Sentences with phrase «war experience on»

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Whether it's finding emotional attachment from heated situations or maintaining an unpredictable schedule, episodes explore leadership skills, discipline and more, frequently featuring interviews with veterans, whose experiences in at war shed light on fortitude and perseverance in any situation.

But her experience of suffering, largely in silence, was hardly unique among the 28,000 troops who have served at the U.S. military prison since it opened in 2002 to indefinitely detain captives in the «war on terror.»

In an appearance on the BBC before the rally on Sunday, Stewart talked about his childhood as a «war baby» and how he experienced the world as «not good» before the U.K. joined the EU in 1973.

And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

Disney's interest made perfect sense: it owns some of the most - loved properties on the planet, from original Disney characters to Star Wars to Marvel (great toy material); was already in the toys business; and despite a trimming - down of internal game studios, still had Avalanche Software, an experienced game developer with a lot of talent.

Stock market futures dropped after the news, a sign that the markets will experience volatility on Wednesday as investors see the odds of a trade war as increasingly likely.

To do so, Ukraine has to rely on the experiences of other countries that overcame comparable challenges of totalitarianism, war, and propaganda.

The whole experience was a painful reminder of how victims of war can be found on both sides of the gun.

The experience of war, its demonic destructiveness and blatant self - righteousness, had a profoundly disturbing impact on my soul and mind.

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

Lakor, who's a partner of Christian children's charity World Vision, presented a Tedx Talk on Friday on her experience of war as a child as part of this year's Whitehall Women event at HMS President in London.

just as a comment on my own personal experience, the next religious conservative i meet who expresses remorse over the loss of sacred but iraqi life, civilian or military, in the iraq war will be the first.

But regardless, I say that Dylan, for the sake of civilized and civic - minded decency, and yes, also on the grounds of hesitancy about so categorically pitting his young man's gut instinct against the experienced judgment of men like Kennan and Aron, should have aborted «Masters of War» before it ever emerged from his lips.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

Confronted with the communist advance across the 38 th parallel on June 25, 1950, the experience of the Korean War jump - started a containment policy that had been articulated in NSC - 68 less than two months before.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

In this video essay Burnett discusses her own experiences in the Middle East and speaks to an awarding - winning journalist, Deborah Scroggins, the author of «Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & The War on Terror,» to try and answer the question «Islamic or Islamist?»

There's soon going to be another way to experience the Star Wars universe on this side of the galaxy.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

If prayer worked, everyone would do it, because prayerful people would experience better health, less divorce, fewer children on drugs, greater success, lower death rates, less obesity... there would be no war or starvation or murdered babies.

As we continue marking the centenary of this conflict, it is useful to focus on the British Catholic experience of the war.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

A recent California poll designed to ascertain the general population's views on the possibility of nuclear war revealed that 85 per cent thought they personally would experience a nuclear war.

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.

He too, an intense patriot, cared supremely for his nation's welfare but, as the nation broke up under the shock of war and exile, his experience of God became a profound, inner possession in the strength of which alone he carried on through tragic days.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

The impact of social tragedy upon sensitive minds from 1914 on is well represented by Paul Tillich's testimony concerning his experience as a German chaplain in World War I.

The death of his mother when he was six and of his father when he was 16 pushed Merton into an intense experience of the vulnerability felt by so many between the wars, and led to a cosmic sense of loss and nearly to a breakdown, both physical and mental — a vulnerability he described as «living on the doorsill of the Apocalypse» (ibid.).

But Georgia still has experienced athletes on offense, and it still has a pair of lines that must / can win their respective wars on Saturday.

As the Iraq War came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeaWar came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeawar that dragged on for eight years.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.

Thomas Weber wrote a fascinating book on Hitler's First World War experiences and his soldiering in the List Regiment.

Considering Donetsk / Lugansk: according to Russia's position, Ukraine experiences an internal civil crisis; the «war» is an illusion created by government - controlled Ukrainian media and Western media, and Russian presence in these states is exclusively based on volunteers.

Undoubtedly influenced by the experience of the Iraq war and occupation but also influenced by the «war on terror» he inherited, Obama pursued an eclectic mix of «pragmatic» rather than «principled» foreign policies.

First and foremost, Clinton's «war room» should begin scrapping the headline of the current campaign narrative, which focuses almost exclusively on her experience and political centrism.

The experience of colonialism created a strong sentiment against intervention among newly independent states, but as the Cold War era ended, Francis Deng, then Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General on Internally Displaced Persons, developed the idea that «sovereignty entails rights contingent on «sovereignty as responsibility».»

His experience is one small battle of a war that has been going on for 30 years.

Dahr Jamail's 2010 article, «Rape Rampant in US Military», discusses on the «extreme shame and trauma» experienced by US military personnel who have survived sexual violence, as their stories all too often go unheard or are blatantly disregarded by the military (see also the documentary exposé «The Invisible War», on the subject of US military inaction towards sexual violence within the armed forces).

The NDC MP also launched vitriolic attacks on President Akufo - Addo, calling on him to wake up in dealing with vigilantism before Ghana start experiencing a replica of Bokom Haram and other civil wars.

After false reports of gunfire prompted stampedes at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night, city and state officials described the unprecedented chaos as a learning experience, while New York police commissioner Bill Bratton said it resembled the «fog of war.»

«I don't believe there's an agency on this Earth that has more experience helping with the war on opioids or drugs of any kind than the people on the border,» Henry said.

After an opening statement on his own family's experience in dealing with his father's physical and emotional wounds from World War II combat and the broader shortfalls in government aid for veterans, de Blasio answered questions.

Novick, who is the co-producer and co-director with Ken Burns of the 10 - part, 18 - hour epic documentary, The Vietnam War, discusses the significance of 1968 in the conflict, the idea that there is not just one truth to the war, and how her experience working on this groundbreaking documentary influenced her view of the Vietnam WWar, discusses the significance of 1968 in the conflict, the idea that there is not just one truth to the war, and how her experience working on this groundbreaking documentary influenced her view of the Vietnam Wwar, and how her experience working on this groundbreaking documentary influenced her view of the Vietnam WarWar.

The movie is a drama based on the experiences of Agu (played by Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed West African country.

Though their formative political experiences were during the decade - long civil war between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, they are, in party terms, «postwar» politicians, desperate to move on.

Odih in a chat with DAILY POST on Sunday admonished the Governor to drop the idea of employing a new set of lecturers and settle his differences with the old and the experienced ones with whom he is at war.

Your «war cabinet» plan makes complete sense Richard as this is clearly the time to draw on the experience of all senior Tories who have not only been in government, but in government during a tricky economic time.

He said that members of his team were determined to bring their skills to bear on the Nigerian economy and use the experienced garnered in the war against terrorism to also turn around the negative narration about the economy and political stability generally.

Goss and Guerra say that their shared experiences on the battlefield are always in the background but that the fast pace of the research environment leaves little time to «have a beer and talk about our war stories,» as Guerra puts it.

«I feel the new GI Bill will offer more enhanced opportunities in the 21st century for many to pursue college education,» Latigo says, a conclusion he bases «on the experience of the original GI Bill after World War II that expanded opportunities for many, particularly in the technical disciplines.»