Sentences with phrase «world war period»

A key question today is whether we are still in the economic and financial landscape of the post-Second World War period or are we in a new, so far undefined landscape?

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It includes market crashes, periods of high inflation, deflation, economic collapse, a nuclear missile crisis, a world war, a cold war and countless seemingly intractable crises.

Remembering the sacrifice of the soldiers who turned around a desperate battlefield situation and won during a cold and snowy period in late 1944 is a great way to remember the military veterans of World War II.

With the onset of World War II, it became common to have quick, informal weddings that were often planned just a few days in advance, since the men who were fighting in the war only had short periods of leaWar II, it became common to have quick, informal weddings that were often planned just a few days in advance, since the men who were fighting in the war only had short periods of leawar only had short periods of leave.

«I really enjoyed this fast - paced novel that focuses on strong but flawed female protagonists set in two different time periods: World War I and post-World War II,» says «pricing geek» Casey Brown.

Its conglomerate period began in 1945, after World War II, when the company expanded its plastics business and became, over time, a major player in jet engines, nuclear reactors, computers, missiles, satellites, and other widely diverse businesses.

Titled Still renovating: A history of Canadian social housing policy, it's published by McGill - Queen's University Press and covers the period from the end of World War II to 2013.

That makes it the second longest such streak since World War II, trailing only the period from 1990 to 1997 that went longer without experiencing a double digit loss.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

Since the late nineteenth century, however, except perhaps for a brief period before and after World War II, this is no longer the case, and we should not allow this hidden assumption to determine our explanations of trade imbalances.

Interestingly enough, since World War II, this was the longest period it has taken an investor to recover their original investment in the stock market (5 years and 8 months to be exact).

This change is needed because we are in a period of history that is undergoing the most significant change in buyer behaviors since the end of the Second World War.

Black Tuesday signaled the end of a period of post-World War I economic expansion and the beginning of the Great Depression, which lasted until the beginning of World War II.

Government debt is already approaching 106 percent of GDP, a record high with the exception of a brief period during World War II.

Very impressive when you consider that this period contained both the Great Depression and the Second World War.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

Taken to refer to the history of ideas, they seem to name the periods before, during, and after the Enlightenment; but taken to refer to the history of events, they seem to name the period from creation to the rise of science, the period from the rise of science until World War II, and the period since the wWar II, and the period since the warwar.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

For Milosz this was not an insight arrived at late in life; the Treatise presents us with the mature version of what we already saw in the poetry he was writing during the darkest period of the Second World War: «Gentle verses written in the midst of horror declare themselves for life.»

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

Subsequent chapters take up the relation between values and suffering in early Christian times, in the enlightened eighteenth century, in the Romantic and Victorian periods, in the Europe of both world wars, and in America.

Beyond that simple fact, recognition of the totalitarian syndrome of the communist system did not take place during the wartime period when the book was being written; such recognition came about after the Second World War was long over.

All of which must be considered a sadness, for it was the mainline that provided moral - cultural ballast to the American democratic experiment from the colonial period through World War II.

One of the journal's more interesting features during this pre - World War I period was a column called «Modern Womanhood» written by the Century's first female editor, Ida Withers Harrison.

This was the period of the Balkan Wars and the invasion of Tripoli by Italy, before the first World War.

The Catholic community in Britain emerged from the Second World War more self - confident and determined to learn more of its own origins in the period following the Protestant Reformation.

In World War II some men who had trouble with alcohol before and after had little trouble during their period of service because they found a security in the authoritarian army structure.

The Century published a great many articles by Reinhold Niebuhr over a period of some 15 years, until Christianity and Crisis was launched by Niebuhr and associates at about the time America became involved in World War II.

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

«A World War II veteran, he assumed the role of Archbishop during one of our city's most difficult periods, just on the heels of Hurricane Betsy.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United StWorld War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United Stworld, the United States.

From the colonial period through World War I, few doubted that this country held a special place in God's favor.

So, for example, when the declinist argues that the United Slates» share of world exports has dropped from 27 percent to 20 percent, the anti-declinists counter that America's percentage of world GNP is roughly the same as it has been throughout the post-World War II period (approximately 24 percent).

Even if one limits one's attention to the period since World War II, one confronts a whole library of books and articles devoted to the discussion between West and East, including the output of numerous conferences, colloquia, official and unofficial commissions (such as those of the Vatican and the World Council of Churches).

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

There certainly were elements of what might almost be called forced conversion, especially in the period of the First World War and the years immediately after.

Even as our nation in the period preceding the present war had great power and influence within the world, so church members had great influence within the nation.

Nevertheless, I shall use the label to characterize the period from the end of World War II to 1965.

Sorokin thought the period of World War II was such an upheaval, one which marked the end of a sensate cycle and presaged the dawning of a new ideational phase.

Niebuhr's robust health began to fade in the period after World War II.

In the period after World War II, the situation has been reversed.

You can find our results for the United States in the period after World War II in an appendix in the book I wrote with Herman Daly.

I think it is possible to discern the beginnings of a fourth period in some works published since the first world war.

For over two hundred years» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decades).

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

were at least as subtle, coherent and devoutly held as anything homegrown, and those who did not learn from World War II and the decolonial period not to identify cultural - linguistic traditions with Christianity, are learning from contemporary cross-cultural exposures that many things thought to be unique are in fact quite common.

The president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freWorld War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freworld, as an exemplary time of freedom.

Most young adults today do not have the same kind of life choices available to them that were available in the period of economic expansion after the Second World War.

In the period between the two World Wars, a Scottish Home rule movement was established and in 1934 the Scottish National Party was born, but it was only in the last thirty years that the appetite for political autonomy grew to the point where a devolved Parliament was created in 1998 and met for the first time the following year.