Sentences with phrase «civil war deaths»

The Cost of War Students study a chart showing Civil War deaths and answer questions about the information.

For example, the CSGC considers about 20 pecent of the DRC civil war deaths to be martyrs, which heavily influences its tally (averaged over a decade).

Not exact matches

Ansi's reported death suggests the covert U.S. drone program against the Yemen branch of the global militant group is continuing, despite the evacuation of American military advisers from the country amid a worsening civil war.

«Especially in these days, may he sustain the efforts of all those actively engaged in bringing comfort and relief to the civil population in Syria, prey to a war that continues to sow horror and death.

Rank Death Toll Cause Centuries 1 63 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 40 million Genghis Khan 13C 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 15 million First World War 20C 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

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.

Do we blame Abraham Lincoln for the deaths of people who starved or died during the Civil War in the US?

And attribute all deaths killed in war, or civil strife on them and their lack of belief in gods.

Blaming deaths resulting from civil strive, civil war and bad policy at their feet?

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.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deaWar, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deawar once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

After the Civil War, a confluence of factors disrupted the established death rituals of American Christians.

On this 150th anniversary of the close of the Civil War, and of Lincoln's death, it is well to remember Lincoln's story and its lessons for our age.

Historian Richard Pipes has estimated that the Russian Civil War claimed two million combat deaths, two million deaths from epidemics, and five million deaths from famine.

The final death toll of the Russian Civil War exceeded the eight million deaths of World War I....

He was 30 at the time of his death and had risen to prominence as the Spanish Civil War began.

With death rates hovering around 1,000 persons annually, Nigeria has arguably been trapped in a low - intensity civil war for thirty years.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

Long civil wars lead to many more deaths (both military and civilian), wreck economies, and generate massive flows of refugees and internally displaced persons.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

«We are going to the courts,» said Savimbi, son of the UNITA founder Jonas Savimbi, whose death in 2002 during the civil war against Dos Santos's forces paved the way for a ceasefire after 27 years of fighting.

Schumer quoted at length from a letter Union Army officer Sullivan Ballou penned to his wife during the Civil War, a week before his death at Bull Run.

The crisis in Northern Ireland which had caused so much terrorism and death was resolved essentially based on devolution of power to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the wars and division of Yugoslavia could have been prevented by a federal system of government; the Nigerian civil war could have been prevented by the Aburi Accord, which was based on federal or con - federal prescriptions; perhaps the break - up of the USSR could have been prevented by giving greater power and autonomy to the Soviet Republics.

Ojukwu declared the secession of the Igbo people from Nigeria and the formation of the republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967 resulting in a civil war that led to the tragic deaths of more than 2 million Nigerians».

The family tree they assembled shows the darker moments in recent human history; for example the massive waves of death during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II.

Any combination of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster can produce the devastation and death that has wracked regions like northern Iraq, the Balkans, and Rwanda in recent years.

For data he used a National Institutes of Health — funded database of American Civil War veteran records: an informational treasure trove containing details like height and weight at time of conscription, daily roll calls of the sick and injured, periodic postwar checkups, census data, and, often, death certificates.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, continues to result in death, destruction and displacement.

In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities.

They also collected data from 586 adults in Sierra Leone following an 11 - year civil war that ended in 2002, which led to the displacement of much of the population and the deaths of over 50,000 civilians.

In the midst of the Galactic Civil War, transport yourself into space with our unique TIE Fighter ™ Pendant to light the way towards saving the Death Star ™.

A twee fantasy of frictionless sorority and romantic deaths as scant diversion from the carnage of the Civil War.

Synopsis: With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th AmendmeWar, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendmewar and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment.

T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is due to become king following the violent death of his father (which was shown in an explosive scene in Captain America: Civil War).

The closest we get to acknowledging the Marvel universe is a reference to the death of the father of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), an event that happened in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, and a bad guy who first popped up in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Black Panther picks up right after the events of Civil War, as T'Challa (Boseman) prepares to ascend to the throne of Wakanda, following the death of his father King T'Chaka (John Kani).

In this case, it's Confederate gold, stashed aboard a Civil War - era armored ship (the Ship of Death, a.k.a. the Ironclad, imaged in introductory framing flashback).

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Picking up shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War, which gave the character his big - screen debut, Black Panther finds Wakanda's crown prince, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman, with a purring accent), returning to take on the mantle after the death of his father.

T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is crowned king of Wakanda a week after his father's death in Civil War.

After the death of his father (John Kani), which was depicted in Captain America: Civil War, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) succeeds to the throne of a small, mysterious (and fictitious) African state called Wakanda.

But alas, despite looking pretty comics - accurate at the beginning of Captain America: Civil War, Brock Rumlow sees a quick death in the form of killing himself via grenade, and taking out an entire floor of people with him — though Scarlet Witch had a little bit to do with that also.

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Director Ryan Coogler will continue the story of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) as the king of Wakanda following his father's death in 2016's Captain America: Civil War.

Set after the events of «Captain America: Civil War,» the «Black Panther» movie finds our hero returning home to Wakanda in order to assume the throne and become king in the wake of his father's death.

The new trailer's still fairly light on plot, but it's clear that our protagonist, T'Challa (Boseman), is burdened with the responsibility of being Wakanda's new king — remember, his father died in Captain America: Civil War — and outside forces who want to capitalize on the instability his father's death provides and take over the country.

The deaths set up the final conflict of «Captain America: Civil War.»

T'Challa mission in Captain America: Civil War was avenging the death of his father T'Chaka after he was killed during a summit to pass the Sokovia Accords.

As always, though, Rockstar doesn't name - check so much as simply tip the cap to its favorite celluloid ancestors, from Once Upon a Time in the West (and its depiction of encroaching modernity sounding the old guard's death knell) and The Wild Bunch (especially during the game's later Mexican Civil War sequences) to, in the name of a budding oil community, There Will Be Blood.