Following a Pentagon survey that showed only 55 % of soldiers and 40 % of Marines would report a colleague for abusing civilians, Mattis told his Marines in May 2007, “ Whenever you show anger or disgust toward civilians, it's a victory for Al Qaeda and other insurgents .” Reflecting an understanding of the need for restraint in war as key to defeating an insurgency, he added that, " Every time you wave at an Iraqi civilian, Al Qaeda rolls over in its grave.

He led his unit to within 130 km of Baghdad before being relieved of command on April 4, 2003 by Major General James Mattis, the commanding officer of the 1st Marine Division.

On 5 April, commanding officer Colonel Joe D. Dowdy was relieved by Major General James Mattis and replaced by Colonel John Toolan, a highly unusual act.

But his solution of the model was incorrect, the correct one was given by Mattis and Lieb 1965.

Duke Records was an American record label, started in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 by David James Mattis ( WDIA program director and DJ ) and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company.

Letter written by Mattis to the 1st Marine Division before the 2003 Iraq War

General Mattis popularized the slogan " no better friend, no worse enemy ", ( originally coined by the Roman Sulla as his own epitaph in 78 BC ) for his command.

On June 17, 2008 Military Judge Colonel Steven Folsom dismissed all charges against Lt Colonel Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds that General James Mattis, who approved the filing of charges against Chessani, was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the incident.

The term has been referenced by CENTCOM commander General James Mattis, and has also been adopted by the British military, including former Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mike Jackson and former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, and also by former Canadian Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier.

Colonel Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds that General James Mattis, who approved the filing of charges against Chessani, was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the incident.

For example, the notion of gauge invariance forms the basis of the well-known Mattis spin glasses, which are systems with the usual spin degrees of freedom for i = 1 ,..., N, with the special fixed " random " couplings Here the ε < sub > i </ sub > and ε < sub > k </ sub > quantities can independently and " randomly " take the values ± 1, which corresponds to a most-simple gauge transformation This means that thermodynamic expectation values of measurable quantities, e. g. of the energy are invariant.

Quantitatively it is identical with the loop-product along a closed loop W. However, for a Mattis spin glass-in contrast to " genuine " spin glasses-the quantity P < sub > W </ sub > never becomes negative.

He has worked on Google Servlet Engine along with Peter Mattis.

After forming a partnership with Mattis in the summer of 1952, Don Robey ( founder of Houston's Peacock Records ) took control of Duke.

The current commander is General James Mattis, USMC, who took command from acting commander Lieutenant General John R. Allen, USMC on 11 August 2010.

After being promoted to lieutenant general, Mattis took command of Marine Corps Combat Development Command.

The Pentagon announced on May 31, 2006 that LtGen Mattis was chosen to take command of I Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

On 11 September 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that President George W. Bush had nominated Mattis for appointment to the rank of general to command U. S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mattis was promoted to four-star general and took control of JFCOM / SACT on 9 November 2007.

For positive J < sub > 0 </ sub > the thermodynamics of the Mattis spin glass corresponds in fact simply to a ferromagnet, just because these systems have no " frustration “ at all.

* USMC General James N. Mattis — United States Marine Corps.

The first competitive fixture was against Barnet, which ended in a 2 – 1 win after Dwayne Mattis scored the opening League goal at the ground in the first half.

In 1995, while students at the University of California at Berkeley, Kimball and his classmate Peter Mattis developed the first version of The GIMP as a class project.

As the only child of Mattis, the chief, she is expected to become the leader of the clan someday.

* D. C. Mattis and E. H. Lieb: Journal of Mathematical Physics, 6, 304 ( 1965 )

Other visits have included National Security Advisors James L. Jones and Thomas Donilon ; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ; Secretaries of Treasury Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner ; Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ; CENTCOM Commanders General David Petraeus and James Mattis ; Homeland Security Advisor John O. Brennan and Special Envoys George J. Mitchell, Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and a large number of sub cabinet officials.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

The defection of the commander of the Byzantine navy, megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos, and the general Andronikos Angelos, played a key role in allowing the rebellious forces to enter Constantinople.

Celsius ' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala.

After moving to Sarov in 1950, Sakharov played a key role in the development of the first megaton-range Soviet hydrogen bomb using a design known as " Sakharov's Third Idea " in Russia and the Teller-Ulam design in the United States.

The city's appearance today is predominantly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century.

The introduction also employs the use of the mediant to tonic relationship which further distorts the tonic key until it is finally played by the bassoon in the lowest possible register.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were invented for the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets, and tension-spoked wheels.

The iconic image of Big Brother ( played by David Graham ) played a key role in Apple's 1984 television commercial introducing the Macintosh.

In two, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate, a friend from his circus years, Nick Cravat, played a key supporting role, and both actors impressed audiences with their acrobatic prowess.

Cuban forces played a key role in the Ogaden War 1977 / 78 between Ethiopia and Somalia and kept a substantial garrison stationed in Ethiopia.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ), established in 1908, played a key role in making chemical engineering considered an independent science, and unit operations central to chemical engineering.

However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963.

Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.

Concepts of centripetal and centrifugal force played a key early role in establishing the set of inertial frames of reference and the significance of fictitious forces, even aiding in the development of general relativity in which gravity itself becomes a fictitious force.

In 1991 and 2000, Djibouti played a key role in the search for peace in Somalia by hosting Somali Reconciliation Conferences.

Historically, utilization of forest products, including timber and fuel wood, has played a key role in human societies, comparable to the roles of water and cultivable land.

Similar versions of the game are played, using the same premise, but using a different ' key word '.

The attacks played a key role in forcing an armistice but brought an angry rebuke from King Amanullah.

Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s.

Thompson played a key role in both END and CND throughout the 1980s, speaking at innumerable public meetings, corresponding with hundreds of fellow activists and sympathetic intellectuals, and doing more than his fair share of committee work.

Sheedy played a key role in Richmond's premiership sides of the mid-70s.

He played a key role in the design of the first American flag.