Sentences with phrase «war during the collapse»

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It was bombed heavily during two world wars and saw its massive colonial empire collapse.

Russia has largely staked its credibility in the Middle East on saving Syrian President Bashar Assad's government from collapse during its bloody seven - year civil war.

Before branching out on his own, he was one of legendary investor Julian Robertson's first so - called tiger cubs, responsible for some big market calls during the 1990s such as the collapse of oil prices after start of the Persian Gulf War and the plunge in the British pound.

This colonial system collapsed during and after World War II.

The collapse of sacred order in Europe during the World Wars left many of Europe's surviving Jewish intellectuals to stake their theory and practice on the future of the United States and Israel.

All the hidden secrets of the atrocities and crimes against humanity committed against the people of Biafra during the war of genocide between 1967 and 1970 will become the most talked about topic within diplomatic circles around the world until Nigeria collapses.

The film goes back - and - forth from the camp to their days before the war, as director Andrei Konachalovsky collapses their identities, while offering a new perspective on the Holocaust and the morally complex choices people must make during the darkest of moments.

The Empire steadily declined during the 19th century and collapsed in the wake of World War I.

Furthermore, one can see the surges in bank credit accompanying these periods and tie them to specific policy moves by the authorities: The Treasury stimulated inflation in the early 1900s; the Fed deliberately inflated in the roaring 1920s to take the pressure off the British pound (which had been devalued during World War I); the Roosevelt administration took the reins off inflation by debasing the gold - content of the dollar in 1933; zealous money printing in the 1960s led to the inevitable collapse of the Bretton Woods system (and complete fiat money was born); money printing continued apace with Alan Greenspan in the 1990s and, following the dot - com crash, into the 2000s.

Dada's snideness and Cubism's deconstruction limned the collapse of traditional order signaled by the end of the Gilded Age and the carnage of World War I. Grant Wood's American Gothic exudes a hard - bitten stoicism that reflects the futility of government policy during the Great Depression.

Colour field painting came about as a result of different independent attempts by Still, Rothko and Newman, during the late 1940s, to create an eternal form of art which might transcend the ethical collapse triggered by the chaos and carnage of World War II: a type of painting that would speak for itself.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.