Tom is a Vietnam veteran.

Neither am I a veteran social worker.

We've got the old buildings, lots of veteran trees and all the good habitat.

She walked out of the plane and spoke to the whole press as if she was a veteran.

A veteran of eight Ryder Cups, Spaniard Sergio Garcia became the tournaments all time winningest European with 25.5 career point.

He was a veteran reporter for Noroeste in 2003 when he joined five colleagues in creating Riodoce, selling 50 shares.

In 2004, the 74 year old veteran of the space industry announced his retirement after 42 years of service at NASA.

In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

The President (spoke in French) I now call on General Sagadat Nurmagambetov, representative of Kazakhstan and a veteran of the Second World War.

On August 12 Beijing time, after three posture finals of women's 50 meters rifle in 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Chinese veteran Du Li won the bronze medal.

Nell Scovell, a veteran comedy writer and author of Just the Funny Parts And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys Club, has another theory.

Do heady times of struggle always give way to a somewhat deflating taste of victory? Am I merely a veteran wistfully reminiscing about the old days of struggle?

In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

This was the third consecutive time for the AIPS to award veteran Olympic reporters during the Olympic Games, following the 2012 London Games and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

And how futile seemed the words of advice to me from great British veteran conductor Sir Colin Davis who said, Conducting, Charles, is like holding a small bird in your hand.

As Riadh Guerfali, the veteran digital activist from Tunisia, remarked over this incident, Before, things were simple you had the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other.

I'll show you one photo here, and it's a photo by Eugene Richards of an Iraq War veteran from an extraordinary piece of work, which has never been published, called War Is Personal.

If you're a veteran coming back from Iraq or Vietnam you face a blizzard of paperwork to get your benefits if you're trying to get a small business loan, you face a blizzard of paperwork.

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a veteran political maverick and former mayor of Jerusalem, inspired several of Sharon s initiatives. Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and Labor party leader, appeals to many voters from the left.

The veteran Ukrainian dissident, Jewish activist, and passionate advocate of Ukraine s Maidan movement, had just finished briefing a Warsaw audience about the movement s spectacular victory and President Viktor Yanukovych s fall from power. There is no Jewish perspective, he answered.

The ice began to crack on November 17, when Representative John Murtha, a hawkish Democratic congressman and marine veteran, suggested pulling troops out of Iraq in six months. Soon after, the Republican controlled Senate voted for a significant transition to full Iraq sovereignty in 2006.

And when I complained to my grandmother, a World War II veteran who worked in film for 50 years and who supported me from the age of 13, that I was terrified that if I turned down a plum assignment at ABC for a fellowship overseas,

Some in the West including veteran China watcher David Shambaugh remain convinced that this kind of collaborative accommodation will not be necessary, because failures of economic and political management will bring about China s implosion. Rudd argues that they are wrong, and that Xi will neither overplay his authoritarian hand nor under deliver on growth.

Aimee Corrigan, a very talented and young photographer, and Robert Caputo, a friend and a mentor, who is a veteran of National Geographic, and told me, You know, Franco, in 25 years of covering Africa, I don't know if I have come across a story that is so full of hope and so fun.

Among 6 members of the Council of Ministers of BiH there is one woman (16,7 ), and among 15 members of the Government of the Federation of BiH two women (13,3 ) are ministers (agriculture and war veteran issues), and out of 19 members of the Government of the RS one woman is the minister (justice).

But the majority opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens paid little heed to the Administration's parade of horribles. A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.

The dilemma is neatly summed up by the two clear candidates for the top job as Mr. Europe. On the one hand, there s the safe pair of hands personified by Jean Claude Juncker, the veteran prime minister of tiny Luxembourg, who knows the ins and outs of the EU s political machinery and chairs the euro zone s ministerial set up.

The human rights activist Liu Xiaobo has just been locked up for 11 years, drawing widespread condemnation. The veteran campaigner for the release of political detainees, John Kamm, argues that this was a tipping point for the Chinese authorities, and that they will have to work themselves out of this in a less hard line way.

Later this week, demonstrations calling for the government's resignation are planned, and it will become obviously more difficult for the government to continue to function. There are already rumors about a palace coup within Kadima, aimed at replacing Olmert with either the deputy prime minister, the veteran Shimon Peres, or the popular foreign minister, Tzipi Livni.

This system would allow those who do not wish to share monetary sovereignty, or engage in the kind of fiscal cooperation that must eventually come with it, to make that choice. At the same time, it would avoid the complications of having multiple Europes an option that may be attractive to veteran Eurocrats from a purely functional perspective, but soon becomes hopelessly complicated.

And when I complained to my grandmother, a World War II veteran who worked in film for 50 years and who supported me from the age of 13, that I was terrified that if I turned down a plum assignment at ABC for a fellowship overseas, I would never ever, ever find another job, she said, Kiddo, I'm going to tell you two things.

Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China s top leaders, and prone to rash decision making on important policies with wide ranging social and economic consequences. He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.

All of the symbolic attributes of power have been transferred to Kim Jong un reflected in his official position in the funeral ceremonies, his presidency of the Military Commission, and his assumption of the ruling party s highest rank with remarkable speed. But such trappings will not make the transition process any easier for a young man of less than 30 in a society where veteran military chiefs retain so much power.