(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(3) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(4) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(5) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(6) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(7) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(8) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(9) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(10) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(11) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) In government, Abbott had relished the daily combat but his officials complained he wasn’t enamoured by detailed policy work.
(14) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(15) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(16) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
(17) Al-Shamiri has been held as an enemy combatant without charge at Guantánamo since 2002.
(18) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(19) In addition, multiple regression analysis was used to examine predictive relationships between premilitary adjustment, military adjustment, combat exposure, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(20) The prime minister could publish the reply upon his return from the opening of climate change talks in Paris on Tuesday next week, depending on the progress made in discussions between Russia and the west on the best approach to combating Isis.
Litigious
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
(a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
(a.) Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Savile referred to himself as "Litigiousness", given his willingness to take people to court, telling police: "Now if you're Litigiousness, people get quite nervous actually because for somebody that don't want to go to court, I love it."
(2) The differences are established in the manifestations and course of litigious-paranoid disorders of psychogenic personality-related origin and nonpathological querulousness.
(3) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(4) A bit of a reality check on how litigious Americans actually are would help us get there.
(5) Finally, in the light of present day litigious trends, the question of the propriety of the policy is posed.
(6) This is partly because we practice in a generally more litigious society, but also because we only look superficially at negligence.
(7) The discussion will stress current knowledge regarding trauma and parkinsonism, and it will also review the issues of the possible role of the current litigious society's influence on determining a role for trauma in Parkinson's disease.
(8) All I ask is that she be happy about her sexuality, in spite of an unauthorised biographer (one of the few sources from where tabloids can still borrow potentially litigious information) enabling the Sun to out her with all the horny indignity of a rejected ex-lover.
(9) It also protects the investigator from embarrassing and potentially litigious situations.
(10) In the litigious sense, any deviation from optimal, ideal care or any unusual observations, such as unusual or atypical fetal heart rate patterns, are often causally linked to the adverse outcome.
(11) This being a story about powerful, litigious people, it was composed in befittingly genteel terms; the pair are described as having a "friendship".
(12) Eulex officials have pointed to an explosive fallout Bamieh had with a previous employer, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, in a bid to portray her as habitually litigious.
(13) In our increasingly litigious society there is persistence of an attitude that posttraumatic headache (or other injuries) will either improve or disappear following resolution of a claim.
(14) With changing social mores and more sophisticated consumerism, increasing litigious tendencies within the general population and a more informed public, there is a parallel increase in malpractice lawsuits related to this complication.
(15) In an attempt to better prepare students for dental practice in a litigious environment with cost-containment pressures, quality assurance requirements, and increased patient expectations, the New Jersey Dental School has begun planning and implementing various programs to teach students and faculty ethics, jurisprudence, and risk management.
(16) So we're really not all that litigious, yet we continue to be treated with kid gloves as though all it will take is a scraped knee for us to be on the phone to our lawyers.
(17) When stakeholders and customers of the bank are at risk of losing hundreds of millions or billions of pounds, situations can become very litigious and those are very scary numbers to be litigated," he said.
(18) This opened the floodgates for litigious celebrities.
(19) An excessive intensity and length of querulousness, as related to the objective value of the psychogenesis, the more pronounced trend to litigiousness manifestations, progressive loss of their relation to situational cues, aggressive traits in behavior, are all characteristic of litigious-paranoid disorders.
(20) Courts, administrative agencies and doctors are occasionally but stubbornly confronted with reproaches and viciously hostile attacks by habitual litigious grouchers and fault finders to whom court judgements or counsels are purposeful personal insults.