Sentences with phrase «war era by»

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Under current law, CBO expects debt held by the public to rise continuously over the next decade from today's post — World War II era record levels.

Kennedy's 1962 missive was borne out of national pride, fueled in large part by latent Cold War - era tensions between national governments.

Under current law, debt is projected to grow from a post-World War II era high of 77 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 91 percent by 2027.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

But you point to a different set of people, Ross, that should have objected to the war at the beginning and are now declaring that they are empowered by the Republicans» defeat on Tuesday: old conservatives of the Reagan and Bush - I eras, such as Brent Scowcroft or George Will.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Later in the Middle Ages, and particularly during the era of the Hundred Years War, this canonical and theological conception of just war was further elaborated by incorporation of ideas, customs, and practices from the chivalric code and the experience of war, from renewed attention to Roman law, especially the jus gentium, and from the developing experience of governmeWar, this canonical and theological conception of just war was further elaborated by incorporation of ideas, customs, and practices from the chivalric code and the experience of war, from renewed attention to Roman law, especially the jus gentium, and from the developing experience of governmewar was further elaborated by incorporation of ideas, customs, and practices from the chivalric code and the experience of war, from renewed attention to Roman law, especially the jus gentium, and from the developing experience of governmewar, from renewed attention to Roman law, especially the jus gentium, and from the developing experience of government.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

He cites in support of his claim John XXIII's statement in his 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris that «it is hardly possible to imagine that in an atomic era war could be used as an instrument of justice,» and a similar statement by Benedict XVI.

Post-World War II Germany, however, has confronted the truth of the Nazi era, decade by decade, in an accumulation of public reminders of its evils — evils that must be remembered before they can be forgotten.

[5] Costumes worn by singer Carmen Miranda in several World War II - era Hollywood films featured turbans, including increasingly outrageous and oversized piles of fruit - as - headgear, supposedly modelled on those worn by Brasilian market ladies.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

... Don't forget that these same household codes were used by many Americans during the Civil War era to justify their owning of slaves.

After World War II there was a remarkable change in theology led by Reinhold Niebuhr and others which resulted in many great preachers entering the pulpit during this era, establishing the beliefs and the theology that underlie action.

Why go: The re-enactment also includes war surgeons demonstrating the medical practices of that era and appearances by generals and the president, Abraham Lincoln.

The simple detail of the dress lent itself well to a wide range of accessory options and I went for my grandmother's Korean War era garnets and a scarlet made - by - me cashmere cloche decorated with an art - deco black mother of pearl button, a treasure acquired during a visit to Paris.

The era ushered in by stealth technologies could revolutionize war - making, surveillance, and military - technological relations, creating new interstate competitions and potential security dilemmas.

It is at this point that you see the emergence of socio - economic factors that remain of relevance after the war and into the Communist era: a drive for economic self - sufficiency, social welfare stimulated by the refugee crisis — the government needed to cope with 80 million refugees.

Stereotypes of the British as Victorian - era imperialists are as cack - handed and ignorant as jokes about the Germans still being Nazis, but they play well to her domestic audience, who are still bruised by the war and Argentina's perpetual obsession with its own cultural superiority - a sort of Japan of the Latin Americas.

«In the colonial and revolutionary war era, [small - arms] weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.»

Labour is haunted by the Blair / Brown war about succession as much as our own party was, post-1997, by the Thatcher / Major - era conflicts over Europe.

Today's funding system, adopted by the federal government in the wake of World War II, initially focused both on educating scientists to meet the nation's needs in an era when faculty openings were plentiful, and on encouraging faculty members to perform fundamental research.

In the 1980s, journalist Götz Aly correlated brain tissue slides collected by Julius Hallervorden, the World War II — era director of the neuropathology department at KWG's Institute for Brain Research here, with a group of 38 children who were murdered by the euthanasia program one day in October 1940.

In the era following World War II, science in the United States was culturally homogeneous, labs were small, research funds were easy to come by, and scientists had wives at home to watch the kids.

As important, by examining the political, technological, and even cultural history of this quest during the post-World War II era, this book highlights the essential role played by space exploration in shaping our understanding of life back on Earth.»

by Alex Brett Mystery: A suicide in a remote astronomical observatory opens up an even older, Cold War era mystery.

There was a time that yoga was attached to liberalism by the disenfranchised in the Vietnam War era but even then, who knows what the deeply held beliefs of every «hippy» was.

Now Django begins as a pre-Civil War - era slave, played by Jamie Foxx.

«Mudbound,» a sprawling World War II - era drama by Dee Rees, plays like great literature on the screen.

«Mudbound» is a World War II - era drama by director Dee Rees, which follows two families in Mississippi.

Here, the Coens use the Waldropian approach by replaying the story of Ulysses» long journey home from the Trojan Wars to Ithaca against the backdrop of Depression - era Mississippi.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

In an era dominated by modern military and sci - fi shooters, Battlefield 1 going back to the Great War is a refreshing change of pace.

On the surface, 1943's The Gang's All Here released by 20th Century Fox, appears to be one of many World War Two era morale boosting escapist films.

As if casting two - time winner Tom Hanks as a Cold War - era lawyer recruited by the CIA to rescue an American pilot wasn't enough to ensure an Oscar shot, Steven Spielberg went and hauled in the Coen brothers to polish up the screenplay.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.

Set against the backdrop of the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era after World War II, Mudbound is both a timeless and timely film following two families — one black, one white — bound together by the hardships of farm life.

Mudbound By Ashley Clark Leaping to another level of incisive historical cinema, writer - director Dee Rees creates a World War II — era American epic from a perspective all too often ignored

Adapted by Rees and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, it is a period epic spanning about five years, from America's 1941 entry into World War II to the immediate postwar era.

That sentiment, so rife in the»70s, seems to be present in much of action cinema today, typified by the Bourne franchise or even the blockbusting Hunger Games; Watergate and Vietnam have been replaced by the Iraq War in a post-9 / 11 era of whistleblowing and WikiLeaks.

Nioh is new challenging game that takes you in war ranging era of Japan infested with demons and warriors protected by their guardian spirits.

The uninspired modern visual style contrasted by the washed out greys of the war era scenes.

They even make Ray Harryhausen's special effects, which (let's be honest here) was already outdated by the time the movie was released in the era of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and Close Encounters, look better.

Personally I see it as some kind of commentary on the international political conformity of the post-Cold War era, George Bush's so - called «New Order» enforced by the U.S. military.

He has both feet stuck in an era that's slipping away, but he's heading for a fall when he becomes smitten with (and confused by) Christina Applegate, a hyper - competent, liberated reporter hired by boss Fred Willard for the sake of «diversity» — a word Ferrell for some reason believes refers to a wooden Civil War ship.

Based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and the Tony Award - winning play of the same name, «War Horse» is like a movie from another era — an old - fashioned, Golden Age - style epic in the vein of «Gone with the Wind.»

This is yet another sequel to Captain America following The Winter Soldier last year, but it also expands the universe by being the first segue into the «Civil War» era.

Directed by Zaza Urushadze, «Tangerines» centers on an older Estonian man who cares for two wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the 1990s - era war in Georgia.

«Mudbound,» written and directed by Dee Rees, is a historical epic depicting World War II - era Mississippi starring Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.