Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)" ¶ 12
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

war and reference
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
There are six requirements for determining this: authority and attitude ( in reference to who declares the war ), intention and condition ( in reference to the soldiers ), merit ( of the enemy ) and just cause.
" In a reference to the first known historical Boii, Polybius relates that their wealth consisted of cattle and gold, that they depended on agriculture and war, and that a man's status depended on the number of associates and assistants he had.
His final reference to war and Politik, however, goes beyond his widely quoted antithesis: " War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.
Oral tradition and Gaelic scholars who have preserved these traditions from the Hebrides also reference the most disastrous war fought between the MacLeods and MacDonalds of Skye, culminating in the Battle of Coire Na Creiche, " when Donald Gorm Mor who handfasted a year and a day with Margaret MacLeod, a sister of Rory Mor of Dunvegan, expelled his mistress so ignominiously from Duntulm.
The reference stated that Jabir said, " The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, ' You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad — the striving of a servant ( of Allah ) against his desires ( holy war ).
Some Islamic scholars dispute the authenticity of this reference and consider the meaning of jihad as a holy war to be more important.
The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe.
The war at that time devastating Europe received only a single oblique reference.
The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.
While he makes no specific reference to the possible war with Greece or the previous war ( that might be too dangerous ), he does seem to push the message that the government should take care of its own people before attempting any other military actions.
This requires some retconning — Spenser stopped making reference to his military service in the Korean War as an eighteen-year-old, as he did in the first novels — although in 2006's Hundred Dollar Baby Spenser mentions being on " R and R " in Japan before going back to the war, although exactly which war is not made clear.
He did get into trouble with the police for various crimes including smuggling in North Africa and more than once had a character reference from former intelligence officers who confirmed his great contribution to the war effort.
During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname " MiG Alley " in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.
* A contemporary account This reference should be to the 1838 translation of a contemporary chronicle on http :// www. hillsdalesites. org / personal / hstewart / war / Ren / 1471-Tewkesbury. htm.
Raeder was obsessed with the fear that " the war would end before the heavy units had been engaged " and that the sailors would " fail " in their duty to the fatherland " due to inactivity ", the last a veiled reference to the mutiny of 1918.
Following the war, Bill Clinton and other western politicians and media continued to use the term, usually in reference to ongoing attempts to dismantle Iraq's weapons programs.
* In the song by Warrant, " April 2031 " the band makes reference that nuclear war will have greatly altered the Earth.
Emperor Francis told Napoleon he could count on Austria for the " triumph of the common cause ," a reference to the impending war.
His symbols were an indigo jar ( a reference to his murder of a certain indigo planter named Donou, whose body he made sport of by rolling it around in his indigo jar and whose name he appended to his own original name, ' Dako '), a tinder box, and a war club.
His main symbol is the akpan bird, a trade gun ( flintlocks became the standard issue to the Dahomean army during his reign ), and a Dahomey Amazon striking her head against a tree ( a reference to a humorous war story stemming from one of his military campaigns ).
According to Charlie Wilson's reference, Israel proliferated the sensitive and advance weapon technology to Pakistan, while reverse engineered the Soviet weapons after Israel had confiscated from PLO during the Lebanon war, and channeled these weapons to Mujahedin.

war and is
And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
All his people ask for is no more war.
Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.
It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.
Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.
It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.
`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.
The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.
war is the result of mistrust and lack of understanding between people.
Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

1.512 seconds.