| Of course neither Etonian playing fields nor Belgian battlefields had that much to do with it. |
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| Junctions resemble battlefields where vehicles' sheer bulk asserts who has authority and right of way. |
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| As urban areas loom large as potential battlefields, Army armored and mechanized forces face a real challenge. |
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| At the beginning of 1916, the Germans introduced a new weapon to the battlefields on the Western Front. |
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| Yet these operatives, fighting on scattered battlefields, share a similar ideology and vision for our world. |
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| It was this close bond which persuaded him to follow his brothers to the battlefields of France to fight a foe he had no desire to destroy. |
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| From the battlefields to the playing fields, veteran actor and playwright Frank Williams knows all about both. |
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| To dominate the ground on battlefields of the next decade, combat soldiers and marines will want a full combined arms solution on their side. |
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| As soon as they reach the age of 16, men and women are called upon to fight on the battlefields. |
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| Future battlefields will require ground units to cover ever-widening frontages. |
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| But Kerry must equally fight on the battlefields of personality and policy. |
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| Innovative new works created from bone fragments depict topographical maps of the sites of important battlefields in the history of South Africa. |
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| On battlefields dominated by machine guns and artillery, men at the front huddled in deep trenches or other battle positions. |
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| A large monument was erected on the battlefields to commemorate their bravery and their strength to serve to their fullest. |
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| Then my pleasant thoughts mutated into dark gory battlefields across the red sand. |
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| As urban sprawl continues and zoning laws are not established, more battlefields are lost each year. |
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| The battlefields of Normandy are drawing increasing numbers of British visitors as the anniversary of D-Day approaches. |
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| Then he scratches battlefields in the dirt with a stick, and puts his Battle of the Somme between the sweet gum trees. |
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| We must tackle ignorance, poverty and injustice but we must do so on contemporary battlefields. |
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| The same soldiers and leaders who adapt, learn and innovate on our battlefields serve in our institutional Army. |
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| Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars. |
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| From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation forward, cinema has reminded us that battlefields are populated with human beings, not toy soldiers. |
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| The battlefields had become a quagmire of blood, gore, mud, miles of trenches and poor generalship on both sides of no-man's land. |
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| He also organized demining operations, as he had done on other former battlefields. |
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| After undertaking preliminary study, participants tour airfields, command posts, ammunition dumps, and battlefields where airpower played a role. |
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| Indeed, from the battlefields of WWI came the entire discipline of cancer chemotherapy. |
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| Terrorists wear civilian clothes and they don't fight on battlefields. |
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| Increasingly U.S. troops are fighting the enemy on urban battlefields. |
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| Mostly desert, with only 2 percent of its territory arable, Libya's major exports were esparto grass and scrap iron from its World War II battlefields. |
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| Here, told for the first time in the nurses' own words, is the riveting story of what actually happened on the battlefields, aid stations and field hospitals. |
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| Australian military history abounds with such examples of valour, from the battlefields of Europe to Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. |
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| The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future. |
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| The beach parking lot was someplace out near the Lexington and concord battlefields. |
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| Each ability takes a certain amount of bio-energy, which Frost can replenish with energy packs scattered throughout the battlefields he fights through. |
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| World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead. |
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| From an early age I could picture myself in a helmet and flak jacket, bringing the latest dispatches from far-flung battlefields as the tracer fire soars overhead. |
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| I have visited 53 battlefields that napoleon fought on, and it has taken me a lot of time. |
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| History surrounds us with battlefields, burial grounds, and forts. |
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| Jack has visited the battlefields on the Somme on numerous occasions and he presented a slide show showing some of the military cemeteries and gravestones. |
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| American veterans are now tourists on battlefields where once they fought. |
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| As in most battlefields the high ground here is strategically vital. |
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| You need us, because wars are no longer fought on battlefields. |
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| Two centuries ago, soldiers called fusiliers, who were armed with light flintlock muskets, fought on battlefields using tactics and formations trained on the parade field. |
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| Perhaps never before have national and local politics been seen to be so effective, and particularly on the old battlefields on the ground in the North. |
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| During World War I, Belgian Sheepdogs distinguished themselves on the battlefields, serving as message carriers, ambulance dogs, and even pulling machine guns. |
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| By coincidence he was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. |
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| Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields. |
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| The Finns were embittered over having lost more land in the peace than on the battlefields, and over the perceived lack of world sympathy. |
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| The international army boundary arbitrarily divided the British and American battlefields just beyond Argentan, on the Falaise side of it. |
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| Unlike the Syrian Army, NDF soldiers are allowed to take loot from battlefields, which can then be sold on for extra money. |
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| A poorly conceived organization, the Pentomic division was cellular in structure and designed to fight on nuclear and conventional battlefields. |
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| Eventually, smaller versions of the death ray will begin appearing on battlefields, possibly as solar-powered ray guns. |
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| The battlespace labs will determine the best ways for armored and infantry forces to take advantage of time, distance, and space on battlefields. |
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| Gunpowder, while invented in the Tang Dynasty, was first put into use in battlefields by the Song army, inspiring a succession of new firearms and siege engines designs. |
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| She tells him all about a boy called Bertie and a White Lion, whose fates are intertwined from the African veld to the battlefields of First World War France. |
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| He claims that his calculations are the first to quantify radiation-based risks to wounded soldiers from dissolving shrapnel and to civilians living near battlefields. |
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| The fact that Cromwell lacked military credentials grated with men who had fought on the battlefields of the English Civil War to secure their nation's liberties. |
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| As photographic techniques developed, an intrepid group of photographers took their talents out of the studio and onto battlefields, across oceans and into remote wilderness. |
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| Portable printeries were a common feature of battlefields during the Napoleonic and American Civil wars as well as a fixture on immigrant sailing ships and troopships. |
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