Sentences with phrase «during a civil war from»

Krishnapriya Tharmakrishnar (b. 1987) ( Image: Impression 2 - 1, 2015, Nail drawing on tracing paper ) is an emerging artist lives and works in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, which experienced fierce fighting during the civil war from the early 1980s.

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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.
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.
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 - 39 — a war that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and ItaWar of 1936 - 39 — a war that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and Itawar that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and ItaWar II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and Italy.
But since this was also during the civil war and rise of the KKK, this might have been done to «save» the church from further violence against its members.
Unfortunately many of the words and acts of churchmen during and after the Civil War were far from the spirit of a ministry of reconciliation.
Its unity in and with Rome kept American Catholicism from fracturing during the Civil War, according to the standard account.
And during every war from the Revolution War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righwar from the Revolution War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righWar to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil rights.
Also slighted in «The American Bible» are more recent voices, since it is harder to generate a vast commentary tradition for a work from the 1990s or 2000s than for one published during the revolution or the Civil War.
The intent of this chapter is to discuss what the conception of the ministry and the practice of the ministers tended to become in America — and why — during the two hundred and fifty years from the planting of the first permanent English colony in 1607 to the stabilization of the new nation on the verge of the Civil War.
The conception of the ministry, the practice, and why these came about in America during the two hundred and fifty years from the planting of the first permanent English colony in 1607 to the stabilization of the new nation on the verge of the Civil War.
From: A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague.
During the opening ceremonies on Dec. 9, the delegation from Libya — which lost an estimated 30,000 people in the civil war that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi — was led into Khalifa Stadium by rower Mohammed al Rabti, a silver medalist at the»07 Arab Games.
It was postulated by my elders when I was a boy that these lumber rustlers appropriated the term from an elite Zouave regiment raised during the Civil War.
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The U.S. had little defense spending relative to GDP prior to, and after, the U.S. civil war, except for a brief surge during WWI, from which the U.S. promptly and dramatically demobilized.
«a political tradition that goes back from today's Climate Camp through anti-war, anti-colonial, and anti-slavery movements, suffragism, Chartism, and the Levellers during the English Civil War
I still have sharp nails from grenades that entered my body that our brothers shot at me during the Civil War.
«The emissary from Planet Fuck» — as he was known among Blair's aides during the civil war — was at the heart of the Brown faction.
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.
Grant issued an order to expel Jews from three states during the Civil War while Seymour's campaign slogan in 1868 was «This is a White Man's Country; Let White Men Rule.»
Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.
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 Civil War, the North defeated the South, which was trying to break away from the US.
Personally, with the experience I have as a military man and during the civil war, using local intelligence, using local authorities from ward, to local government, to the state can improve our intelligence collection,» Buhari noted.
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.
Violence during the civil war in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996 resulted in the development of significant mental health problems and conditions for the county's people, according to a new multi-institution study from researchers under the Guatemala - Penn Partnership.
The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.
It has a history of caring for U.S. servicemen — sailors from the New Haven seaport sought care at the hospital during its early days, and during the Civil War, more than 25,000 U.S. Army soldiers were cared for at the hospital.
The blue field is from a flag carried by Choctaw soldiers during the civil war.
A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.
The film, written by Tony Kushner and adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's book «Team of Rivals,» focuses on the battles within the Lincoln administration during the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Opening shot: the American Civil War, the first person we see and hear is a black man, soldier during 10 long years, the second we hear is Lincoln - whom we donâ $ ™ t see yet, we will see him very soon from the back, the same position as the audienceâ $ ™ s - asking him about his situation, the third that speaks is another black soldier.
That's all he'd say but the scene comes from during the movie so we'll learn how Falcon and Cap capture the villain of The Winter Solider when Civil War is released in May 2016.
Based on images this account tweeted out during production of Captain America: Civil War, many of which were later verified to have revealed tiny details from the movie, there is solid reason to trust that this is indeed a teaser straight from the set.
THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
The film follows two stories in parallel: in one, neurosurgeon Àlex Brendenmühl looks to uncover the secret in his parents» past that's preventing them from helping him in his fight against cancer; in the other, a group of kids are institutionalized during the Spanish Civil War because they've been struck with some condition that renders them numb.
«testing...» is based on a passage from the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the battlefield commemorating the more than 51,000 soldiers that lost their lives during the three days of battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War.
SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier.
SYNOPSIS: At a girls» school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.
The character, as Ray apparently sees him, is not the charismatic hero of legend, but rather an angry young man, driven by the atrocities his family suffered during the Civil War to revenge himself on Yankees by stealing their money, first from banks, then trains.
The Beguiled Release Date: June 30 Director: Sofia Coppola Starring: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Ferrell Synopsis: At a girls» school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.
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.
Dynasty Warriors 9 is the latest game in a sweeping subgenre of 3D brawlers where you play as historical figures from 2nd and 3rd century AD China during the fall of the Han Dynasty and the ensuing civil war.
The true story of seven French Trappist monks who were kidnapped from their monastery in Tibhirine and killed during the Algerian Civil War, Of Gods and Men surpasses the tragically topical by focusing on the monks» faith and their spiritual commonality with their Muslim neighbors.
You'll pardon the embroidery metaphor, which comes straight from the movie itself, a darkly absorbing Southern gothic tale set in 1864, during the fraught final days of the Civil War.
During the big Marvel Studios panel at Comic - Con in July, Marvel screened a short mockumentary from Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, which explained what Chris Hemsworth's Thor has been up to since Avengers: Age of Ultron, and how he felt about being left out of Marvel's Civil War.
Hence, much was expected from Thor: Ragnarok, also given the Thunder God's absence during the events of Captain America: Civil War.
Ahead of its release on Friday, STX Entertainment has released a five minute preview from director Gary Ross» upcoming Civil War drama Free State of Jones which features Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland; watch it below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Free State of Jones Set during the Civil War, The Free State of -LSB-...]
During the American Civil War, those loved ones charging onto the battlefields didn't go that far, and the wives, children, and family they all left behind were forced to keep their homes safe from threats both domestic and... well, domestic.
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