Sentences with phrase «war battle on»

Langport was also the scene of a major Civil War battle on 10 July 1645, in which the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists.

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For the first time, take Turf War battles on - the - go with the Nintendo Switch ™ system, and use any of the console's portable play styles for intense local multiplayer * action.

Fight in epic Star Wars battles on iconic planets and rise through the ranks playing as the heroic Rebellion or the evil galactic Empire.

Not exact matches

The battle over healthcare reform may look and sound as if it's a war on the periphery of daily life, but it is core to it.

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

Start with a resume that sounds like you and not every Star Wars battle drone on the job market, then customize your resume for every opportunity.

The long - term battle on trade between the U.S. and China shows no sign of ending as a war of words ensued this week between the two.

So they're fighting a battle on two fronts: a PR war to boost paper's environmental and usability credentials, and an innovation race to find new applications for the pulp we no longer want to hold in our hands.

During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, when the German Ardennes Offensive threatened to swallow up a surrounded American division at Bastogne, Patton pushed his men through mud and snow and relieved Bastogne on Dec. 26, 1944.

«If we're going to make any sort of progress on winning this global war against Jihadism, we've got to focus on the ideology and win the battle of ideas, not just have a look at their propaganda tools and their frontmen and their symbols.»

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

(For more on DuPont's bitter proxy battle, read Fortune's feature story How DuPont Went to War with Activist Investor Nelson Peltz)

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

So if your social extensions resulted in thousands of people clicking on your ads but no one actually buying anything from you, you would win the battle but lose the war (more specifically, you would be making money for Google but not for your business).

We fought battle after battle — and often won — but the war rages on.

Explore why a focus on compliance - driven security risk programs can put entities at a great disadvantage in dealing with these challenges — and what's needed to implement a more war - minded approach to battle the evolving threat landscape.

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Cohn has been fiercely battling the president and an influential contingent of anti-free trade advisers in the White House over Trump's plan to impose sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum import, warning that it could spark a major trade war.

On hold, if not vanished, are the revived battles of the Civil War of 150 years ago and President Donald Trump's foolhardy insistence that he will shut down the government if Congress does not authorize spending for a wall along the southern border.

It's fascinating to see controversy stirred up over an old blog post by NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice in which he called World War I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqWar I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqwar» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.»

However, while it appears that the exchanges have won the battle, the war is still on - and the fear in the markets is that the governments might outlaw cryptocurrencies and issue a blanket ban on them in the nation.

I also remember singing «Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus, going on before, Christ the Royal Master, leads against the foe — forward into to battle, see his banners glow...»

(Can't expect decent people to fight next to coloreds, can't trust colored men in a battle, don't use the army for liberal politics, the soldiers are against it, the civilians don't know what they're doing, there's a war on and this isn't the right time, etc.) It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Bookstores were crowded with volumes on the Civil War or World War II, but there was little on medieval battles fought in faraway lands.

Albert Shanker and the American Federation of Teachers may have won some of the battles in Brooklyn, but they lost the larger war, as American liberalism, forced to choose between maintaining its classic emphasis on a race - blind society and keeping pace with the new black militancy, eventually chose the latter.

I have mixed feelings about the whole «War on Christmas» battle that gets waged every year around this time.

Perhaps I am allowing my mind get away from me and that I have watched the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Dune, or other sci - fi movies too many times but I wonder if there is real battle going on for «Middle Earth».

When I had a «discussion» with one of my sons when they were small we compromised on a way forward through a deal, you might call it an unwritten contract, binding on both sides, I could have beaten the living daylights out of him, but that would have not solved the problem, I may have won the battle but not the war.

There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

Dear 2KM and 2KJ, I am so glad to read that you to took part on this very special day.It is time to reeembmr past and present soldiers who went out to battle, so that we can live in a war free country.

It's no surprise that Lindsay frames this as a battle; the factors driving this trend are as complex as any war and require both a boots - on - the - ground response and effective strategy at policy level.

Is our grasp on history so faint that we have forgotten the last time we intervened in Afghanistan to support the Mujaheddin in their war against the Soviets and then left when we thought the battle was won?

Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in wars with its enemies — which means, of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to sacrifice their sons, this time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

So, we're not trying to win this war; we're just trying to survive the battle, and hold on to the ground God has given to us to defend.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

More egregious on the score of pacifism is this representation of God in the midst of a psalm celebrating victory in battle: «There you break flaming arrows, / shield and sword and war itself.»

Editor's Note: In the August / September 2009 issue of First Things, currently on news stands, is a major new essay by René Girard drawn from his recent book, Achever Clausewitz, forthcoming as Battling to the End: Politics, War, and Apocalypse from Michigan State University Press.

The Hebrew Bible, on which Jesus was nurtured, is full of wars; the blood of battle oozes from its pages.

Then the warrior Arjuna, reflecting on how kinsmen were about to destroy each other in battle, suddenly speaks — and in his speech gives utterance to one of the noblest protests against war ever uttered by a soldier.

Somewhere on the continuum belong wars where the function ascribed to Yahweh was to «raise up» the leader of the battle, or where the ruach - Yahweh (spirit of the LORD) inspired such a leader.

We Christians condemn Islam for engaging in Jihad on America, but we engage in Holy War by invoking God's name as we head out to battle against others.

Bloomberg brought home the point that the propaganda war now being waged on Islam in America threatens to undercut our counterinsurgency battle for «hearts and minds» in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think they should have a discussion on «battle» referring to war and then relate it to bible verses.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

On one such recent pilgrimage to Charlottesville, my route took me through Bull Run Park, the site of two major Civil War battles.

The calculus for the importance of any particular battle, in terms of its lasting impact on the great war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent, is simple enough.

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.