(1) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(2) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(3) Rising losses among the nearly 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, and a desertion rate of about 50,000 a year, also support Karzai's contention that control of large parts of the country remains tenuous.
(4) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(5) As a matter of priority the UK is working with the Afghan Government to identify a safe transfer route."
(6) The United Nations said that 3,099 Afghan civilians were killed in the first six months of this year alone.
(7) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(8) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
(9) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(10) Afghan veterans, believed to include men who fought the Americans in Somalia, have also returned.
(11) Many of the losses are deaths and injuries in battle, with casualties mounting up at a rate that senior Afghan and Nato commanders both admit poses a serious risk to morale.
(12) Demonstrators gathered in the rain in the west of the Afghan capital and marched towards the city centre, chanting death to the Taliban and Islamic State , while demanding justice and protection from the government.
(13) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(14) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(15) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(16) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(17) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(18) A massive explosion in a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul has killed at least 90 people and wounded more than 461, Afghan officials have said.
(19) But the Afghan redundancy programme offered the chance to relocate to Britain only to interpreters who were still serving British forces in Helmand province in December 2012 and were employed for more than 12 months.
(20) "The last nine years have seen British forces at the forefront of the campaign, for the last five working hard in one of the most challenging areas of the country building Afghan capacity to secure and govern their own country – a process which ultimately will allow us to bring our forces home."
Crocheted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Crochet
Example Sentences:
(1) Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being “how to draw”, followed by “how to kiss” and “how to crochet”.
(2) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
(3) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
(4) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(5) Sales of knitted or crocheted scarves and shawls also edged down in 2014.
(6) It's all enormously cheering, with Gatiss once again succeeding in crocheting the macabre into something you could place a cupcake on.
(7) You have local working-class Germans who remained in Kreuzberg, and Turkish migrants collaborating; so everything is written in both German and Turkish, they’re all networked.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The gigantic crocheted tribute to Wes Anderson which appeared at Bushwick Flea Market in Brooklyn.
(8) After a “yarn-bombing” artist, with the support of the hipster Bushwick Flea market, put up a 15ft crochet homage to Wes Anderson on the exterior wall of his family home in Bushwick without asking for permission, New Yorker Will Giron wrote: “Gentrification has gotten to the point where every time I see a group of young white millennials in the hood my heart starts racing and a sense of anxiety starts falling over me.” *** The argument that gentrification represents a kind of urban neocolonialism is hard to miss.
(9) There is a palpable likemindedness, a set of shared assumptions that go beyond "I assume you're going to put some Tunisian crochet in that patchwork quilt."
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) I feared being at a party, some years hence, where all the other women were assiduously crocheting fruit stalks with their tongues, while I stood in the corner going, "So!
(12) "Then one day, overhearing me ask the shopkeeper if my crochet magazine had arrived, a total stranger suggested I come to the Knit and Natter group meeting in Biddulph library on Wednesday afternoon … It seems an exaggerated claim, I know, but the ensuing visit to the library has made such a radical change to my life.
(13) Use of the perforator, hook and crochet, and manual dilatation of the cervix had been abandoned.
(14) (A branch calling itself the Shoreditch Sisters , set up in 2007, has concerned itself with crocheting protest signs and campaigning against female genital mutilation.)
(15) "Ian Johnson, a former Boise State, All-American, Running Back, in American Gridiron Football, used to crochet all the time," reports Scott Davenport.
(16) In fact, I believe that MP Stella Creasy’s PhD in social psychology is composed entirely of sixth form essays, which she crocheted together while looking attractive and politely agreeing with Tories.
(17) This is actually how Sørensen speaks: Her sentences are constructed like intricate pieces of crochet, the words slotted into place in English that sounds as if it has been lifted from the pages of a period drama.
(18) A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Feb 28, 2017 at 10:02am PST The photo shoot, by the acclaimed fashion photographer Tim Walker, showed Watson in an open, white crocheted bolero jacket with no bra or shirt underneath.
(19) The women have asked volunteers around the world to help sew, crochet or knit pink hats with ears by using simple patterns available on the project’s website.
(20) UK manufacturers of knitted or crocheted gloves reported a 21% drop in sales between 2013 and 2014, down from £2.5m to £2.0m, the ONS said.