Sentence examples for veterans down from inspiring English sources

Popular war heroes like former Senator Bob Dole and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf implied that the Clinton administration had let veterans down and allowed defenses to erode.

The Senate will have 18 veterans, down from a peak of 81 in 1977 and the lowest since at least World War II, according to data from the Senate Historical Office.

He offered tepid support for Eric Shinseki, a former four-star general who serves as his secretary for veterans' affairs, calling him a great public servant who "cares deeply about veterans", before noting that, if Mr Shinseki were to conclude that he had let veterans down, "then I'm sure that he is not going to be interested in continuing to serve".

For us to let our veterans down, it is unacceptable is the mildest word I can think of".

"If he thinks he's let our veterans down, then I'm sure that he is not going to be interested in continuing to serve," Obama said.

Kors: And yet your film spends no time casting blame, not on the administration, not on the V.A. It's focused on the crisis hotline responders, who display such intelligence and empathy as they to talk these veterans down from the brink.

Two years ago, he starred in Barry Rutter's Northern Broadsides production of Othello and critics expecting to shoot the Tiswas veteran down came away praising, in the words of one, "one of the most astonishing debuts in Shakespeare I have ever seen".

With Panesar also tying the veteran down, he was restricted almost exclusively to nudges behind square on both sides of the wicket, but a fifth-wicket partnership of 79 with Yuvraj Singh looked to be tipping the balance towards India.

And yet when the veterans sit down for lunch and a cabaret, the US is very much part of the celebrations.

So in this spirit of empathy, as more or more of our nation's veterans put down the gun for their next instrument of change, I'd encourage your consideration.

Protesters, including many war veterans, shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection.