A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court. . . the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14. 5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1. 83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3. 9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.
The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name.
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
That meddling in other people's affairs. . . formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.
The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.