Sentences with phrase «during civil war in»

also included an order of Benedictine nuns, who took sanctuary at Caverswall during the French Revolution, and parliamentary forces during the Civil War in the 1640s.

The nonprofit secures medical care and educational funds for young men known as the Lost Boys, who fled Sudan during civil war in the 1980s.

Refugee rights is an area of law that has affected Ermina personally as she immigrated to Canada in 1993 under refugee status during the civil war in former Yugoslavia.

Roses was one of the sites that was bombed during the Civil War in Spain.

However its interior was destroyed during the Civil War in 1936.

8:00 am — Today you have the option of a nice hike or horseback riding experience in the village of Acul, explore the town with your guide, see beautiful rivers and mountains with lots of cows, horses and wonderful views of the little village that one day was the main center for massacres during the civil war in Guatemala.

Sources: William R. Plum, The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States (1882); David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (1967).

Politics are at the core of Beirut, a thriller set during the civil war in Lebanon.

Hamm, right, stars as Mason Skiles, a U.S. diplomat in Lebanon during civil war in 1972, refereeing disputes in a cultural boiling pot of Arabs, Muslims and Israel.

Claire Denis resolutely refuses to make simple movies, so this intense drama set during a civil war in central Africa feels somewhat elusive as it concentrates on emotions rather than plotting.

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.

It was actually discovered during the Civil War in the early 1860s.

Museum Hours: Wednesday through Friday: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. — 4 p.m.. About: Incorporated during the Civil War in 1863, the Onondaga Historical Association's main goals are «collecting and preserving historical, genealogical, scientific and literary material» related to Onondaga County, per its charter.

Savonarola had such a dream in fifteenth - century Florence, as did the Anabaptists in sixteenth - century Germany and some of the sectarians during the civil war in seventeenth - century England.

Do we blame Abraham Lincoln for the deaths of people who starved or died during the Civil War in the US?

Not exact matches

Club president Josep Sunyol, a militant pro-independence Catalan, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, and is now memorialized in the club's museum, which draws about 2 million tourists a year.

As Dale Carnegie noted in his biography of the 16th president, «Lincoln the Unknown,» Lincoln once drafted a stern rebuke of General George Meade, who'd disobeyed Lincoln's orders during the Civil War.

The second reboot — featuring a younger and more accurately aged Parker in high school — takes place briefly before and during, but mostly after the events of «Civil War.»

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.

The signing of the historic agreement this week opens an exciting new chapter for mineral rich Bougainville, which saw its riches turn to rags during a 10 - year civil war ending in 1998.

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.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

Summary: «The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.»

During the Civil War, it assisted the capture of Fort Fisher in Wilmington, North Carolina.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

The debt, incurred during Angola's long civil war, was cut to $ 1.5 billion in a deal partly negotiated by Arcadi Gaydamak, a Russian - born businessman.

Hayek's belief that the pre-Fed US system did not restrain credit creation firmly enough is understandable in light of the five financial panics during the fifty years of the federally regulated «National Banking system» that prevailed between the Civil War and the First World War.

The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War.

Matthew McConaughey stars in this historical epic that tells the story of a real - life farmer who helped lead his own rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

The violence was gut - wrenching for an already - divided nation, but pales in comparison to the brutality of regular civilians during Civil War.

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.

During the Civil War, a hastily written prayer was found in the pocket of a fatally wounded soldier.

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Charles Francis Adams, scholar, gentleman, and an ambassador to England during the Civil War, remarked in 1871 that the years after the war «witnessed some of the most remarkable examples of organized lawlessness, under the forms of law, which mankind has yet had an opportunity to study.War, remarked in 1871 that the years after the war «witnessed some of the most remarkable examples of organized lawlessness, under the forms of law, which mankind has yet had an opportunity to study.war «witnessed some of the most remarkable examples of organized lawlessness, under the forms of law, which mankind has yet had an opportunity to study....

During the Civil War, he refused to fight, saying, «In this respect I am a Quaker,» but he worked through the YMCA and the United States Christian Commission to evangelize the Union troops.

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.

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).

The United States first became involved in the new wave of reparations in 1988, when Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act, allowing the federal government to compensate Japanese - Americans who had been interned during the Second World War.

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

He argues that «gun ownership was exceptional in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, even on the frontier, and that guns became a common commodity only with the industrialization of the mid-nineteenth century» and the militarization of America during the Civil War.

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.

Grass had gained attention during the Nicaraguan civil war by arguing everywhere he could that the Sandinista commissars were victims of a demonic American imperialism equal to Russian Communist oppression in Poland.

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.

Linda, the «In God We Trust» motto was put into place during the civil war.

Evangelical Protestant institutions partook to a much lesser degree in either the academic enhancement or the secularization of their mainstream cousins during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

Since so many evangelicals have traditionally resisted involvement in secular politics — most notably in recent years during the Vietnam war and in the civil rights struggle — it is a reassuring sign to see this development in the Middle East discussion.