(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) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
Headquarters
Definition:
(n. sing.) The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order.
Example Sentences:
(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) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(3) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(4) He was given a standing ovation as he arrived on stage for the launch event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, San Francisco.
(5) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(6) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(7) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(8) It’s not like we’re pushing our way in here,” said CEO Doug McMillon during this week’s sustainability summit at company headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.
(9) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
(10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(11) Kenichiro Yagi, seafood entrepreneur from Ofunato Businessman Kenichiro Yagi gets to work on the planned new headquarters for his business in Ofunato.
(12) These activities will be supported by organizational, financial and information activities at WHO headquarters and in the WHO Regional Offices.
(13) The letter templates are aimed at what party headquarters describes as “target groups” in the electorate, placing women and pensioners on a par with sub-groups including veterans and farmers.
(14) Volkswagen may have to cut jobs in the US and Europe, depending on how much it is fined for manipulating diesel emissions tests , a company official has told workers at its German headquarters.
(15) In the Labour party over the past two decades, the leader has become paramount, directing not just his own staff, but Labour headquarters.
(16) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(17) Updated at 6.58pm BST 6.39pm BST Eurogroup meeting in pictures Here's a few photos from the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg today: European Finance Ministers pose with the ESM board of governors during the Luxembourg EU Eurogroup Finance Ministers Meeting at the EU Headquarters in Luxembourg, 08 October 2012.
(18) "In essence it does not matter where a global company's headquarters are," he wrote.
(19) Embittered, he fled to America, settling in Langley, Virginia, a stone's throw from CIA headquarters.
(20) The Ministry of Defence was forced on the defensive too, after the papers showed that two of Gaddafi's sons were invited to visit the SAS headquarters in July 2006.