Sentences with phrase «century war with»

We are fighting a 21st century war with 19th century weapons.

Not exact matches

This time, gamers will play with new assassin (not named Prince Akeem) of Native American and English heritage during America's late 18th century Revolutionary War.

The series is based on the life of the drug lord himself, though the trailer — with images ranging from a turn - of - the - century bandit to Richard Nixon to Guzmán himself — suggests it may touch on the history of the war on drugs that has bound the US and Mexico in an often uneasy and frequently bloody relationship.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

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«Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries... if the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that's what every trade war ultimately does,» Sen. Ben Sasse (R - NE) told Politico's Burgess Everett.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).

On one occasion, following a war with France in the late 18th century, it suspended payment for 24 years.

And in that tack of semantics, of loving God above all things, of obeying him and blindly doing his will, we will continue to discriminate and to fight holy wars and to hear men with two faces tell us that they are His middlemen and to pander for politicians and to condemn science, which is merely the study of His design, as we have for centuries.

Most of the war death in the 20th century was caused by nationalism, with a few other factors in the mix — greed, pride, alliances, border disputes, racial prejudice and so on.

Peace was won with a lopsided treaty that infuriated the Chinese, especially in the context of the concessions already imposed after the nineteenth century's Opium Wars.

Before the nineteenth century, poverty was generally thought of as a destiny, a fate, one of the great scourges of mankind, along with famine, wild beasts, epidemics, war, earthquakes.

17th century thinkers like John Locke saw the horrors that organized religion brought on the world with the Thirty Years War.

During the social and political turmoil of the centuries following Alexander's death — in which his empire was dismembered, the «members» seemed continuously to war with one another, and then were largely absorbed into Rome's growing empire — the practice of paideia continued to be the dominant force shaping the educated classes.

Such aims might appear paradoxical to those who were taught that the emergence in the 17th century of secular liberalism, with its privatization of faith, rescued the West from «wars of religion.»

During the war itself the Churches faced a problem that accompanied them until the present day — what were they to do with the Negroes who had been so unjustly treated for almost two centuries?

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

Proposals for transcending the nation - state with a world government have been around for centuries, and gained many adherents following the catastrophic breakup of the world system in World War I.

A systematic just war theory came only some time later, beginning with Gratian's Decretum in the middle of the twelfth century, maturing through the work of two generations of successors, the Decretists and the Decretalists, and taking theological form in the work of Thomas Aquinas and others in the latter part of the thirteenth century.

Work which has been done during the present century, and particularly since the War, has provided us with fresh standpoints, and with fresh illustrative material.

It is a long way from the gospel of Jesus in Galilee to the Gospel of John in the Hellenistic setting of early second century Christianity, at war on all fronts with an unbelieving world and not least with «the Jews,» who are now viewed as implacable and inveterate foes.

Each summer my family would arrive in Oxford for tea with our elderly Aunt Mary, who habitually relished every opportunity she could find to remind my siblings and me that down the centuries religion has done nothing but cause wars and oppress people in the name of God.

From the extermination of the Cathars in the thirteenth century, which brought wholesale slaughter to southern France, to the Thirty Years» War four centuries later, which devastated entire regions of Europe, Christian piety often existed side by side with nonstop brutality.

In light of the Century's belief in human progress, it makes sense that editors would choose to use the term «relapse» to describe the unspeakable «evil» associated with the war.

The celebrated «greatest generation» of World War II produced the architects of Cold War «containment,» who were vindicated almost a half century later with the end of «the evil empire.»

With the death of Josiah, holy war came to an end, but the holy war ideal continued to occupy and stimulate Israel for centuries.

Seeming historical allusions have been variously identified with events in the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Persian period down through the Maccabean Wars of the second century B.C. Happily, since the major thrust of Isaiah 24 - 27 is apocalyptic, the matter of date is not crucial.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

I don't think the dressers have been happy since we were allowed to discover what manner of clothes she was wearing and throughout the past 5 centuries it's been a tug of war with her undies.

He argues that «gun ownership was exceptional in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, even on the frontier, and that guns became a common commodity only with the industrialization of the mid-nineteenth century» and the militarization of America during the Civil War.

It is part of the folklore of 20th - century theology that, with the outbreak of World War I, Barth became disillusioned with his own theological liberalism.

The Shaker Society in 19th century America also combined rejection of violence and war with the affirmation of women's equality.

The wars of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries devastated the social and political fabric of Europe, and nobody should want to flirt with a repeat of that tragic experience.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

The effect of denominational size, we know from other research, can be linked in turn to the effect of immigration to the United States, to competition among denominations and between Protestants and Catholics for members, and to the so - called «baby boom» that followed World War IL In other words, in the United States, sectarianism has been associated with demographic expansion in the world system, just as it appears to have been in Europe in earlier centuries.

In an age when nations are fragmenting» with some thirty «five civil wars underway over the face of the globe and cultural hatreds dormant sometimes for centuries now reawakening» Hungary seems to display a truly remarkable degree of cosmopolitan tolerance.

Eager to wage war against society's failure to care for the helpless, the Century had been restless with Barth's insistence that the church's prime responsibility was to open itself to God's mysterious transcendence.

The conclusion is inescapable that there was in general a twofold origin of the church, with two centers in Palestine from the lifetime of Jesus down at least to the war under Hadrian, in Galilee, and down to the war under Nero and later, in Judea — and then on into the following centuries, when successive conquest and exodus scattered the little Christian communities far and wide, down to the Mohammedan conquest in the seventh century, and even to this day.

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.

There is nothing to compare with it in Egyptian or Babylonian literature, and in Greek literature, even a great anti-war drama, such as Euripides» «Trojan Women» — first performed in 415 B.C. — issues in no such positive demand for war's elimination as the Hebrews reached centuries before.

France was lacerated by the wars of religion leading to an apparent victory of Catholicism, but it experienced a great popular reformation in the eighteenth century with the Enlightenment, Voltairianism and the Encyclopaedia.

Similarly, near the start of this century, Berry had challenged the left with his essay «The Failure of War,» offering stirring words about the humanity of an unborn «baby» — whom he called «an innocent fellow human,» not «an enemy - in - the - womb.»

However, since the end of World War II and the emergence on the world's political scene of the State of Israel, «anti-Semitism» has often been used with reference to one's stance vis - à - vis this 20th century nation, and thus has acquired quite new shades of meaning.

The nineteenth century, beginning in 1815 with the close of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon and terminated in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I, saw the heyday of Western imperialism and colonialism.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

They were conscious of their great Islamic prestige during all these centuries and developed gradually an Islamic policy which came to an end only with the dissolution of the empire at the end of the first World War.

Secondly, the turn of the century witnessed the rise of abstract art and, after World War I, the poetic experiments of the surrealists, both of which served to familiarize the educated public with the non-figurative and dream worlds.