Palin has sealed her identity as a culture-war lightning rod: she can inspire hysteria from liberals (ably catalogued in Matthew Continetti's "Persecution of Sarah Palin") and adulation from conservatives (visible at every stop along her book tour), but she's unlikely to persuade anyone in the middle to trust her with the reins of government.
"Here in Central Africa, unnoticed to the world," he added, elephants are losing the ivory war "at lightning speed".
We are witnessing the systematic slaughter of the world's largest land mammal," said Bas Huijbregts, head of the Central African strand of WWF's global campaign against illegal wildlife trade, "Here in Central Africa, unnoticed to the world," he added, elephants are losing the ivory war "at lightning speed".
Winning the lightning war was never in doubt and in no way comparable to the traumas of World War II and the Korean conflict, which made Eisenhower and MacArthur into national heroes and presidential timber.
Lightning war From Hitler's point of view there might have been no "phoney war" at all.
The word derives from Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" and describes an aerial bombardment designed to obliterate the target.
Unlike in 1870 and again in 1940 the Germans had failed to take Paris in another lightning war that summer.
Mechanization was the key to the German blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," so named because of the unprecedented speed and mobility that were its salient characteristics.
It was the first large-scale attack on London, which would face similar attacks every day for the next two months as part of a Nazi campaign known as "the Blitz," an abbreviation of the German word blitzkrieg, or "lightning war".
Blitzkrieg, ( German: "lightning war") military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority in matériel or firepower.
Among the leading contenders who did so, though, it is perhaps only Mr. Kerry who relies so heavily on the support of those liberal primary voters for whom the Iraq war is a lightning rod.
