
During his search for Daniel Hall in the Norse land of Swartalfheim, the Corinthian, obviously with little effort, snaps the neck of a supernatural wolf with his bare hands, and later sees through the deceptions of the Norse god Loki and defeats the deity in single combat.
The Friends of Lemont School has been organized to spearhead an effort to combat the closure, even sponsoring an on-line petition to keep the neighborhood school.
Sandy was incorporated in 1893, largely as part of an effort to combat what Mormon inhabitants considered " unsavory " elements in the town.
For example, they are obliged to make every effort to avoid damaging people and property not involved in combat, but they are not guilty of a war crime if a bomb mistakenly hits a residential area.
" The same historians would not consider the immense logistical effort fielded by the U. S. to sustain its military in Southeast Asia as a waste of manpower and resources, even if only one American soldier in four assigned to South Vietnam served in the combat arms.
Iturbide gathered and sent troops to combat Santa Anna, but the effort was not very strong.
In a statement to the Army on 15 August, Rundstedt acknowledged: " It is only natural that such great effort would result in fatigue, the combat strength of the troops has weakened and in many places there is a desire for rest.
In an effort to combat corruption, the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative ( PACI ) was launched by CEOs from the Engineering and Construction, Energy and Metals and Mining industries at the Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2004.
In 1994, in an effort to combat piracy, the IFPI and the compact disc manufacturing industry introduced Source Identification ( SID ) codes, which are markings on CD parts that identify the manufacturers, equipment, and master discs that were used to create each disc.
" The effort seeks to raise awareness and action to combat hunger, homelessness and other vestiges of poverty in America.
Among their effort include the desire to combat climate change and support an environment that runs on sustainable energy.
Because of heavy commitments to the Korean War effort, the Nellis Gunnery School was converted to combat crew training in 1950.
Moreover, it was the first broad effort to integrate reserve units into a major Air Force combat mission in peacetime on a continuing basis using volunteers.
And, once again, Loblaw made an effort to offer more general merchandise in its stores in the hope of becoming more of a ' one-stop ' shopping destination for consumers – all moves presumably designed to combat the threat posed by a " looming Wal-Mart

effort and resource
In a total war, there is less differentiation between combatants and civilians than in other conflicts, and sometimes no such differentiation at all, as nearly every human resource, civilians and soldiers alike, can be considered to be part of the belligerent effort.
The basic problem is that if people ignore the scarcity value of the commons, they can end up expending too much effort, over harvesting a resource ( e. g., a fishery ).
The bulk of the U. S. effort in support of consolidating democracy in Benin is focused on long-term human resource development through U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) programs.
* Pooling ( resource management ), grouping together of resources or effort
These pages are part of a larger effort to provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify and report threats to your account ’ s safety, to spotlight ways in which we work to fulfill our security commitment, and to act as a helpful resource in case someone manages to steal account information from you.
In 2007, the International Dark-Sky Association named Natural Bridges the first International Dark-Sky Park, which is a designation that recognizes not only that the park has some of the darkest and clearest skies in all of the United States, but also that the park has made every effort to conserve the natural dark as a resource worthy of protection.
The effect of reducing local effort and resource use by learning improved methods paradoxically often has the opposite latent effect on the next larger scale system, by facilitating its expansion, or economic growth, as discussed in the Jevons paradox in the 1880s and updated in the Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate in the 1980s.
None-the-less, the product of long effort and mutual adjustment, one component resource to the other, showed vividly and thrillingly what one of art's futures might be.
Before a project schedule can be created, the schedule maker should have a work breakdown structure ( WBS ), an effort estimate for each task, and a resource list with availability for each resource.
Territoriality will emerge where there is a focused resource that provides enough for the individual or group, within a boundary that is small enough to be defended without the expenditure of too much effort.
According to David Leighton of the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ), " A deliberate management effort will be required to meet future water demand in the Antelope Valley without incurring significant economic and environmental costs associated with overuse of the ground-water resource ".
Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by mineral resource companies to find commercially viable ore deposits.
This level of effort maximizes the economic profit, or rent, of the resource being utilized.
* Totaler Krieg — " Total war " — In a total war, there is less differentiation between combatants and civilians than in other conflicts, and sometimes no such differentiation at all, as nearly every human resource, civilians and soldiers alike, can be considered to be part of the belligerent effort
Much of the corruption in Mongolia stems from interaction between bad actors in the business community and the government surrounding mining rights ; so in an effort to create a dialogue between different stakeholders in the natural resource and mining community Elbegdorj opened a roundtable in Ulaanbaatar with the World Economic Forum ’ s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative ( PACI ) in March 2011.
statuses and to manage the tactical training progress, to build a background and knowledge base in order to make research on tactical aeroneutics, to make research to allow fighter elements of the Turkish Air Force Command to reach the military goals in the shortest time and with minimum resource and effort, to support the definition of operational requirements and supply and R & D activities, to allocate training environment in order to fulfill the requirements of the Turkish Air Force Command, to support the tests of existing / developed / future weapon / aircraft systems.
A successful FMEA activity helps a team to identify potential failure modes based on past experience with similar products or processes or based on common failure mechanism logic, enabling the team to design those failures out of the system with the minimum of effort and resource expenditure, thereby reducing development time and costs.
Christy received his PhD in 1941 and joined the Illinois Institute of Technology, however he also spent time at the University of Chicago where he was recruited by Enrico Fermi to join the effort to build the first reactor, having been recommended as a theory resource by Oppenheimer.
Pooling is a resource management term that refers to the grouping together of resources ( assets, equipment, personnel, effort, etc.
The main cons are the resource consumption and that the development effort grows exponentially with the application complexity.
The effort supports force development, resource allocation, acquisition, improved operational effectiveness and efficiency, strategic analysis, scientific and technical intelligence, and the achievement of departmental policy and human resource goals.
Its founding in 1890 by the West Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church climaxed a 16 year effort to establish a center of learning in the then-young state that would reflect the values of the Methodist community, meet the church's need for an educated leadership, and provide an educational resource for the general citizenry of the state and region.

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