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time and war
In this country there's a war on every time the grass turns green.
And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.
He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.
If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare.
But the Communists never gave sufficient provocation at any one time for the United States to want to risk a limited or an all-out war over Laos.
Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.
And in a concluding chapter about America's stance in the contemporary world, one senses certain misplacements of emphasis and a failure to come to grips with the baffling riddle of our time: How to deal with a wily and aggressive enemy without appeasement and without war.
The war effort was the source of continued disparagement of Lincoln, and dominated his time and attention.
Whilst a reasonable road infrastructure has existed within Angola, time and the war have taken their toll on the road surfaces, leaving many severely potholed, littered with broken asphalt.
By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army ( the " war bands ").
David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.
For some time afterward the war was carried on, the advantage being invariably on the side of David.
A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.
The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.
Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls-on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army at the time was to destroy the land outside the walls.
" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.
The Assyrians fought successfully against overwhelming numbers for a time, until their Russian allies left the war and the Armenian line broke.
While the older men have already had a life of professional and personal experience before the war, Bäumer and the men of his age have had little life experience or time for personal growth.
He says, " It is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war ," when the group hears several wounded horses writhe and scream for a long time before dying during a bombardment.
By the time of the war, they fielded the SdKfz 10 / 4 and 6 / 2, cargo halftracks mounting single 20 mm or 37 mm AA guns ( respectively ).

time and citadel
At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.
The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great " Treasury of Atreus " had borne silent witness for ages before Heinrich Schliemann's time ; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farthest, a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic civilization.
Except for the citadel and churches, Elbing at the time was more of a small village by modern standards.
In some Transylvanian cities, such as Brașov ( at that time the Transylvanian Saxon citadel of Kronstadt ), Romanians were not even allowed to reside within the city walls.
However, no conclusive evidence has been brought forward to confirm any theory of why the Mycenaean citadel and others around it fell at this time.
They returned ten years later during the reign of Gyges ' son Ardys II ; this time they captured the city, with the exception of the citadel.
The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great " Treasury of Atreus " had borne silent witness for ages before Heinrich Schliemann's time ; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or at farthest a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic, civilization.
Both Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu at one time considered expanding the citadel and Calais into a great walled city for military harbour purposes but the proposals came to nothing.
She fortified the place, which she used as a citadel of war against the Africans, who kept her from the shore .” Justin ( 18: 5 10-17 ) also mentions the time on this island, which he names as Cothon, and says that Dido and her company built a circle of houses there.
In some Transylvanian cities, such as Braşov ( at that time the Transylvanian Saxon citadel of Kronstadt ), Romanians were not even allowed to reside within the city walls.
Bohemond IV who had been forced to leave Antioch to defend Tripoli during the feudal rebellion of Renart of Nephin was at Tripoli at that time, but the commune and the Templars held the citadel in Antioch stoutly, and were able to expel the Armenians.
During this time the cannonade and bombardment from the citadel, and on it from the batteries on nearby hills, continued unabated.
## Life and Thought in the Second Century: AD 96 – 192 ” If Rome had not engulfed so many men of alien blood in so brief a time, if she had passed all these newcomers through her schools instead of her slums, if she had treated them as men with a hundred potential excellences, if she had occasionally closed her gates to let assimilation catch up with infiltration, she might have gained new racial and literary vitality from the infusion, and might have remained a Roman Rome, the voice and citadel of the West .” ( p. 366 )
During the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the citadel of Cascais was occupied by the French, with General Junot staying some time in the village.
In 1420, the citadel was attacked for the first time by the Ottomans, but defended successfully by Moldavian Prince Alexander the Kind.
In a world where time moves faster than normal, Mikhail had established a citadel for himself on the top of a massive hill.
Although fortifications such as the citadel at Kuélap may have been an adequate defense against the invading Inca, it is possible that by this time the Chachapoyas settlements had become decentralized and fragmented after the threat of Huari invasion had dissipated.
The citadel and sanctuary were constructed at the time of King David and Solomon.
Among the most significant artifacts unearthed from this time are ostraca dating from the mid-7th century BCE, referring to this citadel as the House of Yahweh ( Biblical term ).
In Râșnov a citadel was built around the year 1215 by the Teutonic Knights and it was mentioned for the first time in 1331.
The High Evolutionary decided it was time to regain control of Mount Wundagore, and set off with a team towards the citadel.
this time, to determine whether he could be reintroduced into the realms or returned to the white citadel.
However, in the 16th century, the religious wars raged, and almost all the great captains of the time, such as Henri de Navarre, the future King Henry IV, and the Sire of Brantôme ( who would become a prior of Saint-Pierre-de-Royan ), fought under the walls of the citadel.
In fact, during Dowlatshah's time, Kermanshah had become a citadel against the Ottomans.

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