Sentences with phrase «about wars fought»

The parents of an Israeli soldier receive the knock on their door that no parent wants to receive in the opening of «Foxtrot,» a deeply profound drama about wars fought in the field and at home.

He decided to write a novel about them, as well, and in 2000, Bantam published Deep Sound Channel, a thriller about a war fought in the South Atlantic in 2011.

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Liu said President Xi Jinping was ready to fight back hard if U.S. counterpart Donald Trump wanted a trade war, said the person, who asked for anonymity to speak about confidential discussions.

The new armaments don't make the Stryker a fighting vehicle, but Meissel said the search for heaftier weapons stems from the reduction in manpower in Europe from 300,000 during the Cold War to about 30,000 now.

Other practitioners of the pop - expert model include Canadian academic Thomas Homer - Dixon, who predicted the world was about to be wracked by cross-border wars fought over basic resources such as water.

About 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them troops fighting Hezbollah, were killed in the 2006 war, which displaced a million people in Lebanon and up to 500,000 in Israel.

Mr. Kalanick has said that after the company entered China in 2013, Uber burned through about $ 2 billion in three years fighting a price war against the local ride - hailing incumbent, Didi Chuxing.

Personnel departments had their heyday in years following the Second World War, when companies were all about fighting to find the best workers, signing them up for the long term, developing their capabilities and promoting from within.

any idiot that brings up the crusades saying it was the christians has no clue about history the christians were fighting to take back land stolen by murder and war perpetrated by muslims and islam read a book idiot

No big deal for me, but I do worry about my fellow Americans who I have fought wars for, done public service for, and «care» about — because I am a christian and an American.

Let's look at these one by one: Murder: You know how God feels about Murder but in case you forgot please see below: EXD 20:13 Cheese, do you consider it Murder when Soldiers fight in a just war?

One sees this most clearly in Sword of Honour, his novel about one man's disillusionment while fighting World War II.

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

Use of the name Armageddon (Har — Magedon) can not mean that the war will be fought at a literal Mountain of Megiddo There is no literal Mountain of Megiddo; only a mound about 70 feet (21 m) high where ruins of ancient Megiddo are found.

Now, think about wars that are fought under the flag of Christianity, or Islam, or Judaism.

For while we argue about stroller brands and family size, millions of women are engaged in a different kind of mommy war, fighting with every decision of every day for the very survival and future of their children.

Lt. John Corbin fights his way through Armegedon Now: World War 3 a Christian comic about the end of days.

9:3 points out that this entire chapter is about a single event 9:4 clearly states that any non-Muslim who isn't currently at war with the Muslims during said event and those who have agreements with the Muslims are exempt 9:6 states that even among those that they were fighting, if any seeks protection from the Muslims they are to give it to them The rest of the chapter is a continuim of theological ideals and prounouncements.

TC look who's talking about lack of humility and maturity LOL, you should read your comments out loud so you can hear them, I don't call people names but you seem to be a radical religionist, like the muslims I fought in both wars.

This is B / S... they kill 3000 innocent people and we are supposed to care what these people think of us... Well all i have to say is if they wanted a war then they sure as hell got one... I honestly do nt care what they think about me, America, or anything for that matter... ill fight any extremist one on one and i guarantee ill knock every single one of them flat on their asses

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.

Finally, the difficulty pacifists of the messianic community have in trying to think in just war terms is further evident from Hauerwas and Sider's parting shot: to wit, if just war is compatible with the gospel, then why be sad about fighting a just war?

Wzrd1: The wars we are fighting now were never about seeking justice for the people who died on 9/11.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

You must have read about the wars and killings between Catholics and Protestants when there were only Two of them Christian branches but since then you became to have more than Two in branches and each claims to be on right path or true Church... this was noted from the words of fights i was able to read within several posts on these Religion blogs...

As much as it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about space.

He makes pointed use of sociological distinctions, noticing that in modern societies religion usually «is separated off in a distinct sphere» from politics; as a result, such societies do not fight wars about religion as such.

One of the things that put my son off Christianity was learning about all the wars that had been fought by Christians in His school history lessons.

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.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

The percentage of secularists willing to face the ugly truth about Islam will always be relatively low; too many of them are still engaged in fighting the last war, against the Christianity or orthodox Judaism of their parents.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Wait a minute, since you and your bigoted friends aren't really talking about taking away citizenship from our gay brothers and sisters (it would be a civil war if you tried, I'm not gay and I would fight against you), how could you take away any of their «God» given rights as a citizen, you know the same «God» given rights that you and your patriotic friends enjoy (I am assuming that you and everyone else that feels like you have served our great country in uniform just like me and my gay brothers and sister have done, are doing and will do).

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 President makes a declaration and the military follows it, will they send out questionnaires about which wars to fight or who should be promoted to General, I think not.

For supporter and opponent alike, the absurdity could be stated: If we're going to fight a war, then let's fight to win in the name of national honor, even if we don't know what it is we're fighting about.

The Bible has had wars fought over it because people feel very passionately about it.

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But if the war was about anything, it was about preserving a way of life, and that life included a game that suddenly seemed more worth fighting for than ever.

I suppose that those who prefer to refer to «historians» as opposed to acknowledging and observing the legacy from concrete, bricks and mortar bequeathed to them by those who fought in and won the Second World War also prefer to listen to the likes of Savage or Murphy, gibbering plundits who were presciently lampooned by the Super-Plundit himself: Alan Partdrige, about twenty years ago:

While we can talk in the abstract about «weapons» and «war,» focusing only on the logic of the argument, we often fail to begin from the correct assumptions about how war is presently fought.

In 2014 there were public complaints by the military hierarchy to President Goodluck Jonathan about the inadequacy of funds to fight the anti-terror war in the North East.

On that point, why should native Brits fight wars they may not care about started by politicians who don't care about them?

She enjoys teaching students about the contributions of the 200,000 black soldiers who fought valiantly during the Civil War.

The Lanes, now a labyrinth of tapas, fruity ciders and cerebral crockery, used to be the city's slum area and it was here we learnt about Harry Cowley the chimney sweep and social activist, who created the Brighton Vigilantes and fought the fascists, as well as helping to rehouse homeless people following the war.

These monuments, then, not only represented reverence for soldiers who fought in a war to defend slavery, they also made a very pointed statement about the rule of white supremacy: All who enter the courthouse are subject to the laws of white men.

But Corbyn's comments are part of a web of statements which raise questions about his commitment to fighting anti-Semitism and specifically to rooting out anti-semitism in the Stop the War elements of his party, which disproportionately support his leadership.

We've mused a lot on CapTon in recent weeks about why fight between public employee unions and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't risen to the same level of outright war that we're seeing out in Wisconsin.