#recede

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #battle #compromise #contestants #determine

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#about #asian #available #been #bring

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#answer #arise #away #both #broader

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure. ↗

— Sallust

#every #justifiable #measure #originated #precedent

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#barren #cases #consequence #death #dreadful

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #competent #country #development #direction

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ↗

— John Sununu

#defining #forced #laws #left #legal

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoid #cannon #nations #precede #shots