Northern Command's mission to protect the homeland against foreign threats is separate and distinct from its mission to provide support to civil agencies in the event of a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions, ... So part of the confusion you're seeing is the natural shaking-out process as the Defense Department stands up a new command and adopts a new mission that most generals assumed with great reluctance in the first place, given that their forces and budgets were already stretched thin. In that sense, Admiral Keating's comments were probably less about someone gunning to take the lead, and more a reflection of how much support Northern Command will likely be asked to provide in the event of a real catastrophe.
Quotes about gunning (16 Quotes)
When everyone is gunning for you, you must be doing something right. Athletics is one aspect that everyone in the school and community seems to rally around and take pride in.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
We don't care about how we get there, as the East winner or the wild card, we just want to get to the playoffs. It's the most important thing. We're going to be gunning for these teams and this is the time of year for the Red Sox to show that we can shine.
We're just trying to make extra history. Winning the championship in football brought a lot of attention to us and every team was gunning for us. It was hard. It took hard work in practice.
Everybody's going to be gunning for us. There's going to be an even bigger X, not just on our back but on our whole body.
All the people were gunning for them, and they went through a good tournament at Christmas.
We knew we had to play tougher defense in the second half. We came out with a chip on our shoulder because we know everyone is gunning for us.
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
We've had a rivalry with them for a long time. We've been gunning for this for years. The girls were ready and they worked real hard all year.
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderful responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.
Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.
What, running and gunning for seven games It doesn't matter at this point. We played San Antonio well this year. We played well against Phoenix. We don't care who we play at this point.
I don't think there's any doubt everybody is looking at us and gunning for us. Baseball is our national pastime. It's always been perceived that Americans play the best baseball.
Just getting back to the finals is a heck of an achievement in itself when everyone is gunning for you. Sean handled himself well throughout it all.