Sentences with phrase «during the civil war years»

During the Civil War years, Congress also authorized additional taxes on both alcohol and tobacco, and created the Office of Internal Revenue under the Treasury Department to enforce the tax laws and prosecute individuals for tax evasion.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Currently, more than 2 million people have been forced to flee the country during a horrific civil war that has been raging for the last two years.

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....

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.

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.

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.

This town was burned down 153 years ago during the Civil War, and the Atlanta Flames left for Canada in 1980, but other than that... burning?

So now we hardly ever hear that Arsene should be sacked any more, but during that bad run last year we practically had a civil war on JustArsenal, not to mention the abuse given to Wenger and the players at Stoke Station after another loss.

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.

«We are going to the courts,» said Savimbi, son of the UNITA founder Jonas Savimbi, whose death in 2002 during the civil war against Dos Santos's forces paved the way for a ceasefire after 27 years of fighting.

Also chilling are the Soviet Union's vivid indictments of the US civil rights record during the Cold War years — the Statue of Liberty looms as a police watchtower (see below).

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:

He was captured in March and charged with 11 counts of war crimes for backing Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels during the country's brutal ten - year civil war.

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.

Mozambique's Gorongosa Mountain means «place of danger» — fitting for a remote rainforest that saw its biodiversity bulldozed during 15 years of civil war late last century.

The risk of civil war in tropical countries increases during hot, dry El Nino years, perhaps due to food shortages.

A deadly virus in a part of the world that had no experience with it, health systems neglected during years of civil war, and a population that was highly mobile across borders, distrustful of governments, and more inclined to seek out traditional healers.

Newspapers were filled with stories and maps and casualty lists; people who had been children during the Civil War recalled years later that they had eagerly followed the progress of «their» armies — in which fathers or older brothers often marched — through their local papers.

The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion)-- A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14 - year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.

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.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a nurse at Mansion House Hospital in Union - occupied Alexandria, Virginia, during the early years of the Civil War.

The Retrieval (R for violence) Unlikely - buddies saga, set during the Civil War, about the friendship forged between a 13 year - old orphan (Ashton Sanders) and the fugitive slave (Tishuan Scott) he's been hired to escort back to the South.

A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14 - year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.

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.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

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.

«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.

He lived through the Qing dynasty, the early republican years, the northern conquest [by the government against warlords], the fight against the Japanese [during WWII] and finally the exodus to Hong Kong [during and after the Chinese civil war between 1945 and 1949].

The first — and more involving one — is simply observing how a group of Sri Lankan refugees, after their displacement during the final part of a 25 - year civil war within the island nation, adjusts to living in France.

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American CivilYears A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civilyears in Louisiana before the American Civil War.

Daniel Day - Lewis took home the Best Actor award for his 2011 portrayal of American President Abraham Lincoln during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

During Flickering Myth's interview with Triple 9 actor Anthony Mackie, we brought up another movie of his due for release later this year — Captain America: Civil War.

Having been a soldier during the Civil War, it took 34 years for Harriet Tubman to receive a small veteran's pension.

Materials: Selected Civil War Photographs, computer, projector for presentations Lesson: Arrange students into groups and assign each group a year during which the Civil War was fought.

In this project, your group will take the role of a virtual tour guide during a particular year of the Civil War.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

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.

In this novel set during the Civil War, a 17 - year - old boy treks to Gatlinburg followed by guilt — and a group of killers.

The years during and following the Civil War saw momentous social, polticial, religious, scientific and artistic ferment.

According to historian Candice Shy Hooper, during the four years of the Civil War Julia traveled more than 10,000 miles to be with her husband, sometimes through enemy territory.

He is also a contributing lecturer to Civil War roundtables and historical societies, and has provided Civil War authors including Peter Cozzens (The Shipwreck of Their Hopes) and Wiley Sword (Mountains Touched with Fire) with rare documents and diaries that have contributed to an understanding of civilians and soldiers during the climactic years of the Civil War.

The whole novel turns on a moment in one of his history classes when D'aron mentions that his home town stages a Civil War reenactment every year during its Pride Week Patriot Days Festival.

Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, the Cliff House first opened its doors here on the West Coast in 1863 — the same year Civil War Union troops repelled General Lee's Confederate advances during the Battle of Gettysburg!