Sentences with phrase «war heroic efforts»

On the contrary, during the decade after the World War heroic efforts were made to maintain intercourse by organizational devices of one kind and another.

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It's chilling commentary on a war that has dragged on much too long... despite the heroic efforts of the 12 horse soldiers.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

Last Men in Aleppo (Netflix, iTunes, Google Play) This issue doc's topic is the Syrian civil war, and particularly the heroic efforts of the volunteer - supported humanitarian - aid organization known as the White Helmets.

Captain Karen Walden (Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle) is the first woman ever to be nominated for the military's vaunted Medal of Honor after dying in a seemingly heroic effort in the Gulf War.

Set in the deep south during World War II, the quiet, intimate romance plumbs the hideous effects of racial prejudice and honors heroic efforts — all made by women — to make things right.

Powerful illustrations illuminate a little - known aspect of World War II resistance: the heroic Muslim effort to orchestrate the escape of Jews who were aggressively pursued by Nazis during the four - year occupation of Paris.

That was why Father Leonard, my history teacher, was spending one last class period droning on about World War II and the heroic efforts of General Henry M. Lowery to alert America to the dangers of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

That includes heroic war dogs, fire department dogs, search and rescue dogs and people of 9/11, participants in the rescue and recovery effort in the Gulf States, Middle East War military veterans, service dogs and therapy dog teams and the people, patients and families they touch, and many mowar dogs, fire department dogs, search and rescue dogs and people of 9/11, participants in the rescue and recovery effort in the Gulf States, Middle East War military veterans, service dogs and therapy dog teams and the people, patients and families they touch, and many moWar military veterans, service dogs and therapy dog teams and the people, patients and families they touch, and many more.

My opinion is that the Gulf War was the only major heroic effort in recent decades and except for the DU shells was fairly fought.

It's one of the (many) ironies of this whole debate that some see heroic collective action as the only way to avoid catastrophe (one comment I've read recently is that we need a «World War II scale effort to save humanity from self - destruction.»)