Sentence examples for battlefield performance from inspiring English sources

The romance of the AK-47 was well justified by its battlefield performance.

His book, Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

But in fact, to influence battlefield performance, the adviser's first job is to set the example in combat.

When the military plan for the Iraq war floundered a decade ago, McCain, 79, and Graham, 60, pushed for the "surge" that turned around the battlefield performance.

Talmadge shows the importance of threat conditions and military organizational practices for battlefield performance in two paired comparisons of states at war: North and South Vietnam (1963 1975) and Iran and Iraq (1980 1988).

As the fighting nears Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, rebel leaders, reacting to criticism of their battlefield performance, have contended that they may still have a chance: Colonel Qaddafi's forces, they contend, are overextending their lines as they push rebels back and might be running short of fuel.

Mr. Bagnall said these battlefield performances can help connect people to history.

He built his reputation and won his comrades' respect through his fierce battlefield performances, but hated and tried to destroy those who differed from him by being civilized and well-educated.

There is a thrum of excitement around the Valor and Defiant, with bold names that call to mind the Knights of the Round Table and the CGI videos that dramatically envision their sleek battlefield performances.

The image evokes a range of associations: a cemetery; a battlefield; Abramović's 1997 performance Balkan Baroque, 1997, when she washed 1,500 fresh cow bones.

Thanks to Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, audiences were able to get a taste of what Mr. Goodwin sees when they gathered on a recent Sunday at the Towton battlefield for a daylong performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VI" trilogy, as they can do on three other battlefields this month: Tewkesbury on Sunday, St. Albans on Aug. 11 and Barnet on Aug. 24.