JERUSALEM — Efforts to agree on a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas intensified Tuesday, but the struggle to achieve even a brief pause in the fighting emphasized the obstacles to finding any lasting solution.
NEWS Efforts to agree on a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas intensified Tuesday, but the struggle to achieve even a brief pause in the fighting emphasized the obstacles to finding a lasting solution.
Under the leadership of Donald Rumsfeld, who resigned in November, the Pentagon had embraced a narrow "shock-and-awe" approach to war-fighting, emphasizing technology, long-range firepower, and spectacular displays of force.
Each one is in part what we make them, by pushing, blocking, pressuring, encouraging, fighting, reframing, emphasizing, organizing.
But Jones did acknowledge that he was aware some fans were frustrated with his fighting style, which emphasizes boxing and not the pursuit of a showy, devastating knockout.
Like many of the other African nations that have succeeded in moving toward economic and political stability, Botswana and its president, Festus G. Mogae, have increasingly emphasized fighting poverty by developing industries that can export products to the rest of the world.
When many people, including Obama, talk about fighting racism, they emphasize the hard work that goes into it.
As a result, the German command began espousing a new defensive doctrine in December 1916, one that emphasized fighting an elastic defensive battle in depth, rather than rigidly holding successive lines of trenches.
Traditionally, samurai were expected to learn a form of the martial art today known as jiu jitsu as part of their training.[12] This fighting style emphasized throws, grapples, and pins, which allowed samurai to effectively defeat armored opponents against whom punches and kicks wouldn't be effective.
Instead, administrators adopted an insular view of professionalism that emphasized crime fighting as the primary function of police work.
Mr. Kohn, an influential cen-trist, was appointed by President George W. Bush, as were the two most recent board members to leave, who tended to emphasize inflation fighting.
