It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

They had suffered disproportionately great losses at Frigidus.

" Investigations into the phenomenon had occurred amidst great concern over the nature and extent of the losses.

The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great losses to the Confederate army.

The Libyan Army suffered great losses in these conflicts, especially that of the Toyota War of 1987, largely due to poor tactics and Western aid to Chad.

Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.

At first, the Margrave defeated Mieszko's forces ; subsequently the Duke's brother Czcibor defeated the Germans in the decisive stage, inflicting great losses among their troops.

The team discovers the small Tyrathca settlement, a race of ( socially ) insect-like Aliens who have suffered great losses to attacks by possessed humans, passing by a small temple being constructed even though the Tyrathca race do not have religion.

A succession of deals were made between the government and businesses, and these ultimately caused great losses for the state.

Their losses were so great that they attempted to sell everything in an auction, even their most personal belongings, which were saved at the last minute when Susan's uncle, Joshua Read, stepped up and bid for them in order to restore them to the family.

While at Oxford, Adorno suffered two great losses: his Aunt Agathe died in June 1935, while Alban Berg died in December of the same year.

" The Allies captured Mons but, having suffered such great losses, were unable to follow up their victories.

" I cannot close this notice of our losses by death without advertising to that of one, who though not placed among even the easier classes of society, but one who had to earn her daily bread by her labour, yet contributed by her talents and untiring researches in no small degree to our knowledge of the great Enalio-Saurians, and other forms of organic life entombed in the vicinity of Lyme Regis ..."

Bird strikes and the damage they cause in aviation are of particularly great importance, due to the fatal consequences and the level of economic losses caused.

In a message sent to all officers in early 1940, Raeder exclaimed: " The great aim of the Führer has set forth for the German nation requires the utmost exertion in all places ... A navy which undertakes daring actions against the enemy and suffers losses through this will be reborn on an even larger scale.

The island suffered great losses during the Jewish rising of 115 / 116 AD.

This would serve to relieve pressure on the French, as well as the Russians who had also suffered great losses.

The cultural and political instability attending these losses appears to have been of substantial aid in the efforts of various colonists to seize the great wealth in land and resources of which indigenous societies had customarily made use.

However, the losses were so great that Adolf Hitler forbade their use in such operations in the future.

The attacks were pressed with great gallantry for five hours, but repeatedly beaten back with heavy losses.

Furthermore, the fog reduced the Persian advantage in missile troops and allowing the Byzantines to charge without great losses from missile barrages.

The Sephardim were more vulnerable targets, and their language was one of the factors leading to such great losses among Sephardic communities.

Unwilling to return to Valinor, they did that under the leadership of Fingolfin, and suffered great losses along the way, which greatly added to the animosity they had for Fëanor and his sons.

Each year great amounts of sand are washed away by storm floods and coastal management has not yet seen sustainable effects in the area, so that further losses have to be expected.

The war of independence began at great losses for the patriot side, and so signed Treaty of Lircay on 3 May 1814.

In contrast to the intense Scandinavian influence in Normandy and the British Isles, Varangian culture did not survive to a great extent in the East.

Most likely, the Vorontsovs represent a collateral branch of the great Velyaminov family of Muscovite boyars, which claimed male-line descent from a Varangian noble named Šimon.

Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.

The Imperial Guard withdraws, defeated, amid great consternation.

Argentina, through its Coast Guard and Navy, has been traditionally great involved in fishery protection in the Argentine Sea with the first major incidents tracing back to the 1960s when a destroyer fired and holed a Russian trawler and continued through recent years.

Chapter 1 begins, with the rebel alliance called The Resistance, headed by Byuu, with backup from the former captain of the Kahna's Royal Guard, Matelite, and Sendak, magician and wise man from Kahna, being shaped up with the help of many other heroes from around the other kingdoms ( Lagoons ) also conquered by the empire, notably the great warrior Taicho from the kingdom of Mahal and his allies among others.

Napoleon took great care of his Guard, particularly the Old Guard.

The return of these whales is proof of the environment's improvement over the past thirty years: in 2009, a young humpback whale attempted to penetrate the gateway to the upper harbor when it passed under the Verrazano Bridge, causing the men and women ashore watching the whole debacle from Fort Hamilton a great deal of concern for its health and the safety of the Coast Guard officers trying to herd it back out to sea ( the whale returned unharmed.

However, apparently before Claudius could decide what to do with him, Aureolus was murdered by Claudius's Praetorian Guard, supposedly in revenge for Aureolus's rebellion against Gallienus which had evoked great fury in the ranks of the Imperial comitatus which obviously did not share the treasonable disloyalty to that Emperor's regime of its most senior officers.

This was a very great honour, as they were the first overseas unit ever to have mounted the Queen's Life Guard at the Horse Guards.

On his " free " day each week he had been trained in the Home Guard, but his great interest in ships and the sea led him to join the Royal Navy.

The Transportation Distinguished Service Medal was the highest decoration which could be bestowed by the Secretary of Transportation for exceptional service to the United States government in a position of great responsibility to a member of the United States Coast Guard.

The decoration was awarded to any member of the Coast Guard who provided exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility while assigned in the Department of Transportation, or in other activities under the responsibility of the Secretary of Transportation, either national or international, as may be assigned by the Secretary.

The Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to any member of the U. S. Coast Guard who distinguishes themselves by exceptionally meritorious service to the United States Government in a duty of great responsibility.

To the great Exhibition of 1878 he contributed sixteen pictures: the portrait of Alexandre Dumas, fils which had been seen at the Salon of 1877, Cuirassiers of 1805, A Venetian Painter, Moreau and his Staff before Hohenlinden, a Portrait of a Lady, the Road to La Salice, The Two Friends, The Outpost of the Grand Guard, A Scout, and Dictating his Memoirs.

At the time, there was a great deal of concern over what would happen if the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ( FDLE ) or the Florida National Guard were ordered to take custody of Schiavo.

It later was re-equipped with M1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, which were rapidly employed with great success in Desert Sheild in 1990 and Operation Desert Storm in 1991 as the main effort of the XVIII Airborne Corps and northern most US Armor units used during the eastward push to destroy the Iraqi's Republican Guard Forces.

The team was coached by former NBA Champion Jarren Jackson ; notable players on the roster included former Syracuse great and All-American Guard Lawrence Moten.

In 1921 in Paris he published a satirical anthology, A Dozen Knives in the Back of Revolution which Lenin described as " a book of great talent by the embittered to distraction White Guard.

Most units drill on military installations, military reserve centers or National Guard armories and most receive a great deal of cooperation and support from their host units.