Five, the smallest of the U. K.'s commercially-operated broadcasters, was acquired outright by RTL in 2005 and was intended to be used as a beach-head to build scale in the U.K. television market. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Early test case of avatarism, relatively unchanged from furry communities in 3D graphic spaces such as Second Life and those virally trying to make the “metaverse” more palatable as a beach-head for transhumanism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's one battle scene in TEMERAIRE with about 300 dragons , half of whom are trying to drop several thousand French troops into Kent as an invasion beach-head. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And then -- relying in part on the supporters he cultivated at Stanford, Oxford and Yale Law School -- he established a beach-head in a major Black city. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The transitional measures were seen by the liberation movement as necessary compromises to ensure the broadest possible legitimacy of the new order and to use the advances made as a beach-head to a truly united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This paper proceeds from the premise that the ANC had to make a number of concessions to the old order in order to secure the beach-head of majority rule in 1994. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They were made with the implicit understanding that the main thrust of movement policy would be to consolidate that beach-head and employ it to lay the foundations of a truly democratic society. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is important that we boldly acknowledge and accept that the movement has had to seek compromises and make concessions to the old order so that we could attain the important beach-head of majority rule in 1994. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now an image of him stepping on to the Normandy beach-head has been included on a stamp depicting the greatest seaborne invasion ever undertaken. ❋ John (2004)
It appears as though “mission accomplished†in Iraq was not necessarily referring to guarding the Ministry of Oil and occupying the country indefinitely or finding WMDs, disrupting al-Qaeda, or liberating Iraqis, blah-blah-blah, but to having a military beach-head in the heart of the Middle East. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It appears as though “mission accomplished” in Iraq was not necessarily referring to guarding the Ministry of Oil and occupying the country indefinitely or finding WMDs, disrupting al-Qaeda, or liberating Iraqis, blah-blah-blah, but to having a military beach-head in the heart of the Middle East. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Strategy and Tactics (1997) thus concluded that the balance of forces gave the democratic forces great possibilities to use the new situation as a beach-head to fundamentally transform society. ❋ Unknown (2002)
We have therefore used the victory of 1994 and the ANC becoming a majority party in government, as a beach-head towards achieving our strategic objective. ❋ Unknown (2000)
This gave it immense possibilities to use the new situation as a beach-head to fundamentally transform society. ❋ Unknown (1997)
[Kara's] hair is full of sand, and even a [fricken] lobster, and she doesn't even care. She's such a [beach head]. ❋ Maverick651 (2006)
[General] [Zod] kneels before Beach Head v2 ❋ Anonymous (2003)
