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The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.
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In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).
The authors of the U. S. Army's Area Handbook series said at the time that '.. the Army and Gendarmery ( sic ) were effective forces in being, but the Navy and Air Force were token forces primarily for prestige and with little actual defense value.
This initiative shows that since 1975, there are now many positions for which there is little training gap at all between Reservists and Permanent Force members
Scott Chitwood of TheForce. Net criticized the fact that Ackbar's death in The Unifying Force was so abrupt and only mentioned in passing by the characters: " He deserved a little more attention.
In 1960, Republic Aviation acquired a minority interest in the Dutch aircraft company Fokker, and attempted to market a Fokker-designed attack plane to the Air Force, but the Air Force showed little interest in the foreign design and no contracts were offered.
However, these experiences proved of little use in the Winter war against Finland in 1939, where scores of inexperienced Soviet bomber and fighter pilots were shot down by a relatively small number of Finnish Air Force ( FAF ) pilots.
The leaders who planned and maneuvered for an independent postwar Air Force during World War II had little confidence in the army reserves, especially the state-dominated National Guard.
At the CID meeting after the Agadir Crisis Sir Arthur Wilson ( First Sea Lord ) gave a poor account of the Royal Navy's plans to land troops on the Baltic Coast, or possibly at Antwerp, believing that the Germans would be halfway to Paris by the time an Expeditionary Force was ready, and that the four to six divisions Britain was expected to be able to muster would have little effect in a war with 70-80 + divisions on each side.
" Air Force Station " is used in the name of those with very little or no flight activity ( e. g. Onizuka Air Force Station ).
After the war, Leigh-Mallory thought of re-entering the legal profession, but with little prospect of a law career, he stayed in the recently created Royal Air Force ( RAF ), taking command of the Armistice Squadron.
From 1946 through 1949, what little money became available was used to buy new planes ( B-50 Superfortress, B-36 Peacemaker ) for SAC, and as the newer aircraft became available, the older B-29s were sent to storage depots or sent to Air Force Reserve units for training missions.
RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station situated a little to the south of the historic small village of Odiham in Hampshire, England.
The public face of Blue Book continued to be the official Air Force investigation of UFOs, but the reality was it had essentially been reduced to doing very little serious investigation, and had become almost solely a public relations outfit with a debunking mandate.
There can be little doubt that Hitler's state architecture, even when seen today in photographs of architectural models, conveys a sense of " Power and Force " ( Gr Macht und Gewalt ), which of course Hitler wanted it to embody.
* The German Luftwaffes chief of intelligence, Colonel Josef " Beppo " Schmid, reports that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force are " clearly inferior in strength and armament in comparison to the Luftwaffe ," that even an entry into World War II by the United States would not alone improve the status of Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little chance in combat with the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine fighter.
* July 4 – In retaliation for the British attack at Mers-el-Kébir, French Air Force bombers raid Gibraltar, causing little damage.
* June 8 – Royal Air Force Fairey IIIC seaplanes from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier / seaplane carrier bomb four Bolshevik naval vessels in North Russia, with little effect.
Northern Force would be built around several aircraft carriers, but these would have very few aircraft or trained aircrew, and was in reality little more than " bait ".
The operations of General Edmund Allenby, the British commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Megiddo, achieved decisive results, including the capture of great numbers of prisoners and many miles of territory, at comparatively little cost, in contrast to many offensives during the First World War.
On April 25, 2006, a little over five years since the launch of the now-defunct Toonami Reactor, Cartoon Network and VIZ Media announced plans to launch Toonami Jetstream, a new ad-supported streaming video service featuring Toonami series like Naruto, Samurai Jack, Megas XLR and IGPX and the internet webcast premieres of Hikaru no Go, MÄR, Eyeshield 21, The Prince of Tennis, MegaMan Star Force, Kiba, MegaMan NT Warrior, & Zoids: Genesis, the latter two of which never ended up being streamed.
A Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue movie called Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force ( later broadcast as two-part Trakeena's Revenge ) sold on VHS through McDonalds purportedly used " Circlescan 4D " technology, which is based on the Pulfrich effect, but there was very little 3D present.
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I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.
Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.
More likely, you simply told yourself, as you handed us the book, that it mattered little what we incanted providing we underwent the discipline of incantation.
But how little love we give him.
While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.
Further, I would hope that we could pay attention to little things.
I would hope that we could create the recognition in the Department and overseas that those who come across little things going wrong have the responsibility for bringing these to the attention of those who can do something about them.
After figuring out how to regulate the barrels so that they shot to the same point of impact, we fired this little 20-inch-barrel job on my home range and in Marlin's underground test gallery.
Very little in today's living provides the strength we need and nothing provides the flexibility.
Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.
The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.
I know something that is much more fun that we can do on our little lawn ''.
If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.
As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.
We should say that we made our point with feeling the first time and little or no feeling the second time, but that it was the same point we were making.
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`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.
And besides, the chick had a little something the others didn't have.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;
He seemed a little surprised that it should have caused any particular trouble anywhere.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.
The Burmese appeared to have little knowledge of British power or any idea of trade.
The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.
As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.
The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.
The Dominican people have known no democratic institutions and precious little freedom for a generation, and all alternative leadership has been suppressed.
Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.
At that point the Administration will have little reason to hang onto Gen. Swing.
The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.
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