Sentences with phrase «about war time»

Twice a year I complain about War Time, the Daylight Saving Time developed in the First World War to save coal and keep people working in the factories longer.

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She told me about her ancestors at the time of the Civil War.

The president then explained that he and his advisors spent «days and weeks» worth of time meeting about Syria and trying to find a way to ease the suffering and end the civil war.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

Still, it's worth taking this time to look at Thiel's rise to fame in the tech capital of the world — a saga that includes his effort to stop aging and death, his controversial thoughts about college, and his war with the media:

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

Some, however, had an interest in history or some time to kill and ended up following me around the 17th - century building while I rattled off facts about the portraits and the Civil War - era bullet holes.

The three - martini power lunch ended about the same time as the Cold War.

Did she admit that the Times doesn't care about poor people, or that the Iraq War was justified?

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

In the early 1950s at the time of the Korean War, the terms of trade rose by about 50 per cent in a single year as wool prices soared.

But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns about the impact a trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.

«He talked about the good old days, when we had to ship in pizza and it didn't feel like we were working around the clock, about times of war and times of peace.»

One article said the Republicans mastered «post truth politics» when they realized their rhetoric doesn't have to bear any relation to their policy agenda so they talk about cutting the deficit while at the same time driving up the deficit by slashing taxes on the rich and launching unfunded wars.

They talk about an attack on religious teachings while speaking at an NRA event about how abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men, women, children, as well as innocent pregnant women with unborn babies.

By this time next year, Star Wars will be just about all anyone is talking about...

the world wars lasted how long?????? The only reason people make such a big deal about 9 - 11 is that it was the first time in history that brought something like this to our soil here at home and people were to weak in the mind to deal with it and it shattered their glass houses they live in.

I have mixed feelings about the whole «War on Christmas» battle that gets waged every year around this time.

In the midst of grave concern about nuclear war, world hunger and rising racism, are we justified in giving so much time and effort to suicide?

But Cage's kind of simplification is what Jose Ortega y Gasset was writing about between the world wars in Man and Crisis at a time when Europe as well as America was experiencing the events that turned out be prologue to the coming counterculture of the sixties.

Why don't you quit wasting time with your private flame war and contribute something that shows you can be more than just an angry fool when provoked by somebody you don't even care about.

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.

On the post about the drawings you said «God has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, destruction, murder, violence, oppression, retribution, vengeance, hate, or conditional acceptance.»

Home from the War raises profound questions about the meaning of mental health and psychotherapy in our time.

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

I think it is time to start talking about the war on children.

Without the «Cold War» many in the military who support Paul think that there is no need to waste time in backwaters like Iraq and Afghanistan, as many thought about in Vietnam back in the day.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Take the time to worry about the priests that are sodomizing boys, the wars Christianity starts, the hypocrisy of the church and so many other issues.

Jesus keeps it simple plus we can avoid judgments and speculation about biblical accounts of war, slavery etc. that related to a specific nomadic tribal people or at a minimum require taking into account a people, time and place some say never existed.

In their editorial «In a Time of War» (December 2001), the editors of First Things declare: «One matter that has been muddied in recent decades should now be clarified: Those who in principle oppose the use of military force have no legitimate part in the discussion about how military force should be used.»

We need to say to ourselves cold - bloodedly that if we do not rise to the demand of our time for a wider justice and a more stable world order, there is the real possibility that what will be left of humanity will be a few crazed survivors stumbling and mumbling about in the radioactive ruins left by the atomic war.

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time when once again we are seeking a new understanding of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our sense of order, and our self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

The story is true to history, of course, in that former President Nixon declared political and even legal war against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam Wwar against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam WarWar.

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

When is the last time you ever heard of a group of atheists getting together to start a war or bother anybody about anything?

Smithsonian, this is where you are wrong, the book of remembrance, the so called OT, is not a religion, YHWH is not of religion, or Daniel's vision would not have prophesied just what is going on in this time of false religions, and false governments, and those like yourself are suppose to mislead the people this is what this whole spiritual war, of His enemies in Pslams 83, and in Exodus 17:14 - 17, from generation, to generation, it is about the lies of the leaders against YHWH, who has been told, and warned by YHWH, that your knowledge has deceived you, in Isaiah 47, O, daughter of Babylon.

There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did Egypt.

And his claims about America as a nation addicted to the sacrificial system of killing and dying that is war, as ìneedingî September 11 and the wars that followed to sustain its identity, are at times offensive in the extreme.

But as those 144,000 powerful Jewish missionaries travel about the earth, and as they face persecution, famine, danger, nakedness and sword, it will be just like the times of World War II, when people had to choose whether they would help the Jewish people or turn their back upon them.

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?

So many times our two cultures worked together in peace for the benfit of both, in addition to the wars of Jihads and Crusades, that we always seem to hear about so much more.

We should all do ourselves a favor and help one anther stop listening to others tell us to fight wars and kill kiil kill that is not living life humans are easily brain washed and talked into things that end up hurting them I have seen this happen all the time he hurt our own loved ones sometimes because someone told us its what we have to do that is not living life do nt let someone tell you that you mean nothing because you mean a whole lot to someone but mostly you should mean a whole lot to yourself most of all that is the only way that you can take how you feel about yourself and pass that amazing feeling onto others and that is really all you need to know about life its there to enjoy treat yourself and others well live life live it well

The Pax Romana, which was established under Augustus and which for about two centuries, with the exception of some severe, localized rebellions, banished war to the borders of the realm, was of great advantage to the expansion of a faith whose spirit flourishes best in time of peace.

Sounds like Todd is lifting the lid off suppression and opression... it's about time, the hypocracy, as in pedo priests, is styfulling... religion is a good mask for war... just look at history.