Sentence examples for soldiers rule from inspiring English sources

While soldiers and former soldiers rule in both countries, as they still do, it will be difficult for things to improve.

"He led the party through the darkest political era this country has ever known, and all the evil that came with it when soldiers ruled," said President Ronald Venetiaan, who took over leadership of the party when Mr. Arron retired.

It's not hard to see the absurdity in the wounded-soldier rule: It was difficult to get a soldier's permission before he had suffered his injury, and nearly impossible after.

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Soldiers have ruled Nigeria for most of the time since independence in 1960; civilian rule returned in 1999.

The Koulouglis are descended from the Janissaries (elite Turkish soldiers who ruled Libya following the Ottoman conquest) and the Amazigh and Christian slave women with whom they intermarried.

Several judges during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq, the last soldier to rule the country (from 1977 to 1988), refused to take similar oaths and lost their jobs.

In their testimonies, soldiers depict rules of engagement they characterised as permissive, "lax" or largely non-existent, including how some soldiers were instructed to treat anyone seen looking towards their positions as "scouts" to be fired on.

Senator Warner recalled that in Somalia, where American troops were involved in an ill-fated peacekeeping operation in 1992, house-to-house searches by American soldiers were ruled out as too dangerous.

The commander of the Israeli Defence Forces in the West Bank, Brigadier-General Hagai Mordechai, has ordered all commanders to reiterate to all soldiers the rules of engagement, a military spokesman told the Guardian.

There have been credible allegations that individual soldiers broke rules banning the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields sent first into properties where fighters may be holed up; that civilians known not to pose any military threat were killed in cold blood and that Israeli forces used white phosphorous over built-up areas.