He planned on this kind of war of attrition from the minute he knew he was militarily finished. |
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Neither Britain nor France was prepared militarily for such an eventuality. |
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But leaving settlements gives us the legitimacy to use all force necessary to act militarily after disengagement. |
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To achieve this he was, unlike many free traders, ready to intervene diplomatically or if necessary militarily. |
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The United States remains involved militarily and diplomatically in the region. |
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The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound. |
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Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country. |
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And his critics largely do not oppose his view that Western powers should have the right to intervene militarily in troublesome states. |
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Such an irrational move by the Free Staters would have inevitably dragged Britain back into Southern Ireland militarily. |
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Achieving both can fortify a region militarily and put its economy on par with the world's best. |
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For example, a democratic polity cannot be militarily attacked unless it directly threatens other states. |
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Now, the loss of Spain is more politically symbolic than militarily significant. |
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Collective punishment is forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 governing militarily occupied territories. |
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Washington sent Marines into Haiti in 1915 and militarily occupied the country for nearly 20 years. |
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Forcing that outcome now is right and timely, and may obviate the need to pursue it militarily later. |
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There have been enormous changes, and still the official line of Austria is that we are militarily a non-aligned country. |
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The guerrilla war may be annoying, and deadly, but it is also, the brass tells us, militarily insignificant. |
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Choosing one, he stepped inside a little room almost militarily neat, and masculine in aura. |
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At that time Britain led the world economically, technologically and militarily. |
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The politicians will always say it is just prohibitively expensive to have mandatory national service, either militarily or in domestic service. |
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It reeks of the typical psychology and myopia of the supposed intellectually and militarily powerful. |
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What is the role of America in the world, morally, economically, militarily? |
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It seems unlikely that such operations could be militarily important, but they could be politically important and must be guarded against. |
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The peaks and fertile slopes of these biblical lands are strategically and militarily valuable. |
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In spite of its militarily advantageous location, it has witnessed profound struggle nearly from its inception. |
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In the end, it could turn out to be a militarily important partner, living off a shriveled economy. |
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I just can't think militarily, but you can, so I'm here to hear your tactical words of wisdom. |
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New alliances are emerging that neither politically nor militarily may be benign to the United States. |
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If you don't understand how to interpret them militarily, you may just stab yourself in the back with your own silver tongue. |
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They came to deal with the movement, but not because of their inability to defeat them militarily or to lock them all up. |
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Sea transportation there would get tricky if allied forces retaliate militarily against the ruling extremists in the country. |
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The only way to do that, I'm afraid, is to go in and militarily remove the regimes that are holding these countries back. |
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A recent article asserted that the government is now prepared to respond militarily to any cyberattack. |
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What he really wants is to militarily occupy 10 kilometers of the territories as another step toward his ultimate goal. |
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His cabinet shifted its attention to another Mideast republic, which it calculated would be unable to respond militarily to an air strike. |
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The Allies faced the dual challenges of crushing the Axis militarily and of considering how best to govern the postwar world. |
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The US, Britain and other Western powers backed the group financially and militarily. |
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Not surprisingly, the avowedly liberal author was a trenchant critic of the decision to intervene militarily. |
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Vietnam War, sadly, is another example of conflict won militarily but lost politically. |
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He claimed that they were not only able to be strong militarily, but they were able to be strong in robust debate. |
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The information was so militarily sensitive that the weather reports were encoded before being transmitted. |
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I think agro-terrorism is potentially much more likely than a significant or a militarily significant attack against humans. |
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Everyone is well aware who holds the whip hand both financially and militarily. |
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Western culture is assaulting them, not militarily, but culturally. |
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When the U.S. did intervene militarily, such as in the balkans, air power was the only real approach considered palatable. |
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Peter attempted to modernize and westernize the country militarily, administratively, economically, and culturally, often through the use of force. |
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And yet Dempsey and others have repeatedly said ISIS cannot be defeated militarily. |
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Two thirds of the bomb tonnage of the five year air war fell in February, March and April of 1945, most of it on militarily insignificant targets. |
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I mean to suggest that somehow the insurgents are defeating us militarily. |
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The democratic processes have been arbitrarily thrown out the window by their government, who was quick to join an alliance to militarily subdue the aggressors. |
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As a nation, it is growing stronger, commercially and militarily. |
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It may simply be a dressed up reaffirmation of their right to remain militarily neutral in any future global conflict into which the EU is sucked. |
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And there are allies in both regions that we should continue to support not just morally, but materially and militarily. |
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In the Gulf war, the United States first mustered an overwhelming force, prepared a multinational coalition, achieved militarily decisive results and got out quickly. |
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When you are weak militarily, you try to outfox the other side politically and diplomatically. |
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At the beginning of World War II, the common belief was that air evacuation of the sick and wounded was dangerous, medically unsound, and militarily impossible. |
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You see these reports hyped in various neocon journals, so there is still some sentiment to go back to try and get something going militarily against Iran. |
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Throughout the entire conflict, the availability or non-availability of merchant shipping determined what the Allies could or could not do militarily. |
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After all, the ultimate threat from the nuclear powers would be to do to Pakistan what India was in the process of doing anyway, namely, punishing it militarily. |
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The reason American popular culture dominates the globe is connected with the fact that the US is currently the most powerful nation, economically and militarily, on earth. |
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They might have resisted the new territorial states more effectively had they been able to unite politically and militarily into one large territorial state of their own. |
