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All of this after a totally unbelievable scene where she is rescued by him after he comes out of nowhere to overpower an
armed
and dangerous killer who was about to blow her away...I didn't believe it any more than I believed her manhandling several 6 foot 2 inch 200 lb thugs throwing them against the car and handcuffing them like they were match sticks.
In World War II (when this film is set), homing pigeons more or less cleaned up with 32 out of 54 awarded for displaying conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst serving with British Commonwealth
armed
forces or civil emergency services (according to Wikipedia).
Probably the most serious and darkest of all the classic 'man and machine' TV shows of the eighties, Airwolf follows the exploits of Strinfellow Hawke and co. as he fights evil with his lethal and supercool chopper which is
armed
to the teeth and incredibly fast.
In this case, he gets beaten to it by an
armed
gang.
It's a dangerous life and when
armed
rivals steal their taxi, Lucky decides to return to crime.
And when they come across a couple of weirdos
armed
with guns out hunting, why aren't they just a bit perturbed that their group is alone in the forest with them overnight?
The great irony is that Putin is now seeking to do in Ukraine exactly what Assad has done so successfully: portray a legitimate political opposition as a gang of thugs and terrorists, while relying on provocations and lies to turn non-violent protest into violent attacks that then justify an
armed
response.
An Iran
armed
with nuclear weapons (or one political decision away from possessing them) would drastically alter the Middle East’s strategic balance.
In large part out of concern for human rights, the Charter prohibits one nation's use of force against another unless the Security Council authorizes the attack or unless the attack is a self-defensive response to
armed
aggression across recognized borders.
Given this, and the challenges of administering a new country, integrating the “princely states” into the Indian Union, and reorganizing the divided
armed
forces, they could have been forgiven for demanding dictatorial powers.
Over the last 14 years, the US has given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid and
armed
it with lethal weapons, ranging from F-16s and P-3C Orion maritime aircraft to Harpoon anti-ship missiles and TOW anti-armor missiles.
They are increasingly convinced that “victory” will be elusive in any asymmetric conflict between states, however powerful, and religiously driven
armed
insurgents.
Because of these threats, we requested
armed
police protection on the day of the book’s launch in 2009.
Most recently, gunmen attacked an undercover security minibus in Cairo's Helwan suburb last May, killed all eight
armed
security agents, and vanished into the working-class cement jungle.
Kim Il-chol, 80, an admiral and vice-minister for the
armed
forces, was removed from his post in May.
In the meantime, the
armed
forces appear to remain loyal to Kim, willing to carry out his orders even at the risk of bringing the country to the brink of war, such as by sinking the South Korean naval ship Cheonan in March and warning of “powerful nuclear deterrence” against joint South Korean and American military drills.
Representatives of the
armed
forces announced that, as defenders of the constitution, they could not support the president.
After more than 60 years of changes in military leadership coming only after coups, the civilian-led government replaced the commander of the
armed
forces at the end of his term.
This has bred corrupt and repressive governments and
armed
conflict.
Because of the trauma of Hitler’s intention to murder all of the Jews, genocide has become the one compelling reason for military action, including
armed
invasion of other countries.
New technologies – offensive cyber capabilities,
armed
drones, robots, and electronic, laser, and standoff weapons – carry new dangers.
Sochi is located in the North Caucasus region, which, following the Soviet Union’s dissolution, experienced a long and brutal
armed
insurgency in Chechnya, while neighboring Dagestan, in particular, later became a hotbed of Islamist extremism and terrorism.
Similarly, in 2004, hundreds of schoolchildren in Beslan, North Ossetia, were seized by an
armed
group.
In 2005,
armed
Islamists seized Nalchik, a regional capital in the North Caucasus, and held it for a day.
Their tactic of choice is no longer
armed
insurgency, as in the 1990’s, or raids by groups of militants, as in the 2000’s, but individual acts of terror.
A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily
armed
Demilitarized Zone.
After the Vietnam War, for example, the United States’
armed
forces suppressed what it had learned about counter-insurgency, only to rediscover it the hard way in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Accelerating this shift is the replacement of interstate war by
armed
conflict involving non-state actors such as insurgent groups, terrorist networks, militias, and criminal organizations.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and
armed
operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
But imagine now that civilian workers there, powerless to defend themselves, came under sudden attack by
armed
elements.
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