Sentences with phrase «during civil war times»

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The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times during the Syrian civil war, hitting convoys and bases of Iranian - backed militias that fight alongside Assad's forces.

The young Holmes was a zealous abolitionist, but he lost enthusiasm for this and all other causes during the Civil War, where he was wounded three times and saw comrades slain in the bloodiest battles.

Further, historical experience shows the value of an executive having some prerogative to act beyond his strict authorization, in times of immediate opportunity (the Louisiana Purchase) or immediate danger (the perilous position of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War).

«During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South,» reports Olivia B. Waxman for TIME magazine.

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

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.

During the war they sent a petition to the Virginia Government stating that «at a time when this colony, with others, is contending for the civil rights of mankind, against the enslaving schemes of a powerful enemy... the strictest unanimity is necessary among ourselves.»

After learning about the plight of these children, can you still do nothing for them while at the same time thinking that if you had lived during the Civil War, you would have been on the side of freedom?

At certain times in history, during the Civil War, for example, pecans and other nuts were very expensive and hard to find, and people needed to come up with creative, new ways to make delicious desserts... and thank goodness for their innovation, because otherwise, we wouldn't have this tasty, pecan pie-esque Amish pie.

With time to explore this land and her culture, Don Quixote, Velazquez's Las Meninas, and the Alhambra Palace come at your heart like a love - letter stuffed inside a Molotov cocktail, a weapon first used during «Le Guerra,» the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the RepublicaWar, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicawar between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicans.

After they visited Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War, Ellen's return plane had been hit by lightning but she arrived back to the Commons just in time to move her Hire Purchase Bill, to protect the poorest in society.

Asked by the Church Times last year whether he would have supported British people who joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, he replied:

Liberia's police and army are overseeing election security for the first time since the civil war following a handover from UN peacekeepers last year, and though underfunded have kept the peace during the campaign.

During the English Civil War Newark was a Royalist stronghold, where the Parliamentarians laid siege to it three times before it eventually surrendered.

The elder Paine had been an oarsman for Harvard in the 1850s, and served as an officer in the 22nd Massachusetts in the Civil War, during which time he commanded a unit of African - American soldiers.

People who experienced or witnessed violence were four times more likely to suffer from alcohol - related disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the civil war, researchers from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Brown University report this week in the American Journal of Public Health.

A fairly illustrious list of residents has passed through in its time, including Mary Queen of Scott, imprisoned here in 1568 and the Royalist garrison also made it their base during the English civil war of 1568.

The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters — Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker)-- during the time of the Civil War.

Starring Daniel Day - Lewis in the pivotal role of Abraham Lincoln, the film tells the story of the last months of Lincoln's presidency and his mission to abolish slavery during the time of the civil war.

After stealing every scene during his introduction in Captain America: Civil War, Marvel's definitive Peter Parker shouldered the responsibility of rebooting the hero on screen for a third time in his own solo venture and the result was a resounding success.

During the Civil War storyline, as many as 500 women served in order to protect Wakanda at the time.

The fact that Wakanda stayed hidden before Civil War explains why we never saw Wakandans on the scene before during times of world - ending crisis in the Marvel franchise.

During an early Civil War scene, Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) offers some appropriately - timed words of wisdom for Steve Rogers (Chris Evans).

Civil War screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely - who also wrote the first two Captain America movies - not only tackle very complicated subject matter (the issue of accountability on not just a political level, but also a personal one) but at the same time have to introduce important new characters (more on them later) and carve out room to give the supporting cast enough onscreen development so that they're not just making glorified cameos during this movie.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

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.

The movie is set in Ireland during the tumultuous times of rebellion and civil war.

This set of 39 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the time period before the Civil War.

Feast, about a doomed love affair in a manor house during the English Civil War, was bought as part of a time - unlimited two - book deal by Grove Atlantic's Morgan Entrekin years ago.

The setting was during the time of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era where the plot revolved around romance and marriage, love and loss - with a twist of mystery.

He grew up during an especially turbulent time in the country's history — witnessing the departure of the occupying USSR troops; the ensuing civil war that inflicted incredible hardship on the population as warlords from the Mujahideen sought to fill the power vacuum; the subsequent takeover by the Taliban; and finally the Taliban's ouster by the foreign coalition formed after 9/11.

At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.

He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade during the Bosnian civil war, working for a number of publications including The Times and Sunday Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, the Guardian, the Observer, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the Independent.

It was used as a healing dressing on wounds and infectious sores in Biblical times, and it is credited with saving the lives of thousands of soldiers during the Civil War.

It continued to be a royal castle until the Tudor times, when Elizabeth I passed it on to Sir Christopher Hatton, and it was besieged during the English Civil War, with the defence of the castle led by the wife of Sir John Banks.

Historic Country House Hotel, at one time a sanctuary for persecuted clergy, later a stronghold for Royalists during the Civil War...

There will be plenty of time to explore the site and if possible buy colorful textiles, paitings, wood work and many other hand crafts of the local people In the tour we also include a visit to the colonial church of Santiago, built in 1547 been the masacre place of the priest of Francisco Stanly, originally form the States and many other interesting topics that hapend during the Civil war, as this village was affectec.

Ocarina of Time is set approximately 10 years after an unknown King of Hyrule unified the country during the Hyrulean Civil War.

Also note that during these time periods, Solid is in the Green Berets, Liquid the SAS and Solidus is fighting in the First Liberian Civil War, commanding the Small Boy child soldier unit.

(Re) branding: A voice to communicate Natasha Boddie / October 2017 Growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, School of Art alumna Nelly Sarkissian spent much of her time watching Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun with a vivid image of James Graham Ballard's iconic drained swimming pool fixed in her memory.

During that time the twin towers fell, Afghanistan was invaded, and sanctions against Iraq turned into occupation and civil war.

The 19th and 20th centuries were also an important time in Missouri's history because the state's geographical location and diverse population were important factors during the Civil War and World War II.