Sentences with phrase «during civil conflict»

Set during civil conflict, the film mostly follows Earth - born, armor - clad Don Rumata (Leonid Yarmolnik), who poses as the baronial offspring of a pagan god as he makes his way through the sweaty, ugly, farting, primitive madding crowd.

Not exact matches

Thor was as soon as conspicuously absent during the eventualities of Captain the us: Civil conflict.

During the Roman civil conflicts he first supported Mark Antony, who had momentarily achieved power.

Despite considerable scholarship about purposeful violations of civil and political rights during conflict, there is a general tendency to view damage to cultural heritage as an unfortunate collateral outcome, rather than as a deliberate tactic.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

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.

Similar to Winter Solider, Civil War also has trouble delivering a satisfying payoff to the intriguing questions and dilemmas that it presents during its first act; but again like its predecessor, Civil War helps to make up the difference in this respect by serving up compelling character - driven drama / conflict during its third act.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a more ambitious novel than The Kite Runner, with a wider and deeper historical and cultural scope that illuminates the last three decades of Afghan history during which the country has been inflicted by coups and counter-coups, an anti-Soviet jihad, civil war, warlord and Taliban tyranny, and post 9/11 conflict.

Although Armstrong sadly did not live to become an RA, he produced a stunning body of work that took inspiration from both the English landscape and the major conflicts that took place during his lifetime, such as the two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War.

There are three works from his Elegy series included in the show at the Kunsthalle, works that were dedicated to the sacrifices made during the Spanish Civil War — the first great conflict that played out between democracy and fascism in the 20th Century.

On 27th street, Will Ryman's «America» «appropriates Abraham Lincoln's boyhood cabin to stand as an iconic emblem of American socioeconomic conflict during the Civil War and its eventual transformation.

This was a time of immense social and political conflict, change, and transformation — the civil rights movement, the Black is Beautiful movement, and the second wave of feminism — during which many women, particularly African - Americans, rejected and redefined traditional standards of beauty.

Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad's work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975 — 91), and by the socioeconomic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades.

Civil War Tour of Apothecary A 30 - minute tour features topics about abolitionism in the Quaker community, prescriptions from the Civil War era and the Leadbeater family during the conflict.

This was a time of immense social and political conflict, change, and transformation — the civil rights movement, the black is beautiful movement, and the second wave of feminism — during which many women, particularly African - Americans, rejected and redefined traditional standards of beauty.

«DLH has a horrific record of financing conflict through its timber trading during Liberia's bloody civil war.

After analysing data from 1950 to 2004, they found that «the probability of new civil conflicts arising throughout the tropics doubles during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.»

There, John Hart, a conservationist who has worked in Congo for two decades described how during the country's recent civil war (1998 — 2003)-- said to be the most deadly conflict since World War II — illegal bushmeat and ivory were among commodities exchanged for arms and ammunition.

During the month of April, 2014, Canadian Defence Lawyers (CDL, Canada's voice of civil litigation defence lawyers) surveyed its Ontario membership in order to identify areas of unnecessary conflict between plaintiff and defence lawyers in personal injury litigation.

Saudi Arabia, a majority Sunni Muslim country and Iran, a majority Shia Muslim country, have been in major geopolitical conflict which has intensified since the Iranian Revolution in 2011 and Iran's support for Syria during the Syrian Civil War.