Sentences with phrase «by the civil war in»

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.

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.

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.

One of the most important artists from the Middle East, Raad says his work «was in some ways made possible by the civil wars in Lebanon».

Not exact matches

China sent weapons to 9 sub-Saharan countries and was the only one in the top three to send arms to South Sudan, a country whose oil industry and international standing are both threatened by an ongoing civil war.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Tuesday, Time Inc.'s chief content officer and Fortune president Alan Murray tried to write the famous Civil War speech by memory while being interviewed on the phone by Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

Many other cities in Syria are held by rebels or other factions in the civil war, and they are likely to come under further attack, said aid agencies.

Planned removal of a statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee sparked protests by white supremacists, which in turn inspired counter protests.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

He has reported from more than 15 countries in the region, a journey that took him through Egypt's revolution and counterrevolution, civil war in Syria and assaults in Iraq launched by Islamic State militants.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

The debt, incurred during Angola's long civil war, was cut to $ 1.5 billion in a deal partly negotiated by Arcadi Gaydamak, a Russian - born businessman.

The principal matter separating Israel and the United States continues to be Iran's growing presence in Syria, an enemy state lying along Israel's northern border, that has been riven by a bloody civil war for seven years.

All we can ask is for our governments and security agencies is to deal with them judiciously — say, by not appointing a foreign minister with strong historical family ties to a foreign government supported by fascist sympathizers engaged in a civil war with their fellow citizens.

In the United States before the Civil War, the vast majority of paper currency was issued by private state - chartered banks.

While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

a neo-classical version created by Abraham Lincoln, who in the Civil War «re-baptized the United States a teleocracy, a nation governed by its pursuit of an abstract idea, a nation with a purpose - driven life»;

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

Reality check: The household codes have been debated by American Christians before, but it wasn't in the context of disagreements regarding gender; it was in the context of disagreements regarding slavery in the buildup to the Civil War.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

The Civil War as Theological Crisis by Mark Noll: This book is a stunning eye - opener that details the religious - based arguments for and against slavery in the buildup to the U.S. Civil War.

And in a final, terrible irony, the Syrian civil war has bled into Iraq — with swaths of Iraq now, once again, occupied by the successors of al - Qaeda - in - Iraq.

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry holt, 352 pages, $ 30 A nnihilating a civilization that has withstood more famines, invasions, peasant revolts, civil wars, and tyrants than historians can keep straight takes work.

Of special interest are statements by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore on Catholic understandings of the American constitutional order, and several documents from the hand of Bishop («Dagger John») Hughes of New York on sundry questions, including an illuminating exchange with Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston on the justice of the Union cause in the Civil War.

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 Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millionIn Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millionin five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millions.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

In American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil WaIn American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil Wain the Civil War.

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

If we tally up the amount of deaths caused by the U.S alone in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish American War, WW.1, WW.2, Kore.an War, Vietnam War, both Iraq Wars, and Afghanistan, I doubt there are many countries on this planet, secular or otherwise that can compete with them.

In George McKenna's review of While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (December 2001), he neglects to lay the least bit of blame for the Civil War on the heightened sense of self «righteousness instilled in both the North and the South by their respective churcheIn George McKenna's review of While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (December 2001), he neglects to lay the least bit of blame for the Civil War on the heightened sense of self «righteousness instilled in both the North and the South by their respective churchein both the North and the South by their respective churches.

«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?

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll University of North Carolina Press, 216 pages, $ 29.95 Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout Viking, 576 pages, $ 29.95 Nothing in American history» not the Revolution, not the Second World....

Reviewed by George McKenna In the preface to While God Is Marching On, Steven E. Woodworth, an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, recalls that Ken and Ric Burns» 1990 documentary on the Civil War quoted freely from the letters of Civil War soldiers without revealing....

In raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violencIn raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violencin defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violence.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legaWar — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legawar cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

My thesis is that Protestants in the United States are not yet fully aware of the extent to which the changing family affects the life of a congregation because our theologies, ministries, and traditions are influenced by a worldview that coalesced before the Civil War.

The fact that the society in Medina, which had been divided and eaten by hatred and civil war for dozens of years, became overnight a united group of intimate friends — a sudden change of mind which could not have been accomplished by earthly forces (Surah III, 103; VIII, 63).

The Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King along with the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations created social upheaval in America.

In «For the Union Dead,» a savage, beautiful poem inspired by the statue erected for Colonel Shaw on the Boston Common, he explains why he admired this Civil War commander of a black regiment:

By the end of the Civil War, nearly every adult male in the country had been trained in the use of guns.

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.