Sentences with phrase «better than war»

This month's issue includes «Global Standards «Impossibly Cumbersome»», a critical look at the efforts of the International Mediation Institute to establish a global mediator competency certification system; «Law - Law better than War - War?»

To fuel this fire, I like Bridge of Spies quite a bit; better than War Horse, but not more than Munich, in my opinion.

Diplomacy is better than war, because fewer people die, and less is destroyed.

He asks Cameron whether Syria crisis shows that «jaw jaw is better than war war»?

They say that jaw jaw, is better than war, war.

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.

Not exact matches

It's better to jaw - jaw than war - war, as Winston Churchill liked to say.

The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

New prime minister Malcolm Turnbull brings with him a better working knowledge of how Western Australia functions than any of his predecessors since the days of war time PM John Curtin, who died in 1945.

There was no better way to release the upcoming Star Wars movie than in a 360 VR fly - through experience.

He will argue that seeking «peaceful solutions» is a better way of protecting Britain than «the kind of unilateral wars and interventions that have almost become routine in recent times».

With «HDR» lighting (high - dynamic range) being employed by upcoming games like «Gears of War 4» and «Scalebound,» the Xbox One S is capable of making games look better than ever.

So for now, we're still in the bluff and bluster phase; technically speaking, the current conflict is better described as a war of words than a trade war.

If the objective is to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and avoid the outbreak of war, high - profile military exercises and additional deployments may do more harm than good.

«The Hateful Eight» is really about America trying to put together its pieces after the Civil War, and there are few better places to show that than in the wide - open frontier.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

Thiel stated during the campaign that Trump offered a better hope of peace than Hillary Clinton, but Trump's closest adviser has said he expects to go to war with nuclear - armed China within a decade and envisions a civilizational clash with the entire Muslim world as well.

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.

«I think that everybody agrees, except the lawyers, that it's in everyone's best interest to settle in advance than go to war,» says Jonathan Feldman, partner with Goodmans LLP in Toronto.

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But if Mr. Legere's previous commitment to a mobile price war is an indicator, consumers may end up better off with this deal than without it.

The author pointed out that big countries are at most risk from a trade war (so focus on smaller ones), big companies are most subject to regulatory / antitrust actions (so go small), and regional opportunities are better than global ones.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

However, what better way is there to avert a deleterious trade war than to resolve issues by putting them in writing and signing the document for all the world to see?

But among them, the Saudis and smaller Gulf states have more than enough cash stashed in reserves, as well as sovereign wealth funds — at least $ 3 - trillion in various funds they can tap — to wage this price war for years.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

And though Trump may have claimed that trade wars are «good, and easy to win,» a much bigger share of US exports stands to be affected than vice versa.

Those who make the latter choice, argues Horton, are likely to produce better results also in terms of cultural change than are Christians who take the culture wars as their primary task.

Of course, when it comes to persecution, nobody does it better than the Christians what with their inquisitions, holocausts, crusades and innumerable religious wars.

Dick, Spotnitz tells us, had found a truth that mattered more than the question of who really won the war — the truth that we would not have behaved well in defeat.

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism brings together in a little more than two hundred pages a treasure of information and perspectives on what may well be the defining conflict of the twenty - first century.

They condoned slavery, they stoned people to death (if you think that is better than slavery you should read up on it), they fought wars, and committed atrocities.

Peace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each other as you saw more hate among them than it is love and more wars among them than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy causes..

I am open to the possibility of their being an omnipotent super being (if for no other reason than because I can't prove there isn't one) however, if one were to present him or herself to me I think I'd have a hard time respecting this omnipotent being that has had the power to prevent wars, protect the innocent, and create a better life for all, but chooses not to.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

After so many wars, I think it is more up to the Arab nations to try and be the good guys than make Israel bend over backwards to them.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

More than half of Americans (53 %) said that not accepting refugees would be the best approach the US could take regarding those fleeing civil war in Syria, according to a poll Bloomberg conducted from November 16 — 17 of 628 Americans.

In these days of Enron, Martha Stewart and wars waged on behalf of phantom weapons, we know better than to defend dishonesty.

Believing that the world is what it looks like is crazy, believing that there is an invisible man who runs every last corner of the universe but has nothing better to do than be your personal buddy while war and cancer and torture and child abuse go on and on and on, that's sane?

A United Nations Peace Keeping Force to monitor a cease - fire is better than a civil war, but the members of that U.N. Force may have to shoot in self - defense.

Keep loving your heritage and keep witnessing to others that there is a better way than a war torn, violent, wicked, socialist, new world order.

Then Gaddis adds, «In retrospect, though, it appears that Eisenhower's may have been the best mind available, for he understood better than his advisers what war is really like.»

Certainly, the GOP saw war as a better way to enrich their base than insuring the least among us.

Having said that, there have been wars waged between religions claiming «my imaginary friend (God) is better than yours»... I feel like as a reasonable person, I am above that, and I wont get into emotional responsiveness that can incite anger in others, leading to an unproductive discussion.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Bush's case for war in Iraq was much better than Obama's case for war in Syria.

We don't want our children to be good Nazis obeying without question; we want them to hate war more than we did, somehow to face up to the overwhelming forces in this period of history.