Sentences with phrase «national liberation front»

A quotation from General Vo Nguyen Giap of the Vietnamese National Liberation Front describing the double - bind of combat strategy, the glowing letters provide a visual tension to the cracking clay exterior, while highlighting the artist's fascination with social mores — in this case, military and political custom.

The power of words — slogans, graffiti, signs, newspaper stories — and the interpretive space opened up between their transmission and reception are explored in works such as Homage to the Walls of Athens 1941 - 19..., 1958, by Vlassis Caniaris (1928 — 2011), a palimpsest of sacking, wax and cloth saturated with whitewash plaster in which we see fragmentary hand - painted letters — including the letter E, for Eleftheria (freedom), for Ellás (Greece), for EAM, the National Liberation Front, the main movement of the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupation during World War II.

The power of words — slogans, graffiti, signs, newspaper stories — and the interpretive space opened up between their transmission and reception are explored in works such as Homage to the Walls of Athens 1941 - 19..., 1959, by Vlassis Caniaris (1928 - 2011), a palimpsest of sacking, wax and cloth saturated with whitewash plaster in which we see fragmentary hand - painted letters — including the letter E, for Eleftheria (freedom), for Ellás (Greece), for EAM, the National Liberation Front, the main movement of the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupation during World War II.

The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam's intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000.

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria's National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French - Algerian War

Shortly before our screening of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, one of the organizers for the New York Film Festival announced that, unfortunately, Saadi Yacef — one of the real - life leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front -LSB-...]

While working as a reporter for Newsweek in 1957, Ben created controversy when he interviewed members of the National Liberation Front (FLN).

Ounouri takes his great uncle back to the places where he once was a «fidaï» (killer) for the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front).

They had been put off by tribal hostility, discouraging results and — in the 1960s — escalating regional violence as the Marxist - leaning National Liberation Front tried to extend its control over southern Arabian sheikhdoms and sultanates, culminating in the establishment of South Yemen in 1967.

Yet, political in - fighting within CNDD / FDD and its contestation with FNL (the National Liberation Front) suggest that ethnicity is not the fault line that it was in the past.

I did not think it right to support the National Liberation Front, because its victory would necessarily result in the impoverishment of the French colons, in a dictatorship, and in far - reaching retrogression in every department of Algerian life.

They protested nonviolently against the French war in Algeria, but ignored the violences committed by the National Liberation Front.

How about the Manmasi National Christian Army and the National Liberation Front of Tripura, who force Hindus to convert at gun point and are known to encourage the murder of Hindu children?

♦ The newsletter Religion and Democracy notes that some churches in North America have what might be described as an ambiguous attitude toward the guerrillas in El Salvador, the Earabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

How about members of the IRA, the Ulster Defence League, The Manmase National Christian Army, the National Liberation Front of Tripura, The Army of God, The Aryan nations, Phineas Priesthood, The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord, The Iron Guard, The Lancieri, The Lord's Resistance Army...

Is torturing with a razor, as the National Liberation Front did, worse or less bad than torturing with electricity, as the French paras did?

(Saul Bernstein: Alternatives to Violence: Alienated Youth and Riots, Race and Poverty (New York: Association Press, 1967) On the basis of his analysis, he proposes solutions that are quite as inadequate as those that France proposed to the National Liberation Front in 1957.

In the great majority of cases, indeed in all the cases I know (Martin Luther King is the one exception), Christians step into line in response to vast propaganda campaigns, launched by others, for this or that group of the «poor» — for example, the Algerians of the National Liberation Front, the North Vietnamese, the proletariat.

It is painful for me to pronounce this judgment on the multitude of Christians who sided with the National Liberation Front during the Algerian war.

Therefore, their partisanship for the National Liberation Front was prompted by political views, by doctrinal or intellectual considerations, or — in most cases — simply by propaganda.

During the Algerian war, France's left - wing intellectuals constantly protested against the brutality of the French army and its use of torture, but pronounced legitimate the torturings and massacres committed by the National Liberation Front.

Not exact matches

It is not yet known whether Gove's new look is directly connected to his poor performance in the recent Tory contest, but the National Beard Liberation Front suggested that it might well be.

He met Armando Guebuza, the national political commissar of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the man who would become president of that African nation.

Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice delivered its highly anticipated judgment in case C - 104 / 16 P Council v Front Polisario, on appeal against the General Court (GC) judgment in case T - 512 / 12 Front Polisario v Council, an action for annulment brought by Front Polisario, the national liberation movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.