Sentences with phrase «decade war this year»

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The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

Somalia has been at war for decades and until the last few years it has struggled to attract foreign investment.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

«A trade war could lead to more than a year's worth of lost wage growth over the next decade,» says Kent Smetters, director of the Budget Model and a professor at the Wharton School of Business.

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.

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Under current law, stabilizing the debt at its current post-World War II record level of 77 percent of GDP would require deficit reduction of 2.4 percent of GDP per year over three decades (the equivalent of $ 6.1 trillion over ten years).

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

For over two hundred years» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decayears» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decaYears» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decades).

Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, folks keep trying to fight the «war to end all wars,» but to no avYear after year, decade after decade, century after century, folks keep trying to fight the «war to end all wars,» but to no avyear, decade after decade, century after century, folks keep trying to fight the «war to end all wars,» but to no avail.

Moreover, the often bloody drama of the postwar transition to responsive and responsible government in Iraq» a society that suffered for thirty years under the lash of a regime that rivaled those of Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung for viciousness» has guaranteed that the seismic shocks generated by the Iraq War will affect world politics for years, and likely decades, to come.

Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the wWar, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the warwar.

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

So we focus on the little things that keep us human and «normal»: this year, I fell in love after living at and in war for three decades.

Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

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.

A firm believer in diplomacy, the Ambassador's doctrine appears validated by the previous decade, where ten years of war and occupation have merely resulted in miring the US in two unwinnable wars in the Middle East, persuading non-nuclear countries that security lies in acquirement of nuclear arms, and the disillusioning of much of the world of the the trust that the US is a force for good on the world stage.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

The six - decade long Democratic coalition that has produced such leaders as Democratic Chairman Fred Miller (in office since 1965), late Supervisor Phil Rotella and currently serving Supervisor Howard Phillips, among others, has shown signs of fracture this year, as a war between former party coalition supporter and trailer park owner John Piperato, his brother County Clerk Paul Piperato and the Democratic Committee led by Miller and Phillips, has commenced.

That pales in comparison to when agriculture's share of U.S. jobs fell by almost four percentage points per decade in the first 40 years after World War II.

Americans, in the span of just a few short years after World War II, all but completely shunned butter and this behavior pattern continued for decades because saturated fat was supposedly the demon of heart disease.

Croatia's declaration of independence in 1991 was followed by four years of war and the best part of a decade of authoritarian nationalism under President

It was also light years ahead of all film special effects that preceded it, and nothing came close to redefining the look of a «space movie» until the original Star Wars, a decade later.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

Obviously we can't fit all of Iran's political problems of the last 30 years into a 2 hour movie, but I did feel that the movie was trying to give us a message on what we should think or feel based on a two sentence explanation of a decade long war.

There's a sense with Infinity War that the studio has begun to finally understand and embrace their own material, indulging both the light and the dark, the weird and the normal, which has enabled their comic books to succeed for 79 years — Infinity War is the bold, brash, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking result of a decade - long undertaking.

Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.

Half of a Yellow Sun tackles a decade or so in Nigeria's tortured chronology, from its early years of independence to the disastrous Biafran war that divided the country in 1967 — 1970.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

Fire at Sea / Fuocoammare Directed by Gianfranco Rosi Italy / France, 2016, 108m English and Italian with English subtitles Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco Rosi's documentary observes Europe's migrant crisis from the vantage point of a Mediterranean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades.

The covers nearly four decades, constantly shifting between the events surrounding the aftermath of the botched CIA - sponsored «Bay of Pigs» attempt at overthrowing Fidel Castro and those of Edwards» formative years, mostly including his dealing with the spy operations that took place in the World War II and early Cold War eras.

Along with the historic numbers of Black Panther from earlier this year — and by the way, Black Panther jumped to no. 5 at the box office this weekend, piggybacking off of Infinity War's hype to secure another $ 4.38 million domestically — Marvel has dominated the box office in 2018, and much of the past decade.

Avengers: Infinity War is the endgame of a decade of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — from the Elon Muskesque origins of 2008's Iron Man to the geopolitical themes of this year's Black Panther, and everything good (Spider - Man: Homecoming) and bad (Thor: The Dark World, LOL) in between.

The seemingly innocuous structure of Kiarostami's film, a series of apparently mundane conversations with wildly spinning depths that over time accumulate such weight, such possibility, that builds to a crescendo with the year's most shattering momentum, wins out over Boal's screenplay that is more than just the effective distillation of a decade of history, but a radical (for Hollywood at least) rethinking of character and a fascinating, open - ended exploration of what counts as evidence and certainty in the post-Iraq War world.

While these numbers represent an improvement from twenty years ago, they have actually remained almost completely static over the past decade, suggesting that the post-Cold War march to democratization tapered off in the first years of the new millennium.

We have a feeling that 10 years ago nobody including Jeep — especially Jeep — would have guessed that by the end of the decade, a Jeep Grand Cherokee would win that war in the SUV segment, serving up 707 hp courtesy of a supercharged 6.2 - liter V8 connected to an eight - speed automatic transmission sending those horses to all four wheels.

They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two - thousand - year - old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war.

Beginning with his birth in the Red Row district of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1913, through his return to his hometown in 1943, readers are given a glimpse of what life might have been like for men of color in the American South during those three decades, years that encompassed two world wars as well as The Great Depression.

Despite the underlying fiscal irresponsibility, the US enjoyed a Cold War dividend in the»90s — deficits shrank steadily & Clinton even enjoyed budget surpluses for a few years as the decade ended.

The beginning of the previous year saw attractive offers yielding lowest mortgage rates in decades, and with that, an era of «mortgage wars» came into motion, with every major bank decreasing its mortgage rate to a shocking low value in order to attract customers at a time of economic instability.

Decades later, the console wars rage on, with Sony rumored to come out with the PlayStation Neo later in the year.

Although she was born two years before Joan Mitchell, and knew her, along with many of the American artists who lived in Paris in the first decade after the end of World War II — including Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis and Al Held — Jaffe went in a very different direction, pictorially speaking, from her peers.

Civil War builds upon Kline's project Unemployment, made and exhibited over the last two years, which looks at the potential human consequences of automation, artificial intelligence, and mass - unemployment in the decades ahead.

BRACHA: Pietà — Eurydice — Medusa is the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Bracha's work in the United States, featuring a range of works spanning the last four decades — oil paintings, often created over several years, earlier and more recent drawings, notebooks, and three video works — that address the themes of loss, love and trauma within the context of the atrocities of war and traces of memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

... He was a vital figure in the Paris art world of the years before World War I — that decade which saw the gathering of so many and such diverse talents, and an astonishing fertility of styles.

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