Sentences with phrase «civil war years»

Just like I did in Beirut in 3rd grade, on the tail end of the civil war years.

Only the final model (5f in Fig. 2) returns a statistically significant climate parameter estimate; apparently, major civil war years (i.e., years with at least 1,000 battle deaths) are more frequent in years following unusually wet periods — a result that directly contradicts the notion of scarcity - induced conflicts.

During the Civil War years, Congress also authorized additional taxes on both...

During the Civil War years, Congress also authorized additional taxes on both alcohol and tobacco, and created the Office of Internal Revenue under the Treasury Department to enforce the tax laws and prosecute individuals for tax evasion.

Not exact matches

Club president Josep Sunyol, a militant pro-independence Catalan, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, and is now memorialized in the club's museum, which draws about 2 million tourists a year.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

The Spanish Civil War and the 36 years of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship feature heavily in his discourse.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

Meanwhile, it is unclear what strategy Trump will adopt with regard to the years» long Syrian civil war between President Bashar al - Assad and rebel forces who want his ouster.

Europe is has seen 500,000 migrants enter the region so far this year, many fleeing from civil war in Syria in the Middle East, according to Frontex, the EU's border protection agency.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqWar Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqwar cries with a resounding «No!»

Russia has largely staked its credibility in the Middle East on saving Syrian President Bashar Assad's government from collapse during its bloody seven - year civil war.

The signing of the historic agreement this week opens an exciting new chapter for mineral rich Bougainville, which saw its riches turn to rags during a 10 - year civil war ending in 1998.

Furthermore, Angola's government granted Americans almost no tourist visas for years because of American support for Angolan rebels in a 27 - year civil war that began in 1975 and killed more than half a million people.

While Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbor's 7 - year - old civil war, the nation has neither confirmed nor denied the raid.

Twenty years after the Civil War, the demand for Grant's book was clearly going to be greater in the North than in the South.

About three years of civil war followed, after which the Bolsheviks came out on top and took over the country.

Jews suffered certain legal civil disabilities in the colonies and in some of the later states and certain extralegal social disabilities in both, but they suffered no persecution until three years after the War.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Black Panther would also be the first Marvel movie to reach $ 1 billion since Civil War cleared $ 1.15 billion two years ago, and the fifth so far from Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The most recent playset for Captain America: Civil War, for example, not only focuses on new characters like Black Panther and Vision, but includes support for Marvel - based figures from years past.

According to Reuters, Putin's role as intermediary between Riyadh and Tehran was pivotal, and is a «testament to the rising influence of Russia in the Middle East since its military intervention in the Syrian civil war just over a year ago.»

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.

When confronted by human rights organizations regarding the violent evictions, former Canadian ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook, claimed these images of the eviction were taken during the 36 - year civil war that ravaged Guatemala from 1960 to 1996.

Hayek's belief that the pre-Fed US system did not restrain credit creation firmly enough is understandable in light of the five financial panics during the fifty years of the federally regulated «National Banking system» that prevailed between the Civil War and the First World War.

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.

On hold, if not vanished, are the revived battles of the Civil War of 150 years ago and President Donald Trump's foolhardy insistence that he will shut down the government if Congress does not authorize spending for a wall along the southern border.

This gets into the Bitcoin civil war that has been raging for years.

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the South and North American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

Some experts argue that four years of drought in Syria helped contribute to its civil war.

These images became more common — and insistent — in the years following the Civil War.

Currently, more than 2 million people have been forced to flee the country during a horrific civil war that has been raging for the last two years.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 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 (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

The U.S. Civil War was a bloody conflict, but that war lasted only 5 years, and the antagonists did take prisoneWar was a bloody conflict, but that war lasted only 5 years, and the antagonists did take prisonewar lasted only 5 years, and the antagonists did take prisoners.

I don't have much background in history, so may I know how many years, decades, centuries had passed since that civil war?

Thompson suggested that Francis was fueling a «Catholic civil war,» and further commented, «prayers are being said for an end to this pontificate within five years, max» — but didn't reveal whether he thought such prayers sinful.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs pagans) 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 (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

Carried over from before the Revolution, it might have also been fortified by the meager, perilous years of the Civil War.

They captured the hearts and minds of those who attended Bible and prophecy conferences in the years after the Civil War.

For example, it includes about 20 percent of the 4 million people killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's civil war, which significantly skews the 10 - year average that the number represents.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War...

It's an interesting coincidence that the Reformation, which brought the whole of Europe into civil war and lead to mass migration happened a mere 25 years after Columbus «discovered» America.

The issue of protecting the basic rights of persons from hostile or indifferent state governments was constitutionally resolved almost one hundred and fifty years ago in the Fourteenth Amendment, purchased with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American lives in the awful crucible of the Civil War.

On a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer - woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a prayer meeting not far from the U. S. Capitol.

This week marks the sixth year of the Syrian civil war which began when the Syrian people started denouncing President Bashar al - Assad's government.

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