Sentence examples for worst soldiers from inspiring English sources

Here's one of the best bits: Responding to a reader who objected to his previous characterization of Italians as "the worst soldiers of this century", Macdonald wrote that "he misses my point, intended as a compliment, which is that because they are an old and civilized people, the Italians have no stomach for dying en masse for some abstract cause, and especially for a bad one".

But Mariupol is preparing for the worst with soldiers digging trenches and using huge concrete tank-traps to block roads.

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The shooting was one of the worst instances of soldier-on-soldier violence in the Iraq war.

It appeared to be the worst case of soldier-on-soldier violence among American forces in the six-year Iraq war.

Two days after one of the worst cases of soldier-on-soldier violence among American troops in Iraq, friends and relatives spoke through tears and grief on Wednesday to reveal portraits of the five slain soldiers.

"The two worst enemies the soldiers here ever faced were boredom and the cold," Mr. Johnson said.

In the worst scenes a soldier (Will Bond) lives out his World War I shell shock, implying both that "The Rite" anticipated mortar bombs and machine-gun fire and that its original audience's reaction was like that of men in the trenches.

The reason isn't only that Khadr was, at worst, a child soldier - he was 15 when he was captured in a compound of al Qaeda associates who were friends of his father's.

In the worst incident, seven Turkish soldiers and 12 rebels were killed last month in Lice, in the country's south-east.

Detainees speak of their time in Bagram Airbase and the Dark Prison, both in Afghanistan, and both steeped in some of the worst offences by US soldiers against detainees.