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One and soldiers
One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.
One night, Bäumer along with a group of other soldiers are holed up in a factory with neither rations nor comfortable bedding.
It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.
One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.
One afternoon, a group of off-duty soldiers from the U. S. Signal Corps were gathered in a bar in Old Havana.
One problem was that some of the Zairian soldiers in the area had not received pay for extended periods.
Since then Mullan and Edwards have travelled to Flanders and the site of the World War One Christmas Truce and the legendary football game between British and German soldiers.
One of their most famous victories was in 1177 during the Battle of Montgisard, where some 500 Templar knights helped several thousand infantry to defeat Saladin's army of more than 26, 000 soldiers.
One of the conventions of the genre was to depict a racial and socioeconomic cross-section of the United States, either a platoon on the front lines or soldiers training on a base, which come together to fight for the good of the country.
One well-known example included female versions of certain enemies, like Low Guards, Strike Force soldiers, and the Overpatrol.
One of her proudest moments was when she singlehandedly caused the entire United States Military to flee Killmotor Hill, armed only with a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, Theodore Roosevelt, and the fear of the soldiers.
One month after the attack, soldiers force their way into the town hall basement and find the bodies of the emergency operations staff, who have all died of suffocation.
One filmmaker was sentenced to ten years imprisonment because his portrayal of British soldiers in a movie about the American Revolution impugned the good faith of an American ally, the United Kingdom.
One of his young soldiers, Lord Hay, is engaged to her daughter, and the Duchess begs they keep him away from the battlefield so her daughter won't " wear black before she wears white ".
" One World " was Willkie's travelogue of his travels and meetings of the then-Allies heads of state, as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in regions such as Russia and Iran.
One hostage dies of a heart attack, 2 soldiers are killed by rebel fire, and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
* April 23 ( Saint George's Day ) – English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.
One Texian was wounded, and estimates of Mexican casualties range from one to three soldiers killed and from three to seven wounded.
One day, while Hana is playing the piano, two British soldiers enter the villa.
One of the soldiers is Kip, an Indian Sikh who has been trained as a sapper or combat engineer, specializing in bomb and ordnance disposal.
One of the soldiers she treated wrote in her autograph book that she was to be " Hung, drawn, & quartered ... Hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach and four, and quartered in the best house in the land.
One of his favorite tactics was to attack Christian cities on church feast days, knowing that many soldiers would be in church.
One of the more well-known stories about Sun Tzu, taken from Shiji, illustrates Sun Tzu's temperament as follows: Before hiring Sun Tzu, the King of Wu tested Sun Tzu's skills by commanding him to train a harem of 180 concubines into soldiers.
One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later ; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed ( Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun ).

One and real
One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.
One of the ironies of the present crusade for Christian unity is that there are not, relatively speaking, many real Christians to unite.
One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.
One might say, " Even though the usual ordering of the real numbers does not work, it may be possible to find a different ordering of the real numbers which is a well-ordering.
One of the real drawbacks of mail is the uneven weight distribution ; the stress falls mainly on shoulders.
One way to visualize this identification with the real numbers as usually viewed is that the equivalence class consisting of those Cauchy sequences of rational numbers that " ought " to have a given real limit is identified with that real number.
In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school ( third century onwards ), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but ( in most neoplatonic systems ) is still not itself " the One ".
One of the first was an Oregon man with a minor police record named D. B. Cooper, contacted by Portland police on the off-chance that the hijacker had used his real name, or the same alias in a previous crime.
One example involves the sale of in-game objects for real currency ( often through eBay ).
* One belief associated with the Australian property bubble is that real estate value doubles every 7 years.
One approach is to argue that all real forces drop off with distance from their sources in a known manner, so we have only to be sure that we are far enough away from all sources to ensure that no force is present.
One of these is the production of representational art ; this is quite in harmony with the history of the spread of the gospel, as it provides confirmation that the becoming man of the Word of God was real and not just imaginary, and as it brings us a similar benefit.
One of the slogans of the television advertisements stated that Intellivision was " the closest thing to the real thing "; one example in an advertisement compared golf games.
' I knew this to be a nightmare fantasy wholly without substance in the real world ... One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife.
One reason why it might not is a hypothetical preference for " the real thing ", although such an opinion could easily be mollified if virtual reality were to develop to a certain level of quality.
One theory claims that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events.
One may also study real numbers in relation to rational numbers, e. g., as approximated by the latter ( diophantine approximation ).
One of the greater problems with Modernist-style of planning was the disregard of resident or public opinion, which resulted in planning being forced upon the majority by a minority consisting of affluent professionals with little to no knowledge of real ' urban ' problems characteristic of post-Second World War urban environments ; slums, overcrowding, deteriorated infrastructure, pollution and disease, among others ( Irving 1993 ).
One bird in particular, the kalbaensis, a sub-species of the kingfishers is at the brink of extinction due to real state development by cities such as Dubai and countries such as Oman.
" Some contemporary Finns nicknamed him Suuri vaikenija ( The Great Silent One ), and Ron Clarke noted that Nurmi's persona remained a mystery even to Finnish runners and journalists: " Even to them, he was never quite real.
One way to rigorously define the delta function is as a measure, which accepts as an argument a subset A of the real line R, and returns δ ( A )
One need not choose to believe that a character in a horror film is a real person in order, for example, to choose to believe that the character is looking at the building seen in the following reverse-shot.

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