The grizzled Arab mercenaries, who'd fled the Hezbollah reoccupation with little more than the clothes on their backs, looked a tad startled in their new flip flops and red-blue board shorts.
The court of Louis XIV was impressed as much by the neckerchiefs of Croat mercenaries employed to fight the Thirty Years War as by their fighting spirit.
Rather, the actual plot begins when Joker and Shepard are assaulted in the Citadel by mercenaries.
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The law on mercenaries is drafted too narrowly to apply to private guards.
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From there, Dubs conjectured, some escaped and joined the Huns as mercenaries.
Mr Moreno-Ocampo earlier expressed fears that Saif al-Islam might decide against surrendering to the ICC and try to escape to a friendly country with the help of mercenaries.
Security Council resolution also authorizes actions to try to prevent -- try to work with the neighboring governments to try to prevent the flow of mercenaries into Libya so that he cannot draw upon that as a source going forward.
To begin with, the government denied hiring Liberian mercenaries, but then both it and the Ivorian rebels agreed to kick the whole lot of them out of the country.
It all unfolds on Rook Island, a lush jungle supposedly somewhere in the eastern Pacific and a battleground between mercenaries, pirates and the indigenous Rakyat.
Regional specialists believe that Tanzania's reputation as an honest broker and as a strictly neutral party in the conflicts afflicting its neighbours would be damaged by Tanzanian soldiers serving as mercenaries for forces outside the country.
The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
"Once again we have members of the legislature allegedly acting as mercenaries, " U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference.
Local mercenaries once in the colonel's pay will also trickle back.
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Equatorial Guinea hit the headlines in 2004 when a plane load of suspected mercenaries was intercepted in Zimbabwe while allegedly on the way to overthrow President Obiang.
The possible outcomes of a win by the plaintiffs in the O'Bannon case have been cast in doomsday extremes: If the NCAA loses, some say, the governing body will be immolated as athletes turn into cash-addled mercenaries and top-level conferences are bombed into the stone ages.
Last week, Seleka denounced the South African forces as "mercenaries" and demanded their withdrawal.
The practice of athletes and coaches representing countries other than their native ones dates back years, but the number of medal-seeking mercenaries is rising rapidly, says Olympic historian Bill Mallon.
Mr Moreno-Ocampo said the ICC had learnt "through informal channels" that mercenaries were offering to move Saif al-Islam to a country that has not signed up to the ICC's Rome statute.
Not content with directing it and co-writing it with Dave Callaham, he also takes a leading role as the captain of a team of seasoned mercenaries.
In the meantime, the video-game industry is continually trying to increase the realism of its basketball players and brawny mercenaries.
They were mercenaries who earned their living on the battlefield.
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Is there not something slightly absurd about the vain, aged machismo of The Expendibles 2, a movie about violent septuagenarian mercenaries?
Most of the time you were fighting random alien creatures or mercenaries working for an absent character that only appeared a few time.
Mr Malacela had been quoted by the Guardian as saying that if Tanzanians served as mercenaries then this could endanger Tanzania's own security.
Cities are costly where United Nations staff, diamond traders, aid workers, diplomats, mercenaries and gun-runners compete for the few available hotel rooms, bottles of water and reliable taxis.
Reunited for what they think should be a quick, in-and-out mission, this tight-knit band of old-school mercenaries are about to find themselves at the brink of global disaster and are driven to make this mission personal.
Another incident, in January, involved Padsha Khan, a chieftain in the Zadran valley in eastern Afghanistan, who has 500 mercenaries taking American pay.
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