| Surely at the Somme and other such battles you were ordered by those in charge to go over the top to provide cannon fodder? |
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| Maybe it's better to be a competitive force in the junior ranks than cannon fodder in the higher echelons. |
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| Failure to appear has tripled her posted bail, made them issue another warrant for her arrest, and gave even more cannon fodder to the media. |
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| Cllr McCarthy expressed the view that the Irish, Australians and Canadians were used as cannon fodder without a care. |
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| I was a prime example, a fledgling member, of the brotherhood of benighted working class cannon fodder the US is so famous for. |
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| But Turkey would make a separate EU strike force much more feasible by providing cheap, brave cannon fodder. |
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| Thousands of unemployed rural youth have been used as cannon fodder for the war. |
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| I was dubious about claims of Scots being used as cannon fodder in past wars. |
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| Why should we be good enough to be cannon fodder but not good enough to serve at home? |
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| Bank Top are unbeaten in Division Five but were regarded by many as mere cannon fodder against Holmfirth-based Division Three side Rangers. |
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| Wars are lost when the leadership regards its soldiers as cannon fodder. |
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| I wouldn't mind serving my time in such a humanitarian force, as opposed to spending 10 to 13 months being trained to be cannon fodder and wear camouflage. |
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| Whole that is only a low and coward lie from the commissioners who used us up till then as cannon fodder. |
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| Anyone who thought Trinidad and Tobago would be cannon fodder at Germany 2006 was very much mistaken. |
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| Most women involved in terrorism today appear to fulfill a role as inexpensive cannon fodder. |
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| Morocco attacked from the start only to discover that the Congolese had no intention of being cannon fodder and the North Africans resorted to long-range shots. |
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| Will the minister listen to those who know best and stop his attempt to turn Canadian airline passengers into cannon fodder? |
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| Like the kids in today's army, I was just another poor boy sucked into the machine and told how honorable and patriotic it was to offer myself as cannon fodder. |
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| The modern soldier with his modern equipment is not mere cannon fodder. |
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| If that meant a quarter million or so jobs had to go in the process, well, in every war there is cannon fodder. |
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| They also suspected that they might be used simply as cannon fodder by the Americans. |
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| But the need for fresh cannon fodder apparently trumps common sense. |
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| Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted. |
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| Also, the Russian commanders had no wish to be used as cannon fodder and tried to discuss ways in which all anti-communist forces might unite against Stalin. |
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| Eastern Conference Still regarded as the weaker of the two conferences, an open field will contend to provide cannon fodder for the Western champion next summer. |
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| Jonas Bjorkman served notice to his first-round opponent at Wimbledon, Lleyton Hewitt, that he has no intention of acting as cannon fodder for the top seed. |
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| I thank the Liberal government for giving me more cannon fodder to use in the next election. |
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| On the other hand, however, the populace can unfortunately behave like a dumb herd and, eventually, become cannon fodder. |
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| That's when our troops became first-rate, front-line fighters commanded by Canadians-and not just cannon fodder for the British Empire. |
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| A third and final suggestion: young people suffer from massive exploitation, and as I was saying earlier they are used as cannon fodder. |
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| Karne Hesketh's 84th-minute try clinched the win for a side usually used as cannon fodder. |
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| We have a war within our boundaries pitting men against women, and our children, whom we both love, end up being the cannon fodder in which the winner takes all. |
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| My great-grandfather left Ukraine in 1906, where he could foresee no future except as cannon fodder for either the czars or the Bolshevists. |
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| In short, if we want to promote research and technology, we need to back it, we cannot give cannon fodder to the eurosceptics, as we are doing with such an incoherent project. |
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| Iraq is only the first country which will be the victim of an offensive to allow US capitalism to globalise its economic, and therefore its military, supremacy, converting people into goods and cannon fodder. |
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| With regard to the recommendations of the Human Rights Council, he said his Government was setting up working groups and taking other measures to prevent the use of children as cannon fodder by rebel or combatant groups. |
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| Each claims the victory, but this is above all the greatest slaughter of modern times, a fight in vain and without a winner that paved the way for cannon fodder in wars on an industrial scale. |
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| Is it true that once again your protagonists end up as cannon fodder, the everyday instruments of conflict for the poor devils who have to fight, and that notwithstanding everything, this too is a story about weapons? |
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| You think you're being sent out simply as cannon fodder, because you don't know yet that you will win this battle, which will be decisive not only for the outcome of the war, but also for Canada's world image. |
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| But they are cannon fodder who are not clever, competent or keen enough to accomplish their mission. |
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| Are we the electorate deemed to be only useful at an election, used as cannon fodder and then ignored? |
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| Thank providence that such negligence of our cannon fodder wouldn't be tolerated so much with today's compensation culture. |
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| These are the cannon fodder that keep our court rooms filled and even The Bill in its day would have struggled to get much drama out of their pathetic endeavours. |
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| Cannon Fodder should be firing on all cylinders for the Birthday Girls' Celebration Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Towcester. |
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| That's the compelling beginning of Cannon Fodder, which opens with a bang and keeps its action vivid and engrossing from its very first sentence. |
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| The weights are headed by course-and-distance winner Cannon Fodder, who has been dropped 5lb since finishing seventh in a Listed contest at Cheltenham last time. |
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