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a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire

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Soldiers also found medicine and dextrose containers in the foxholes along with eight cal.
Artillery bombardment forced the Abu Sayyaf to abandon their stronghold of seven foxholes and 12 bunkers capable of accommodating at least 80 Abu Sayyaf terrorists.
Does your accountability system look like foxholes or firing squads?
Now we are talking about faith that goes beyond foxholes and insurance policies.
Their dilapidated Grade II Listed Foxholes Farm in Shropshire would be a daunting project for even experienced restorers, which they're most definitely not.
I want to talk about one of those metaphorical foxholes. I want to talk about how, in the depths of it, my atheism and humanism didn't dry up; instead they supported me and helped carry me through.
The phrase "there are no atheists in foxholes" would never have applied to Hitchens.
Funloving competitors battled their way across four-and-a-half miles of bogs, ponds, cargo nets, foxholes and tyre pits all in aid of charity.
Because of medical problems caused by prolonged exposure to sub-zero temperatures in foxholes, Schuchert's legs were amputated below the knees six years ago.
In "Since there are 'No Atheists in Foxholes'" he explains how "every once in Awhile / God has to allow the World / To Become a 'foxhole' / Just for Company I expect." This poem's form mimics the metaphor of the foxhole: the poem is centered on the page as are the lines.
Rarely have any of the miscreants apologised to the constituents who pay them, so busy have they been diving for foxholes.
"No Atheists in Foxholes: Prayers and Reflections from the Front" is a collection of thoughts and reflections on the importance of religion in the Iraq conflict that rages on to this day.
Upon announcement of a Conversion Day, MPC control officers had 24 hours to locate troops, whether in foxholes or deepest jungles, and exchange the old series for the new series.
Therefore, the foxholes are not the product of God, but man.