Reports at the weekend seemed to suggest he is relishing putting his department on a war footing with teachers.

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Nice thought, but again, Jewish people thrive in the United States absent our nation always being on war footing.

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Having only recently emerged from an epoch of total war, the U.S. responded by going on to a total-war footing.

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His speech Thursday was designed to move America's mindset away from a war footing and refine and recalibrate his own counterterrorism strategy.

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They were there, on duty, that September morning, having enlisted in a time of peace, but they instantly transitioned to a war footing.

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It has yet to adopt, however, the war footing required to counter it, let alone hold our allies - real and imagined - accountable for their appeasement of its practitioners.

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It needs to be tackled on a war footing.

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Let's talk about Kuwait's war footing.

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The army and police have made a start on relaxing their war-footing, with demolition planned of several heavily fortified barracks.

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Can the war-footing kind of effort to remove polio be replicated?

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