Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough" ¶ 64
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

whole and campaign
The destruction of the whole Theban army is said to only have been averted by the ability of Epaminondas, who was serving in the campaign, but not as general.
But his army was part of a whole organization and his operations part of a great campaign.
Aide Greg Schneiders suggested an unusual strategy, similar to Glenn's personal campaign and voting style, in which he would avoid appealing to narrow special interest groups and instead seek to win support from ordinary Democratic primary voters, the " constituency of the whole ".
Because of the composition of the British Army, at this point a volunteer force with many battalions comprising men from particular localities, these losses ( and those of the campaign as a whole ) had a profound social impact.
On 28 February 1851, Urbiztondo launched another campaign against Jolo, destroying the whole town by fire and confiscating 112 pieces of artillery.
The campaign started with an operation against the Suebi in North-Western Spain, lasted along the whole 459 and led by the magister militiae Nepotianus and the Gothic comes Sunieric.
Peter, probably aided by knights from France and Catalonia, certainly did make war on Zaragoza in 1101, in a campaign that lasted the whole year.
These losses, together with those incurred on December 23 and January 8, added up to 386 killed, 1, 521 wounded and 552 missing for the whole campaign.
Naples offered the first resistance of the whole campaign, withstanding a siege with the help of Margaritus of Brindisi's fleet, until much of the army had succumbed to malaria and disease.
Clausewitz defined the ‘ order of battle ’ as “ that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts, or sections, of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war .”
In a separate interview he said that increasing corporate control " is very, very dangerous and we have put the whole issue of net neutrality right into the heart of our campaign platform ," and that the Internet is " a public tool for exchanging ideas and I particularly want to say that if we don ’ t fight to preserve it, we could lose it.
At Sari Bair they were the only troops in the whole campaign to reach and hold the crest line and look down on the Straits, which was the ultimate objective.
However not listening the plans of the King, the French forces marched to their defeat in the Battle of Nicopolis, and the whole campaign ended in a disaster.
Naples was the first time that Henry met resistance on the whole campaign, holding well into the southern summer, by which time much of the army had succumbed to malaria and disease and the imperial army was forced to withdraw from the kingdom altogether.
Marie claims that by this point in the campaign the British should have known better than to attempt an armoured advance unsupported by infantry in the bocage, and goes on to criticise both sides: the British for fighting an uncoordinated infantry and tank battle during the morning of 13 June, and the Germans for doing much the same throughout the whole day.
Unwilling at this point to risk his cavalry without infantry support ( as he had done throughout the whole campaign ), Raglan issued his first order to the Cavalry Division at 08: 00 " Cavalry to take ground to the left of the second line of redoubts occupied by the Turks ".
The siege had cost the Allies a great deal in men and resources, and had pinned down William III's army through the whole summer campaign ; but the recapture of Namur, together with the earlier prize of Huy, had restored the Allied position on the Meuse, and had secured communications between their armies in the Spanish Netherlands and those on the Moselle and Rhine.
As Daniel Defoe observed in 1697, " Now it is frequent to have armies of 50, 000 men of a side spend the whole campaign in dodging or, as it is genteelly called observing one another, and then march off into winter quarters.
The only decisive action during the whole war came in Ireland where William III crushed the forces of James II in a campaign for legitimacy and control of the British Isles.
William Douglass, a prominent physician in Boston, wrote a series of pamphlets ( published by Rogers and Fowle ) attacking Governor Shirley, Commodore Knowles and the whole conduct of the campaign against and occupation of Louisbourg.
A new campaign started on February 25, 2008, without Sykes ' character ( the spokesapple ) with its slogan, " It's a whole new neighborhood.
During a media launch event for an anti-litter campaign with Margaret Thatcher, Ridley was seen during the whole event with a cigarette in his mouth.
When the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Gabriel Monod, with his cousins Alfred and Sarah Monod, organized an ambulance with which he followed the whole campaign, from Sedan to Le Mans.

whole and which
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
The beatniks crave a sexual experience in which their whole being participates.
But the pseudo-capitalism which dictates our whole economy as well as our politics and social life, will not stand close scrutiny.
It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;
Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.
Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.
There are houseboats which are literally homes afloat, accommodating whole families in comfort and convenience.
His life-long friend, Serge Koussevitzky, gave unreservedly of his praise and brilliant performances in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.,, to which he added broadcastings and recordings for the whole nation.
and translate the whole into profit and loss and balance sheet figures which management can act on with some assurance??
With the whole camp exposed to view we could see the variety of canvas shelters in which Americans are camping now.
Max, in a fit of despair, takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ), at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's disease and dies.
The desired amounts of inactive chlorine and radioactive chlorine were likewise condensed in these cells on the vacuum line following which they were frozen down and the manifold as a whole was sealed off.
Now consider the transformation of the lines of a bundle with vertex, P, on **zg which is effected by the involution as a whole.
Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.
The Lincoln Mills decision authorizes a whole new body of federal `` common law '' which, as Mr. Justice Frankfurter pointed out in dissent, leads to one of the following `` incongruities '': `` ( ( 1 ) conflict in federal and state court interpretations of collective bargaining agreements ; ;
An optimal policy is one which in some sense gets the best out of the process as a whole by maximizing the value of the product.
There may be instances in which, if economic pressure is to be undertaken at all, this would have to be applied without discrimination against a whole people.
It is like a mysterious epidemic which, starting first with Abigail and Parris, spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through the whole town until all have been infected by it.
Gunny symbolized so much that was unpleasant -- Tolley, the indifference with which the Fairbrothers and indeed the whole neighborhood now treated her and which she would die rather than acknowledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and sympathy in her present condition, her disgusting swollen stomach.
Tylor formulated one of the early and influential anthropological conceptions of culture as " that complex whole, which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by as of society.
The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

0.731 seconds.