Sentences with phrase «after war series»

I built an interactive (Limited) demo that's based on Safe Haven refugee camp, one of the bigger parts of my Life After War series.

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The war, you'll recall, was started after Chechen separatists were blamed for setting off a series of bombs in apartment buildings across Russia in 1999.

The news came just months after the series» third, Star Wars - based installment generated an estimated $ 200 million in revenue and garnered solid reactions from critics.

Just a few weeks ago, the social network repeatedly deleted posts and suspended the account of a Norwegian newspaper editor after he published a Pulitzer Prize - winning photo of a young Vietnamese girl running away from her bombed village in 1972, as part of a series on compelling war photography.

After a series of tit - for - tat tariffs between the economic giants, there has been widespread concern that these moves could lead to a trade war which would slow down Chinese growth and trigger a global recession.

We can see this problem rather clearly in the ennui which became characteristic of American life after a series of failures in the effort to extricate ourselves from the Vietnam war.

After the Second World War, the Copts faced another series of challenges.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It was a season played under the deepening shadow of World War II, which the U.S. would enter two months after the final game of the World Series.

The Cubs haven't been to a World Series since right after World War II.

Using their newly developed doctrine of blitzkreig, or lightning war, the Nazis overwhelmed the French, outflanking the series of fortified defenses known as the Maginot Line and arriving in Paris mere weeks after the campaign began.

In fact the popular view of Sir Henry is largely based on a totally scurrilous series of newspaper articles published after the second world war by Leslie Knighton who managed Arsenal very unsuccessfully from 1919 to 1925.

Neville was embroiled in a war of words with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp after criticising Karius, but Klopp has since dropped the German goalkeeper after a series of poor showings.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

China has never surrendered to external pressure and it will win any trade war with the United States, the nation's state media stressed in a series of editorials and columns in the hours after the world's two top economies targeted each other with steep tariffs.

The group in its first quarter report released in Abuja on the ongoing war against insurgency in Nigeria noted that after undertaking review of the ongoing war on terrorism by the Nigerian military, it observed that UNICEF and other international organizations have been frustrating the efforts of the army through series of blackmails.

In the Fallout video game series, players must live in underground shelters after nuclear war turns Earth into a radioactive wasteland.

This season is just dragging on, frankly, after season 3, I just started getting tired with all the One of television's most popular shows, the A&E reality series Storage Wars, has come under fire from one of its former stars who claims the show is

After the war he accumulated scores of stock company and Broadway credits, then in 1948 made his television debut in the short - lived series Fashion Story.

After the war, O'Hanlon and Bare teamed for a series of shorts for Warners release; informally titled Behind the Eight Ball, these one - reel gems starred O'Hanlon as benighted «everyman» Joe McDoakes.

«The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed so.

Whedon's short - lived series set 500 years in the future after a universal war follows the crew aboard the Serenity spaceship who are eager to get in on the action of the new frontier.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

Speaking of which: in the series's latest bit of tongue - in - cheek revisionist history, it is disclosed that John F. Kennedy fast - tracked the moon landing not to beat the Soviet Union in the space race, but rather to secure a site where a giant Autobot vessel had crash - landed after a big war on Cybertron.

I have played the Main Lego games since the first one in 2005 wich was lego star wars the video game, and have played every single main series lego game after that, and i am really excited about this one!

SANTA MONICA, CA — March 12, 2018 — After a competitive bidding war that ignited Hollywood, Hulu has obtained the rights to develop Little Fires Everywhere, the highly - anticipated limited series from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, based on Celeste Ng's 2017 bestseller, as a Hulu Original Sseries from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, based on Celeste Ng's 2017 bestseller, as a Hulu Original SeriesSeries.

«Captain America: Civil War» marks the beginning of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Three, which will include «Guardians of the Galaxy» and «Thor» sequels, «Doctor Strange,» «Black Panther,» and «Captain Marvel» solo features, and «Avengers: Infinity War» parts 1 and 2, so given the episodic nature of the MCU, it is only natural that the creative heads behind the scenes are discussing Phase Four, and what could come after the latest series of chapters.

God Of War is a series that was in need of a rethinking far before it went into hibernation after 2013's flaccid prequel story Ascension.

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars will be the official continuation of the series, and it begins with Korra and Asami returning to Republic City after their visit in the spirit world.

According to Clay Jensen, Design Director at 343 Industries, Halo Wars 2 has been the most requested game in the series after Halo 5: Guardians.

Last off, I don't think this movie would match up to Star Wars even after watching all the previous movies from the series to make comparisons.

«As a woman, the film I was offered immediately after Generation Kill was Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang, not the obvious choice of someone who's just done a war series,» she notes to DIY Film.

The Netflix series The Crown is back, documenting the early years of Queen Elizabeth II's (Claire Foy) reign as she ascends to the throne shortly after World War II.

The Russo brothers aren't entirely counting themselves out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after they wrap their much - hyped (and still - untitled) «Avengers: Infinity War» sequel — frankly, they need a little bit of time to breathe before announcing anything about their franchise plans going forward — but the directors already have a clear idea what they'd like to see from the next phase of the sprawling blockbuster series.

In this case, it's the Nixon administration trying to silence the Washington Post after suing the New York Times for the partial publication of the Pentagon Papers (a series of studies about the government's less than honest history leading up to the Vietnam war), but the implications and allegories are clear.

With the film slated to debut after «Avengers: Infinity War,» she won't appear in the third film in the Avengers series.

Marvel may not be «All - New, All - Different» until after Secret Wars, but Nova is all - new and all - different early in the upcoming Infinity Gauntlet series.

After 18 movies (including the upcoming Black Panther), three TV series, a Disney acquisition, and untold billions and billions of dollars accumulated, the MCU will look to Infinity War as the beginning of an end of an era.

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After successfully testing the computer - animated waters on the smaller screen with the likes of LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Ninjago, not to mention a series of hit video games, everybody's favorite Danish interlocking brick system has finally been transformed into a big 3D animated feature — with wildly entertaining results.

After collecting trophies for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series and Best Television Series (both in the Musical or Comedy categories), the triple threat was met with questions from the press about his other major project — playing young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars anthology film.

While most film series seem to lose their luster after the first couple of films, the Star Wars series carries a great deal of energy, imagination, and interest throughout all six films, and still leaves me hungry for more.

Deadline reports that Peele and his company, Monkeypaw Productions, are shopping around a series titled The Hunt, about a group of diverse hunters who want to track and kill the reformed Nazis who «escaped justice and embedded themselves in American society» after World War II.

The current arc in Marvel's Poe Dameron comic series is set in a tantalizing context: the moments immediately after the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi come to a close.

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales (series) After Revolutionary War spy Nathan Hale is executed, he and two sidekicks are displaced in time and witness events that have shaped American history.

After all the success of the Star Wars series, Mark Hamill came down to earth in 1978, so to speak, and immediately starred in...

After the war, Bendix made the smaller PS series which was found on Lycoming and Continental engines on general aviation aircraft.

Fair warning: the pre-war models have not been given much room - Jonathan Wood clearly concentrated on the model series that were produced after World War II.

Think Pat Barker's brilliant Regeneration series, and, more recently, Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs books (set after the war, but very clearly dealing with its effects) or A.S. Byatt's 2009 Edwardian saga The Children's Book.

A moving account of the award - winning illustrator's childhood in Nazi - occupied Poland, her imprisonment in a series of concentration camps, and her life after the war as a displaced person in Sweden.