Sentences with phrase «years war which»

It loosely retells the story of The Hundred Years war which took place between the kingdoms of England and France way back in the 14th and 15th century.
So with that said, the game is based on the 2007 title from Koei Tecmo, Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War which has received a slight next - gen facelift with the inclusion of a new mode called Nightmare which introduces new elements that were not found on the PlayStation 3 version.
Taking a leaf out of the history books plus lots of artistic liberty, Bladestorm Nightmare focuses on the war between England and France called the Hundred Years War which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and Valois.
Europe went through the Hundred Years War which was driven by religious differences and they never want to see religion in the public square again.

Not exact matches

Club president Josep Sunyol, a militant pro-independence Catalan, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, and is now memorialized in the club's museum, which draws about 2 million tourists a year.
World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial wWar I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial warwar.
One of the most important social trends since World War II is the percentage of working age women in the workforce, which has doubled in the last 50 years.
The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.
There is a bit of a turf war brewing between Budweiser brewer Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) and a tiny California craft brewer named She Beverage Co., which last year registered «The Queen of Beer» phrase and began to launch sales at retailers and restaurants in April.
As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.
Praljak was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, nearly half of which had already been served after he surrendered to the tribunal in 2004.
That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.
The signing of the historic agreement this week opens an exciting new chapter for mineral rich Bougainville, which saw its riches turn to rags during a 10 - year civil war ending in 1998.
That key intuition comes from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard University, who've been studying the matter for years trying to bring some method to the madness of accounting for the budgetary and broader economic costs of war (which remains, by their own admission, a bit of an educated guess).
Though he acknowledged that the U.S. «has some serious trade issues with China, which have grown over the years,» including not just tariffs but also alleged Chinese cybersecurity breaches and intellectual property violations of American companies, the CEO said those problems do not necessitate a trade war.
About three years of civil war followed, after which the Bolsheviks came out on top and took over the country.
The realm, which Doctor Strange briefly visited in his 2016 movie, may come into play in next year's «Infinity War» sequel.
Most of them came out within the year, like «Warcraft» and «Suicide Squad,» though there were two 2015 releases on the list: «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» which came in fourth place, and «The Revenant,» which was in tenth.
While it doesn't tell us anything about the aftermath of «Infinity War,» there are some clues hinting at a new hero and more about the Quantum Realm which will almost definitely come into play in next year's superhero sequel.
After World War II, which is the only example I know of, it wasn't until like 1950 where they let 10 - year bond rates go.
'' «Infinity War» has the added benefit of being promised as a semi-finale to 10 years» worth of franchise building, which could elevate its box - office performance even higher than previous Marvel sequels,» said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.
As Thompson explains, tulips in fact were becoming more popular, particularly in Germany, and, as the first phase of the 30 Years War wound down, it looked like Germany would be victorious, which would mean a better market for tulips.
Paltrow was the Weinsteins» It Girl back in 1995, right after Se7en put her on the map and just before The Pallbearer and Emma — the latter earning her the top - billing spot two years later in Miramax's first Best Picture - winner, Shakespeare in Love, beating Steven Spielberg's war epic, Saving Private Ryan, which, to this day, is still a shock.
The dynamics of the debt money system, the phenomenon of capital consumption (which we believe is an «under - reported» major economic problem — although not on this web site, to be sure), the war on cash, and the rise of Bitcoin all have dedicated chapters in this year's report.
In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.
Published after World War II, it states charges as a percentage of transaction costs in terms appropriate to 1947, but which, 55 inflationary years later, mean that all housing work had moved to the top of the scale.
The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the biggest increase in public spending since the Second World War.
The War on Gold, which has raged for 37 + years, has generated more than $ 1 trillion in criminal profits for the Deep State plunderers, while costing the worldwide owners of physical gold multiple trillions of dollars.
BC Iron has signed an agreement with Clive Palmer's Mineralogy which will tie it to a similar royalty agreement to the one Mineralogy and China's Citic have been warring over for years.
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.
We then win multiple wars in which we were attacked first and are forced to give back more than half of the rightly won land, no other country has been forced to give back land it has won in over 2000 years.
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
Dr Williams, who is Chairman of Christian Aid which is providing humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, said: «The recent escalation of violent conflict in Juba since July 7 has caused yet more appalling suffering for the people of South Sudan who have over the past two and a half years endured the terrible consequences of a return to war and the bitter disappointment of hopes denied or deferred.
And yet they can not seem to eclipse, in the public mind, a morally ambivalent war that ended seventy - three years ago, which was fought with the utmost ruthlessness, and one of whose victors was an appalling despotism of lies and murder.
James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.
I also did not say that America was Isolationist — there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the time opposed).
You have a valid complaint, for throughout history, man has been at war with his fellow man, in which Solomon wrote some 3,000 years ago, «that man has dominated man to his injury.»
For example, it includes about 20 percent of the 4 million people killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's civil war, which significantly skews the 10 - year average that the number represents.
Let's see, The number of the devil is 666 It is the Jewish Year 5777 It is a Golden Jubilee, 50 years ago was the 6 day war, 50 years before that was the Balfour Decision which set aside land for the Jews.
It's an interesting coincidence that the Reformation, which brought the whole of Europe into civil war and lead to mass migration happened a mere 25 years after Columbus «discovered» America.
«Low intensity conflict is an economical option which we must, as a result of Vietnam, recognize as a legitimate form of conflict at least for the next twenty years, stated a former U.S. Army officer and veteran of the war in Southeast Asia.
Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence — together with all the words that circulated anxiously during the parlous years under the Confederation Congress — which rose to a great flood in the period 1787 to 1790 in....
And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.
The Arabs completed the conquest of the Levant within a few years of the death of the Prophet, their surprising success made possible by the inspiration of their new faith which filled their souls with confidence, and by the decline of the power of Persia and Byzantium as a result of their perpetual wars against each other.
The Archbishop of Manila has called for an end to the «waste of human lives» following a brutal week in President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in which dozens were killed including a 17 year old boy.
This week marks the sixth year of the Syrian civil war which began when the Syrian people started denouncing President Bashar al - Assad's government.
= > nonsense as atheism has resulted in the deaths of over 50 million in the last century alone, and it has been shown that «religion» (that's all religions) have only been responsible for 7 % of ALL wars to date (which would mean approximately 25 million in the past 2000 years)
Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.
The jihadists, instead, are sustained by faith in the will of God by which their victory may be long delayed — they speak of a war of two hundred years — but is absolutely certain.
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