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As Canada moved out of the shadow of Britain in the post-war era, it was only to move into the shadow of the United States, economically, militarily and diplomatically. |
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Yet the return of Titus further highlighted the comparative insignificance of Domitian, both militarily and politically. |
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The Empire thus remained powerful throughout the seventeenth century, both militarily and economically. |
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For instance, by the Treaty of Nonsuch, Queen Elizabeth I of England agreed to assist the Dutch militarily. |
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The Capetian kings in Paris, though weak militarily, claimed a right of homage. |
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The U.S. was wrong-footed diplomatically and militarily humbled. |
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That role was no longer militarily or financially feasible, as Britain's withdrawal from Greece in 1947 painfully demonstrated. |
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As a result, King George III abandoned any hope of subduing America militarily while he had a European war to contend with. |
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The king's army was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne and at the militarily crucial Battle of Aughrim in Ireland. |
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The Brazilian military has also three times intervened militarily to overthrow the Brazilian government. |
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It is often said that Russia was militarily weak, technologically backward and administratively incompetent. |
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The plan was rejected by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee as militarily unfeasible. |
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The two countries opposed each other ideologically, politically, militarily, and economically. |
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While some kingdoms were defeated militarily and occupied, others remained nominally independent as allies of the Roman empire. |
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Employment of military hospital ships in support of the war on terror is militarily, politically, and morally appropriate. |
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Ferdinand's strategy was to continue to demand parias until the taifa was greatly weakened both militarily and financially. |
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In accordance with the 1851 treaties, Brazil intervened militarily in Uruguay as often as it deemed necessary. |
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The Susquehannocks and Erie were militarily powerful and respected by neighboring tribes. |
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In the Viking era beginning circa 793, the Norse raiders often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered. |
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His numerous reforms transformed the peripheral Qin state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralized kingdom. |
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The relationship between Genoa and Venice was almost continuously competitive and hostile, both economically and militarily. |
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The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. |
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This occurred as the French militarily suppressed the most intransigent Hassane tribes in the north. |
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However, it appears Philip never intended to disown his politically and militarily trained son. |
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At the time, Savimbi's UNITA guerrilla movement was financed and supported militarily by the apartheid regime of South Africa. |
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However, Rome was militarily confronted with the rising Sassanid Empire and growing incursions from the tribes of Germania. |
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I think that they are more aware now that we would defend Taiwan if it were militarily attacked. |
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A succession of Arian kings were militarily aggressive and presented a threat to the Papacy in Rome. |
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It is nonetheless assumed that NATO members will aid the attacked member militarily. |
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The Confederate government failed in its attempt to get Europe involved in the war militarily, particularly Britain and France. |
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A 2016 study found that Barbary corsairs were less militarily powerful after 1675 than they were at the start of the seventeenth century. |
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They were not a party to this treaty and did not recognize it until they were defeated militarily by the United States. |
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The French and British also believed that they were militarily superior and guaranteed victory. |
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These were militarily far weaker, as Strabo assessed their combined military potential at just 40,000 armed men, and were often involved in internecine warfare. |
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During the next century, France was to be militarily shattered by the Hundred Years' War, which prevented for a time any further tendencies in this direction. |
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Having been militarily defeated by the armies of Emperor Justinian I, the remnants were dispersed to the fringes of the empire and became lost to history. |
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These last areas were always peripheral to the Roman province, not militarily occupied but nonetheless influenced by Rome as part of the Roman economic sphere. |
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The most powerful of Hongwu's sons, Zhu Di, then the militarily mighty disagreed with this, and soon a political showdown erupted between him and his nephew Jianwen. |
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This was the most militarily active era of the Roman Republic. |
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An intervention was also deemed to be politically and militarily impractical given the British military's involvement with NATO operations in Yugoslavia. |
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Though militarily ineffective, the Blitz cost around 41,000 lives, may have injured another 139,000 people and did enormous damage to British infrastructure and housing stock. |
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The occupation was not militarily contested by the British until the 1982 Falklands War, during which time British sovereignty was restored by a contingent of Royal Marines. |
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Fearing a reduction of their control, the UK and France intervened militarily, bombarding Alexandria and crushing the Egyptian army at the battle of Tel El Kebir. |
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Although they lost militarily, the allies achieved their objectives with legal proclamations which granted citizenship to more than 500,000 Italians. |
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But that definition seemed too abstract in 1914 to a nation geared up for war, militarily stronger than ever, wealthy, and, above all, endowed with powerful allies. |
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They belonged to a more militarily advanced civilization with better techniques, tools, firearms, artillery, iron, steel and domesticated animals. |
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This effectively crippled William's power north of the border, and by 1212 John had to intervene militarily to support the Scottish king against his internal rivals. |
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The UK is still a key global player diplomatically and militarily. |
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Though the Gallic tribes were just as strong as the Romans militarily, the internal division among the Gauls guaranteed an easy victory for Caesar. |
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Japanese historians regard this war as a turning point for Japan, and a key to understanding the reasons why Japan may have failed militarily and politically later. |
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He regarded Japan as too weak to evict the Russians militarily, so he proposed giving Russia control over Manchuria in exchange for Japanese control of northern Korea. |
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He was named by the Bush administration as an illegal enemy combatant, and militarily detained in the country for almost three years without receiving any charges. |
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The subsequent success of Spinola's siege of Breda did not change this decision, and Spain adopted a defensive stance militarily in the Netherlands. |
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The Swedes were not militarily defeated at Fredriksten, but the whole structure and organisation of the campaign fell apart with the king's death, and the army withdrew. |
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In the end Wales was defeated militarily by the improved ability of the English navy to blockade or seize areas essential for agricultural production such as Anglesey. |
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The Soviet Union, sensing PDPA weakness, intervened militarily three months later, to depose Amin and install another PDA faction led by Babrak Karmal. |
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