Sentences with phrase «down over war»

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E-1 wages were not increased between 1952 and 1958, so Korean War and Vietnam War troops made the same amount of money at the lower ranks — except inflation over the years drove the real value of the wages down.

On my uncles farm 400 fully grown citrus trees were cut down by the «war vets» because he refused to hand over the years tobacco crop to them.

While some of the rhetoric around trade tariffs on China has died down over the last couple of weeks, the prospect of a trade war has not.

A 2010 Senate report by Senator Lieberman affirmed the President's authority during war, threat of war, or «a state of public peril» to «take over wire communications in the United States» and «shut a network down» under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934.

Coming off a second quarter that saw sales down 19 percent year over year, EA is banking on the strength of its «Star Wars» franchise to...

For now, undaunted by the prospect of a trade war, President Trump has doubled down on his policy, threatening European car exports at a rally over the weekend.

Wall Street falls sharply amid tech and trade - war concerns: Reuters Korea expert recommends cancelling Trump - Kim meeting: CNBC US ISM Mfg Index edged down to still - strong 59.3 for March: MarketWatch US Mfg PMI rose to 3 - year high in March: IHS Markit Construction spending in US posted a weak 0.1 % gain in February: Reuters Eurozone mfg sentiment still positive in Mar, but eased to 8 - month low: IHS Markit German retail spending fell for third month in February: Reuters Fed funds futures predicting no change in rates at FOMC meeting in May: CME US visitor visas fall 13 % over past year: Politico

The market there is down over 13 % and getting beat up by the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index, but BlackRock thinks it does okay during a global trade war.

This was his eighth season since coming down from Canada; he had picked Houston over five other NFL cities in a flat - out bidding war.

He was a crew member of an Army Air Corps bomber that was shot down over Germany during World War II, according to Marty Naughton, commander of American Legion Post 208 in Arlington Heights.

I'd imagine it's difficult to uphold constitutional obligations of raising and funding a military, since the military was used during the Civil War to take down the confederate states; and those regions definitely had nothing to fork over for a while after that defeat.

Her attempt to hold together the warring Tory factions over Brexit has so far involved mainly kicking cans down the road — but she is rapidly running out of road.

Regardless of who shot down the plane and taking into account that (non-civil) planes had been shot down before, is Ukraine in part responsible for allowing civil planes to fly over a war zone?

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

Sources at the Asylum Down headquarters of the NPP indicate that four executives of the party are engaged in a serious turf war over the management of party funds and resources for this year's polls.

In April, Miner stepped down from her post as Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic Party co-chair after warring publicly with the governor over various policy proposals.

The film's single downside is a certain nagging sense of deja vu: the fact that so many of the elements of the story — the dark force, the all - empowering object, etc. — have been usurped over the years (by «Star Wars» and others) that you feel as if you've been down this road many, many times before.

The 31 - year - old actor plays Chewbacca in «Solo: A Star Wars Story», and he insisted he didn't let fans» expectations weigh him down when shooting the moment his character first met Han Solo - portrayed by Alden Ehrenreich, who has taken over the role from original trilogy star Harrison Ford.

Based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, The Debt traces the lives of three young Mossad agents whose mission it was to track down, kidnap and hand over to officials a Nazi war criminal known as «The Surgeon of Birkeanu» (Jesper Christensen, Everlasting Moments).

The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

The story looks fascinating: Louis Zamperini is a 1930s athletics star who fought in World War II and was shot down over the Pacific, is then taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Let's hope over the years she doesn't get seduced by Hollywood and watered down through years of faceless mainstream movies (Star Wars Episode III, anyone?).

We go from a clip of a person saying, «The war is going to be over soon,» to 10 minutes later the Boeing airplane comes down and you realize the conflict is just beginning.

And, if as you've maintained, the dead father, who was German, may have been chased down by townsfolk still upset over the war and by his accent, make sure he doesn't speak with an English accent in flashbacks.

Tom Hanks stars in the film as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who was pushed headfirst into the frosty depths of the Cold War when he had to negotiate for the release of downed U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) after the airman was shot down over Russia.

Angelina Jolie's second film as director tells the extraordinary story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic long - distance runner who fought as a bombardier in the second world war and survived 47 days adrift after being shot down over the Pacific before being taken prisoner by the Japanese.

While Civil War does present an actual villain for the team to take down, the biggest battle in the movie is with each other over the level of freedom they have.

While that is down significantly from tracking earlier in May that suggested the film would open between $ 165 million and $ 175 million, some are still projecting the «Star Wars» prequel could make as much as $ 180 million over the four - day holiday weekend.

«World War Z» is mostly David Lean - on - caffeine panoramas of computer - generated zombies swarming ant - like up walls and over barricades and taking down computer - generated choppers while Forster's close - up camera swings all over the place to generate unearned «excitement.»

Against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war, an Israeli pilot shot down over Beirut forms an unlikely bond with one of his captors, a proud Palestinian boy.

Stuck in an infinite loop where he must repeat the same day over and over again (with his death serving as the reset button), Cage teams up with a celebrated war hero (Emily Blunt) to track down the alien hive and end the war.

So far, the buzz has been great and the sequel is on track to earn over $ 350 million at the worldwide box office, which will be enough to knock Infinity War down a peg or two.

I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...

Berlin, old and new, pristine and vandalized, streets bustling with life, still makes a fine setting for this kind of tale, even now that the wall is down, Germany is one and the Cold War, for the next 20 minutes at least, is over.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

With Reform Fervor in the Air, Local School Board Elections See Record Outside Spending This year, huge amounts of money and passion are flowing down the ballot into the school board elections — part of an all - out war over public school reform.

After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.

Similar in tone to the Dickey classic, Deliverance, it is a story of survival at all costs in which an American tail gunner, who is shot down over Japan during the final months of the war, ruthlessly makes his way across enemy terrain, heading north, to freedom.

One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm.

After all, the world teeters on the brink of war, and bombs could rain down any minute over the bleak English countryside - just as they did seventeen years ago as his mother, pregnant with him, tended her garden.

I agree that this is like the browser wars all over again, but hopefully the industry leaders have learned, and we won't end up with the equivalent of IE6 dragging the industry down for the next decade.

In a world locked down by the near global «war over ebooks» Sweden is different.

With a number of market closures, a gearing down of activity with Canadian DIY investors over the final week of 2015, and probably because everyone is out watching Star Wars, it was an opportune time to look back at all of what's happened with Canadian discount brokerages in the short span of just one year and muse about what it all means for 2016.

I think it shows that we are in a war, a war over the lives of innocent people taken down by pit bulls.

Over three quarters of the Island is unspoilt National Park, there are many fine walking tracks, linking and descending into secluded bays, and up to the World War II forts and gun emplacements for magnificent 360 degree panoramic views of the Island and up and down the coast.

Interestingly, this river formed part of the famous Iron Curtain which came down across Germany after the Second World War, and as a result of this, both riverbanks have been left relatively untouched by human hand, leaving them to become taken over by natural forces.

You could easily dive down to explore the wreckage of the famous civil war gun - runner, the U.S.S. Adirondack, swim and snorkel with a pod of dolphins, and be back in time to have a cocktail and watch the sunset over the beaches of Paradise Island.

Power Rangers: Legacy Wars is available to download for free on iOS and Android devices and has been downloaded over 23 million times since its release, so there should be no shortage of players to ally yourself with and take down those leaderboards.

The wait for spending money is over, starting today MMO fans can lay down some hard cash for the upcoming Guild Wars 2.