Sentences with phrase «war years poor»

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For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

I was born during the Depression in a poor neighborhood, saw my brothers drafted into World War II, was drafted myself during the Korean War, built businesses, raised a family, and lost a daughter, all in the 70 years before I stepped into the newspaper world.

Last year we had a leadership election and nearly all the candidates opposed the Iraq war, opposed the privatisation of the post office, opposed 90 and 42 day detention without trial, thought we had become too illiberal on issues like ASBOs and control orders and were failing to deliver for the poorer end of society.

The two countries have had poor relations since a two - year border war, which...

«The House I Live In»: For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer and damaged poor communities at home and abroad.

In the first year, even before President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his War on Poverty, 55 boys, all poor and mostly African - American, took part in an academically rigorous summer program.

So far the only foreigners in Juba and its surroundings are the 4,000 or so NGO and UN workers, here to rebuild one of Africa's poorest regions after 30 years of civil war.

Think of it like this: Lucasarts gave us a boring, visually poor MMORPG several years ago with Star Wars Galaxies.

Alongside this, as well as relatively poor sales of games in the year prior that were principally AAA single - player games (Resident Evil 7, Prey, Dishonored 2, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided) against financially successful multiplayer games and those offer a games - as - a-service model (Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Star Wars Battlefront 2), were indicators to many that the single - player model for AAA was waning.

Hopefully Intelligent Systems is making the next Advance Wars game right now I own and love 3 of the 4 (Dual Strike and Days of Ruin both came out during my dirt broke poor college years when I didn't buy video game stuff and when I was past that point I found Days of Ruin at Best Buy, but no Dual Strike)

Look at what a much poorer America was able to build in six years to fight the second world war.

It has a population of 3.2 million and is one of the poorest nations on earth with GDP per capita of just $ 1,000, partly a result of the civil war that seethed there for 14 years and left 150,000 people dead.