Sentences with phrase «by civil war»

However, these beautiful locations have been devastated by civil war.

If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.

Ravaged by civil war in the past and Kony's militant group still on the loose, I joined a group of students in building a school in the Paraa district along with teaching the pupils English, Music and Sexual Health.

This means the U.S. reached the goal set by President Barack Obama last year, as he committed to resettling Syrians displaced by the civil war in Syria — one of the worst ongoing wars in modern history.

«In a situation like Syria, plagued by civil war and lacking a functional government with which policymakers can negotiate, how can the United States best protect those fleeing oppression — religious or otherwise?

New York's other senator, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, spoke at the inauguration itself, quoting at length from a letter by a Civil War soldier.

The executive order tosses a grenade into efforts to find safe havens in the United States for scholars displaced by the civil war in Syria and simmering conflicts in Iraq and Yemen.

Rawlins was founded by Civil War General John A. Rawlins in 1882 and oil drove the local economy for much of its early history.

Solskjaer, in January, walked into a club riven by a civil war from which the reverberations were still being felt in last month's Malky Mackay affair.

The correspondence, published in 1994, is the «only known collection of letters by a Civil War woman soldier,» accoring to The Washington Post.

Because of that, we were able to go to college without thinking twice about whether our education might be interrupted by civil war, and we could choose our career path from several options.

The cathedral's former dean explained to USA Today, that they were first installed in the early «50s to «foster reconciliation between parts of the nation that had been divided by the Civil War,» but today, «there is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community.»

But they were nevertheless part of the grim yet creative application of technology to the challenges and opportunities created by the Civil War.

In a country that had been wracked by civil war for many years, Valdas» inauguration brought renewed hope for peace and economic prosperity to the Lithuanian people.

Rawlins was founded by Civil War General John A. Rawlins in 1882 and oil drove the local economy for much of its early history.

Before I left for El Salvador, people had warned me that all the historic sites had been ruined by civil war and volcanoes, but that's simply not true.

Inspired by Civil War reenactments, recent performances have combined art and social activism to stage modern - day musters (rallies), asking uniformed participants, «What are you fighting for?»

The best analysis of the Greenbacks by a Civil War contemporary was written by a Canadian - American astronomer, Simon Newcomb.

In the second part — on our history's major constitutional disputes — the book reaches its dramatic climax: an expertly told story of the constitutional transformations wrought by the Civil War.

Had the matter not finally been settled by the Civil War and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, this pressure might well have resulted in a gradual dismantling of Dred Scott.

In many cases, the miseries of these underclass nations are envenomed by civil war and frontier disputes among themselves.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Thus is democratic deliberation replaced by civil war.

The world, Rieff says, has become too complex and violent, The ideological and ethnic conflicts that seem to demand humanitarian intervention are precisely the kinds of conflict that are most intractable, brutal and likely to be accompanied by civil wars and pervasive political instability Even with the best of intentions, humanitarian intervention can not create civil, social and political stability.

Darasalem (2000) Dir: Issa Serge CoeloInspired by the civil war in Chad, the film follows two childhood friends who join rebels in the countryside to find justice for their compatriots.6.

«If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.»

Labour has been seized by civil war since Britain voted to leave the EU, with MPs convinced Mr Corbyn would be trounced at a general election seeking to topple him.

Following a bloody civil war, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan after a referendum, an independence which is widely recognised but which was followed by another civil war.

It is much riskier in malnourished people, as is common in Yemen, where hunger has compounded the miseries caused by the civil war.

A century ago, astronomers called those galaxies «island universes,» a term introduced by Civil War general Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel.

Many Serbians see the new academy as part of a campaign for increased Bosniak political power in a region long troubled by civil wars and divided along ethnic and religious lines.

Today, Yemen is racked by civil war and Islamic extremists who, in a campaign against heresy, have destroyed ancient mosques in the port city of Aden, and a multidomed shrine in the Hadhramaut region.

Huda Zoghbi's first semester of medical school at the American University in Beirut was shattered by civil war.

Along the way, issues of religiosity, the male ego, the lingering rifts left by the Civil War, gun culture, and the cost and reward of vengeance hover there on the periphery of a passel of great supporting performances bolstering an absolutely dead - on turn by newcomer Steinfeld equal parts prim and game.

The letter is one of a collection of handwritten letters penned by Civil War soldiers that chronicle their experiences in battle and the hardships they faced from 1861 through 1865.

Listening to acoustic tracks by The Civil Wars, I could hear the individual vibrations of guitar strings, clear from attack to sustain.

An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens.

Neverhome By Laird Hunt Little, Brown • $ 16 • ISBN 9780316370165 Narrated by a Civil War soldier who calls herself «Ash Thompson» to disguise her true identity, Hunt's widely praised novel gives palpable life to historical accounts of women on both sides who risked everything to take up arms.

The author uses quotes from wildly varying sources such as Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, by Elizabeth Keckley; private letters written by Civil War soldiers to their families; newspaper accounts of events; and even quotes from watchman Jack Manders from the Oak Hill Cemetery logbook, taken from the night of February 25, 1862, when Abe Lincoln visited his son's body.

As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together.

Fresh off the conclusion to his brilliant run on Guardians of the Galaxy, writer Brian Michael Bendis switches settings from the stars to the streets in Defenders # 1, joined by his Civil War II and Ultimate Comics Spider - Man collaborator, David Marquez.

Interview (starts at 20:19)-- Anthropologist Guven Witteveen last year helped the Paine - Gillam - Scott Museum in St. John, Michigan, create a Kindle eBook titled Civil War Memories on Foot and by Horse, 1862 - 1866, by Civil War veteran Francis W. Redfern.

Chajul is one of the most affected regions in Guatemala by Civil War and now days they enjoy the freedom since 1996.