and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Of course, grave guiltiness may be imputed to the military action of any nation, or to the action of any leader or leaders, which for any supposed good `` permits '', in this sense, the termination of the human race by human action.

and by deriving legitimate decision backward from whatever may conceivably or possibly or probably result, whether by anyone's doing or by accident, it finds itself driven to inaction, to non-political action in politics and non-military action in military affairs, and to the not very surprising discovery that there are now no distinctions on which the defense of justice can possibly be based.

Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.

* Harris, Jonathan, ' Collusion with the infidel as a pretext for military action against Byzantium ', in Clash of Cultures: the Languages of Love and Hate, ed.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

With the support of the nobles, Arnulf held a Diet at Tribur and deposed Charles in November 887, under threat of military action.

During the first 20 years of his rule, Abd ar-Rahman avoided military action against the northern Christian kingdoms, Asturias and Navarre.

One of Ahmad Shah's first military action was the capture Ghazni from the Ghilzais, and then wresting Kabul from the local ruler.

In 2002, Clinton warned that pre-emptive military action against Iraq would have unwelcome consequences.

On the recent airstrike resolution supporting military action in Libya, Brazil joined fellow BRICS in the Council and abstained.

There was an ever-present danger that some ill-considered military or other action by the Allies might alert the enemy to the possibility that their codes were being broken.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

Uribe's supporters in turn believe that increased military action is a necessary prelude to any serious negotiation attempt with the guerrillas and that the increased security situation will help to, in the long term, focus more actively on reducing most wide-scale abuses and human rights violations on the part of both the armed groups and any rogue security forces that might have links to the paramilitaries.

Cultural imperialism can take various forms, such as an attitude, a formal policy, military action, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony.

It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.

Robert McNamara supported the naval blockade as a strong but limited military action that left the US in control.

The Rising initially lacked wide public support within Ireland, and was suppressed by the British military authorities within a week.

As a result, the national militia of Cuba, established by the Constitution and a potential instrument for liberal agitation, was dissolved, a permanent executive military commission under the orders of the governor was created, newspapers were closed, elected provincial representatives were removed and other liberties suppressed.

The resistance was suppressed by police and military power.

The uprising ( locally known as the Limazo ) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.

The phalanx is an example of a military formation in which single combat and other individualistic forms of battle were suppressed for the good of the whole.

The strike was suppressed by the Honduran military, but the following year additional labor disturbances occurred at the Standard Fruit Company's holding in La Ceiba.

On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.

The coup was suppressed after one day of fighting in the capital when pro-Taya military forces arrived from the countryside.

By October they had largely been suppressed, and the NLF switched to grenade attacks against off-duty military personnel and police officers elsewhere in the Aden Colony.

The riots were eventually suppressed with military assistance from St. Thomas, and reinforcements of British troops dispatched by the Governor of the Leeward Islands from Antigua.

The uprising occurred during the Nazi German military occupation of Poland, and the monument is to those killed by the German troops who suppressed the uprising and deported remaining ghetto residents to the concentration camps for extermination.

All these factors have created in complex social and political stresses, and led to somewhat frequent protests and / or social conflicts, some of which have been violently suppressed by the Indonesian police or military.

After high-ranking military officials suppressed the new evidence, a military court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy after the second day of his trial.

Available firearms range from standard-issue military assault rifles such as the M16A2 and the AK-74, machine guns, and more specialized weaponry such as sniper rifles and suppressed submachine guns, all of which have iron sights or telescopic sights that the player can use to aim.

From 1747 to 1831 Iraq was ruled, with short intermissions, by Mamluk officers of Georgian origin who succeeded in asserting autonomy from the Sublime Porte, suppressed tribal revolts, curbed the power of the Janissaries, restored order, and introduced a program of modernization of the economy and the military.

A similar discrediting occurred when Austria suppressed a popular uprising in Vienna by military force.

He was made governor of Picardy in 1619 ; suppressed an uprising of nobles in 1620 ; and in 1621, with slight military ability or achievement, was appointed constable of France.

Despite concerted opposition, ' Arian ', or nontrinitarian Christian churches persisted throughout Europe and North Africa, in various Gothic and Germanic kingdoms, until suppressed by military conquest or voluntary royal conversion between the fifth and seventh centuries.

In 1826 Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire suppressed the Janissaries and began sweeping reforms of the military.

The demonstrations were suppressed by military forces, including elite units of the Special Operations Command.

However, on 7 July 1962, a peaceful student protest on Rangoon University campus was suppressed by the military, killing over 100 students.

On January 24, 1941, Antonescu successfully suppressed a Legion-inspired military coup, resulting in the Legion being forced out of a governing role and losing its government protection.

The Ottomans had suppressed the formation of a Serbian state along with its military from 1540 until 1804, the year of the first Serbian uprising.