He cited the increase in military aid for Israel that he has secured; the U.S. partnership with Israel on missile defense; American diplomatic support to combat initiatives in international forums to "delegitimize" Israel; and even the fire-fighting aircraft he deployed to Israel last year to help put out deadly brush fires in the country's north.
Retired Army Col. Ellen Haring, program director of the Combat Integration Initiative at Women in International Security, took issue with the Corps' decision to highlight average performance.
To combat this, initiatives are taking place across the industry to cope with the problem, including new designs for data centres, innovative cooling methods and more investment in renewable energy.
Though the two are uneasy partners, they have cooperated to combat international initiatives that might challenge their own interests.
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A third and perhaps most vital idea was for progressive groups of diverse and even competing persuasions to join forces in common cause and mutual support to combat Trump's initiatives more forcefully and effectively.
Ahead of the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, celebrities announced that they would be wearing all-black outfits to the festivities this year, a gesture to the recent Time's Up initiative combatting workplace sexual harassment.
Breaking the Mold is MIT Sloan's initiative to combat bias.
The African Union has launched the Green Wall Sahara Initiative to combat desertification across the Sahel.
Their new video takes a look at an unlikely youth initiative to combat gang culture in the Hilltop neighbourhood: glassblowing.
In 2006, an international group of scientists and advocates started the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an initiative to combat hookworm and other insidious but low-profile infections.
