Sentences with phrase «war battles fought»

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

Not exact matches

At times, my body won the battle but I kept fighting the war.

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.

The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.

He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II, a service that had him defusing land mines and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.

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

«From the outside looking in, Travis seems to want to fight wars instead of win battles.

There are parents who object to the «Battle Hymn of the Republic» because they either see it as «religious» in nature, or because they are from south of the Mason - Dixon line and are still fighting the War of Northern Aggression.

(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.

I agree with others, though, who say there are far more important atheist battles to fight, such as getting the Pledge of Allegiance back to its pre-Cold War wording.

They could have used this for military advantage in a battle with their long - term enemies, the Medes, but instead it appears that they used it to engineer a lasting peace, because when the darkness interrupted the fighting, they said that the gods were demanding an end to the war.

Even today, wars begin and battles are fought under the facade of Christian religion.

If we can be slower to respond in anger every time a controversy unfolds, culture war battle is being fought or a joke gets made at our expense, we can actually be recognized for how we love.

It seems that that battle has already been fought, during World War I, when General Allenby drove the Ottoman Empire out of the Holy Land.

In World War II, as Hitler advanced across Europe in his quest for world domination, many of the battles the Nazi army fought could hardly be called battles.

The last term here, milhamah, sometimes means «war» in the Bible but more commonly «battle,» «fighting,» or «assault.»

Their theology was expressed in terms of «struggle», «fight», «battle», and «war».

Contemporary Islamic reform: Both Khalidi and Kepel are sharply critical of what they believe are counterproductive approaches currently being employed by the U.S. Kepel argues that the most important battle in the war for Muslim minds will be fought not in Iraq or Israel / Palestine, but in the suburbs of Paris, London and other Western cities where Islam is now a fixture, Two prominent Muslims — Feisal Abdul Rauf and Tariq Ramadan — develop this theme in new books that have attracted considerable attention.

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In culture wars, as in philosophical debate, words are often like towns along the battle front: they offer a strategic position and must be fought for and defended, and not relinquished as soon as the enemy advances.

Though the war had been won, though death and the devil had been defeated, there were still battles to be fought, and captives to be freed.

OOO — SPIRITUAL BATTLE — spiritual warfare is the cosmic war of good versus evil: its battles are fought daily between God and Satan; between the Christian Church and the world system ruled by our spiritual enemy; and within every child of God, between the Holy Spirit and the lusts of the carnal flesh.

The RAF played a key role in the Second World War, including fighting the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain which prompted the tribute by Winston Churchill that «never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few».

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.

Not just the wars like the one we are fighting in Iraq, but the little battles in our life.

When you're trading half your roster and all of your assets for a superstar that A) doesn't want to be there longterm, B) is recovering from a potentially chronic injury, and C) has never won an MVP... maybe fighting that battle means you've already lost the war.

Well YES and NO now we have the FFP in place so it's even again in fact we should come on top becouse we have gone through the pain of building the next generation stadium and new lucrative sponsership unlike nearly all of the EPL clubs, my reason for AW to step aside is becouse his not upgrading his always trying to make do, we the Arsenal want to fight the war and not the battle.

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

so I think they have to find ways to get themselves «up» for the fight and in the proper mind frame for war / battle.

One of the most fiercely fought battles in the «mummy wars» is breast vs. formula feeding.

Mark P. Naughton Sr., 81, of Arlington Heights, was a retired salesman who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and escaped a German prison camp during World War II.

In principle, war is meant to be conducted between militaries fighting in a battle and, civilians are not directly targeted.

Even the U.S. was transformed, though no battles had been fought on its soil — after the war and the economic changes it wrought, the traditionally isolationist country was firmly established as a first - rate world power, hard as its politicians might try to retreat from that reality.

In a new pamphlet from the Fabian Society, David Coats warns that unions are «stuck in the past, fighting battles in a class war that is of little relevance to most people today».

Stefanik benefited from a similar air war against Woolf, a first - time candidate who fought an uphill battle in an election year that favored the GOP.

The fight over the building permit is the latest battle in a war between Miner and Cor.

In California, where former eBay executive Meg Whitman beat businessman Steve Poizner in a bitterly fought primary battle in the campaign for governor, it sometimes seemed as if there was a bidding war for bloggers.

He was the top ROTC grad in Connecticut before he led fighting men into battle during the War in Afghanistan.

«I have no regrets about taking on this battle; I know that the fight for reform is a long war, and I care too much about New York to stand aside.

He mocked the Daily News for suggesting Mr. Sanders» was «at war with reality,» which the councilman argued was a battle worth fighting.

Any plan to close the crumbling facilities, which have been the site of brutal episodes of violence and are now subject to federal oversight, would probably require Mr. de Blasio to embark on a yearslong political war fought in many pitched battles.

Battles have been fought, and wars won, over the pull of shiny precious metals, which have long symbolized power and influence.

«You can imagine that [algae and corals] have evolved over the years different mechanisms for battling each other and fighting these turf wars,» Smith says.

By comparison, during the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in 1863, roughly 150,000 soldiers fought (less than 0.5 % of the divided nation's population).

Rain Dates Nearly 400 battles were fought during the Civil War, though rarely on rainy days, when it was hard to move cannons and horses over soggy ground, Charles Hosler says.

And it's not just about the men and women who so bravely fought in battle or lost their lives in war... it's about the hundreds of thousands of those who have died since the war or since their time in service.

The American Civil War was one of the bloodiest series of battles ever fought within a single country.

Richard was killed fighting Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the last major battle of the Wars of the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the last major battle of the Wars of the battle of the Wars of the Roses.