Sentences with phrase «during the civil war by»

He makes the argument that Custer was a reckless, egotistical officer who had made his military reputation during the Civil War by taking unnecessary risks with the lives of his men.

Anesthesia was first delivered during the Civil War by trained nurses, and nurses today still provide anesthesia services.

Not exact matches

He did so by overcoming some serious adversity; he was a refugee during the First Liberian Civil War, according to The Guardian.

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.

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.

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....

In American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War.

... Don't forget that these same household codes were used by many Americans during the Civil War era to justify their owning of slaves.

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.

Picasso's «Guernica» depicted the horrors of the bombing by Nazi planes of a tiny village during the Spanish Civil War, making striking use of the cross to drive home the inhumanity of modern warfare.

All pretense to the concept of armed citizenry as a defense against a standing army was obliterated by the Union Army during the civil war.

From: A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague.

Barcelona is in Catalonia and suffered greatly under Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War; Real Madrid was Franco's team and supported financially by the Spanish State.

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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Boles, a member of the so - called «Notting Hill set» and Remain supporter, compared the rifts in the Conservative party caused by Brexit to the split allegiances during the Spanish Civil War.

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.

But the air strikes were also cheered by Democrats hoping for an end to the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the country during its seven - year civil war.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

A statement allegedly issued by the government of Eritrea is reportedly ordering men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men caused by enormous casualties suffered during the civil war with Ethiopia.

(Airs 5/10/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Syndey Schanberg and Actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg's coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

While this provision was undoubtedly inspired by the desire to put beyond question the obligations of the government issued during the Civil War, its language indicates a broader connotation.

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:

In the interest of this discuss, the Eyo Ita incident played a great role in the level of apathy expressed by members of other ethnic groups during the civil war.

The endorsement was made Wednesday, a day before Johnson made headlines by asking «what is Aleppo» when questioned during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» about the city that is at the heart of of Syria's devastating civil war.

ICOM has since used satellites to survey damage to ancient mausoleums in Timbuktu during the 2012 civil war in Mali and plans to use them to assess destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Consider the plight of Syrian academics, «dozens» of whom have been kidnapped or executed during Syria's civil war, according to a News & Analysis article by Richard Stone.

By comparison, during the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in 1863, roughly 150,000 soldiers fought (less than 0.5 % of the divided nation's population).

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.

The first official Thanksgiving Day was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777 during the Revolutionary War, and Thanksgiving became established as an annual holiday in 1863 during the Civil War.

The blue field is from a flag carried by Choctaw soldiers during the civil war.

We learn about her growing up in a broken home and subject to physical and emotional abuse by her mother LaVona (Allison Janney, The Help), her marriage to Jeff Gilooley (Sebastian Stan, Captain America Civil War) when she was young and the subsequent abuse during that relationship, and of course her skating career.

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.

Captain Marvel was also revealed to appear in Avengers: infinity War on accident by The Russos during the Civil War press tours.

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.

Directed by Daniel Barber, «The Keeping Room» «focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged during the purges at the close of the American Civil War.

«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.

Hawkeye, also known as Clint Barton, had entered retirement but was drawn back to the fight by Cap when he called on him to aid him during his fight against the newly produced Sokovia Accords in Captain America: Civil War.

With a focus on the trials of three young women as they work to maintain their lives and their home during the final days of the American Civil War, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduWar, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduwar or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endure.

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.

The play, written by «The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, features an all - black, female cast and the 33 - year - old actress said she found the story of five women, who during the Liberian civil war in 2003 are trapped by rebel commander, an important narrative.

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.

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.

Official Synopsis: Set during the Civil War, The Retrieval follows a fatherless 13 - year - old boy (Ashton Sanders) sent north by his bounty hunter gang on a dangerous mission to retrieve a wanted man (Tishaun Scott) under false pretense.

It would even survive the blighted nation's decades of post independence suffering marked by poverty and civil war, during which Wendo's brand of Rumba would serve to sustain the spirits of the people.

«Eclipsed,» a drama about four women held as sexual slaves by a warlord during the Liberian civil war and starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong «o, opened at Broadway's Golden Theater this month after a well - received run at the Public Theater last year.

The 1971 original was directed by Don Siegel and cast Clint Eastwood as an injured Union soldier who is imprisoned in a Confederate girls» boarding school during the Civil War.