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military next orders outlook remains sales tent unchanged until year
Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand, Helen Johnson
military war army
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is. Barry McCaffrey
military sight balance
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance. B. H. Liddell Hart
military lying cutting
The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect. B. H. Liddell Hart
military decision battle
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy. B. H. Liddell Hart
military enemy purpose
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose. B. H. Liddell Hart
military men stupidity
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. B. H. Liddell Hart
military balance usual
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself. B. H. Liddell Hart
military taken order
While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard. B. H. Liddell Hart
names running
Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper. Dirk Koetter
names giving peppers
Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper Becca Fitzpatrick
names needs opinion
..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself. Becca Fitzpatrick
names people world
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them. Azzedine Alaia
names ideas justice
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. B. R. Ambedkar
names humanity would-be
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. B. R. Ambedkar
names appreciate people
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it. B. B. King
names odds want
Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances. Bill Simmons
names glad knows
What's your name again? That's right. I'm so glad you know your name. Bill Cosby
glasses lasts taste
As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville. Bill Vaughan
glasses life love point time tough whatever
We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on. Kelly Rowland
glasses hit kicked knocked small
From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him. Jay Dillon
glasses clouds holocaust
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin. Al Gore
glasses age needs
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. Aimee Mullins
glasses people house
People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time. Art Buchwald
glasses rooms fool
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. Carl Sandburg
glasses understanding hurtful
The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding. Alain de Botton
glasses interesting magic
3D, the ever-changing 3D. It's great. It's been really interesting. My family came to the set a few times, and I see them with their 3D glasses on. It's lovely to have them there and be a part of it, and see the magic that we're playing with, because it really is incomprehensible until you see it on a 3D screen. Eleanor Tomlinson