Sentences with phrase «u.s. war efforts»

War Savings stamps give low - income citizens an affordable means to fund the U.S. war effort.

The only answer one can take away from Five Came Back, a somewhat choppy but unavoidably fascinating documentary about five major Hollywood directors who, after Pearl Harbor, left house and home and handsome salaries to spend several years in uniform making documentaries for the U.S. war effort, is yes.

Ahead of President Obama's December review of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)- sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Af...

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One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

He added that «much remains to be done» in U.S. foreign policy, pointing to efforts to end a civil war in Syria and ensure stability in Iraq.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

He might begin with the U.S. - allied war efforts against ISIS, which has had its difficulties since Obama first authorized stepped up airstrikes and some ground action in mid-204.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

It also ruins nascent diplomatic efforts, raises fears of war or a pre-emptive U.S. strike and casts a deeper shadow over the security of the Winter Olympics early next year in South Korea.

and Sen. Mike Lee (R - Utah), announced a joint effort to end the U.S. intervention in Yemen's civil war.

Basic economy is one prong of a broader effort by the largest U.S. carriers to bolster revenue from each seat flown a mile, a standard industry measure that has been battered for about a year, partly because of fare wars with discounters such as Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines Holdings.

Episcopal Bishop Browning indicated that he was certain that the 80 percent polling support for the war effort in the U.S. amounted only to sentiment for the troops and not support for the policy.

However, several examples related to U.S. rhetoric about Nicaragua can illustrate how disinformation is used in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the U.S. war against the poor.

In El Salvador repression and terror are central to U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in defense of an unpopular government at war against its own people.

Below, I complained that a) The White House, and b) the media have failed to make even minimal efforts to explain to U.S. citizens what our war - making policy now is in Libya, given Qaddafi's fall.

The invasion of Panama was justified as part of U.S. efforts to fight the drug war.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed in an appearance Friday at Kennedy Airport to wage a law enforcement «war» on opioids, akin to the anti-drug efforts of the 1980s.

This AAAS Archives special exhibit includes an online text on the significance of Golden's efforts and a searchable database of over 200 documents.Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of U.S. Science Policy This online volume contains selected memoranda from this collection.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with conceiving the idea of daylight saving in 1784 to conserve candles, but the U.S. did not institute it until World War I as a way to preserve resources for the war effoWar I as a way to preserve resources for the war effowar effort.

The discovery is part of a trend among local and foreign scientists to focus again on Afghanistan after decades of civil war and invasions there, says Stephen Peters, lead researcher on a U.S. Geological Survey effort to assess the mineral resources in the central Asian country.

In the U.S. there was some alarm at the prospects of being unable to project power at sea should the nation need to go to war, and increasing effort was devoted to building the largest and most modern battleships in the U.S. Navy.

It's the early»70s and Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys, «The Americans») is a U.S. military analyst who has grown angry over what he sees as the discrepancy between the grim, deadly reality of a failing Vietnam War effort and the government's public face of inevitable victory.

WHAT: After Japan's surrender brings an end to World War II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives in the country to spearhead the recovery effort, placing General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in charge of an investigative task force to decide whether Japan's beloved emperor is guilty of any war crimWar II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives in the country to spearhead the recovery effort, placing General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in charge of an investigative task force to decide whether Japan's beloved emperor is guilty of any war crimwar crimes.

They're also, late in the game, instructed that they have to cast an American in the film because, in addition to British propaganda, the government now needs this film to persuade the U.S. to help out with the war efforts.

In this case, a story about a 25 - year veteran teacher's admirable efforts to teach his U.S. History AP students about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is littered with pat phrases intended to score points against education reformers.

Within its walls, visitors learn about the U.S. Army language school created just before the attack on Pearl Harbor where mostly Japanese American soldiers were trained as linguists supporting the American World War II effort.

Throughout World War I, more American women than ever before took leadership roles in wartime efforts through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, replaced men in vacated jobs when soldiers were sent to the battlefields, and actively supported the U.S. military as nurses, yeomen, clerical workers, or «Hello Girls» operating switchboards.

In his own words, Paglen's artistic project is to create «new metaphors» for the «invisible war» — the weaponization of space, the militarization of the internet, mass surveillance, and counterintelligence efforts by U.S. and foreign governments over the past 15 years, most of which remain classified.

Trump is waging war against efforts to curb U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

To support the war effort Monumental Life insurance purchased 2.9 million in U.S. treasury bills and invested $ 4.5 million in war - related manufacturing companies.

Greenspan said, «Bitcoin is not rational,» and compared it with a fiat currency that the U.S. Continental Congress minted in 1775 to finance the American revolutionary war effort.

Mr. Bakke served in the U.S. Naval Reserve for 14 years and was a former F - 14 aviator, attaining more than 1000 flight hours with direct involvement in such world crisis situations as the Iranian hostage rescue effort and the Iran - Iraq war.

In spite of putting forth their best efforts, drugstores trail dollar stores in the war for U.S. consumers.