Sentences with phrase «during the second world»

After Rotterdam was bombed during the second world war, the city made an active effort to address social division.

According to Brent Thompson, who heads Cushing's chamber of commerce, oil was discovered in the area in the 1930s, and those wells were responsible for supplying much of the U.S. military's needs during the Second World War.

History: The USS Carl Vinson is named after the congressman from Georgia who served in the House during the Second World War, and later oversaw the transition of the Departments of War and the Navy into a singular Department of Defense.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that for fiscal 2009 the deficit will be US$ 1.6 trillion, or 11.2 % of GDP — a crippling magnitude last witnessed during the Second World War.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

The late George Carlin noted that what we called «shell shock» in World War I morphed into «battle fatigue» during the second World War, which became «operational exhaustion» in the Korean War, and then, since Vietnam, «post-traumatic stress disorder.»

Only during the Second World War was the prohibition on industrial hemp in the U.S. temporarily lifted when offshore sources became unavailable.

«The Juno Beach Centre Association supports the education of adults and children of today and future generations about the role of Canada and Canadians during the Second World War,» said Don Cooper, Director and Acting President for the Juno Beach Centre Association.

Situated near the heritage - designated site of the original D - Day landings, the Juno Beach Centre is a permanent memorial designed to honour the sacrifices made by Canadians during the Second World War.

In 1935, our federal debt as a percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) was already 75 per cent, but we did not surrender during the Second World War because Canada could not afford soldiers.

Pogroms were carried out by slavic nations during the second world war.

Regretably, after the Second World War the Confessing Church disappered immediately, because the Confessing Church was united with the German Evangelical Church, which had supported Hitler during the Second World War.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

During the Second World War she was evacuated to Stoke - on - Trent along with the rest of the bank's staff and was involved in the Young Christian Workers.

The inquiry led to the cancellation of a planned statue in Canterbury Cathedral celebrating the bishop's work helping to rescue Jewish children transported out of Germany during the Second World War.

Joan Bakewell, in the February 6th edition of The Times, decided that the Pope's decision to lift decrees of excommunication from four Lefebvrist bishops, one of whom absurdly denies the historical veracity of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, should be linked to his Regensburg Address: in her view this was a sign of an increased antagonism on the part of the Vatican towards other religions.

Or take another recent story on Francis, which referred to «Rome during the Second World War, when the silence of Pope Pius XII was understood as a tacit admission of Vatican acquiescence with the policies of the Axis.»

He does use the word «Aryan» in his writings but the sense in which it was used during the Second World War is not to be found.

During the Second World War, the Third Reich was opposed by local partisans and ad hoc military and civilian organizations.

My earliest memories of my father are as a soldier occasionally on leave during the Second World War.

The group cited his work during the Second World War welcoming Jewish refugees to his Bishop's palace.

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.

Her latest is Courage and Conviction, about Bridgettine nuns who hid Jewish refugees in Rome during the Second World War.

He said: «We also wish to remember many of the British security forces and Army personnel whose bravery and sacrifice speaks volumes and stands tall - where they defended this land during the Second World War and also during the Emergency.»

Corrie ten Boom (1892 - 1983), whose home in Haarlem was a sanctuary and hiding place for Jews during the Second World War and who herself survived imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp, told how she lied to save Jews from the Nazi death camps.

Her latest is Courage and Conviction about Brigettine nuns who hid Jewish refugees in Rome during the Second World War.

During the Second World War strenuous work in the vineyards of Southern France caused another breakdown in health.

listening to the leaders making speeches during the second world war all mentioned they have god on their side.

Imagine writing a letter to Jewish people in a concentration camp during the second world war, and you went on to explain what a Nazi was, and who Hitler was.

A bible that belonged to a Church of Scotland minister who helped save more than 2,000 soldiers during the Second World War has been returned to his former church.

Artist Jamie Wardley said, «The idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable, the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the Second World War Normandy landings»...

The fact that there was considerable harmony between my ethical convictions and the policies of the United States Government during the Second World War and during the early years of the cold war contributed to this» (Bennett, 9 - 10).

This is one reason why American Protestantism did not become hysterical with patriotism during the Second World War.

St Nicholas closed as a church following bomb damage during the Second World War.

In response to the assaults against human dignity during the Second World War, the United Nations began to develop a universal framework of moral standards.

When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Pope Pius XI declared wars of conquest to be unjust, and during the Second World War Pope Pius XII worked for peace and tried to protect the suffering.

The internment and relocation of 110,000 Japanese on the Pacific Coast during the Second World War, not for any acts of disloyalty but simply through a suspicion based on racial identification, was less virulent in its effect than the Nazi destruction of the Jews but equally irrational.

In later years, when he returned to critique his youthful writings, he concluded, «The philosophy I was taught [i.e. the Thomism of the Gregorian University before and during the Second World War] seemed to me not so much decadent as quite irrelevant.

It was used during the second world war by the English Wi.

During the Second World War, the people of England gathered wild rose hips and made a vitamin C syrup, for general consumption, and in particular for children.

Having a unique flavour and colour and completely natural, the drink disappeared during the Second World War and the rise of Communism.

During the Second World War, The Quaker Oats Company published a recipe for Oatmeal Cookies that called for shortening, as butter was in short supply.

The event, held at the Boiler House, Battersea Power Station, raised funds to fix the leaking roof of the 192 - year - old theatre, which sustained bomb damage during the Second World War.

It was during the second World War that thousands of Australians had been introduced to a great new drink by American troops.

As well as the many game dishes seen on the menus, the name of the restaurant also pays playful homage to The Stafford's famous former resident, Nancy Wake, an eccentric female spy who frequented the in - house American Bar during the Second World War and who resided at the hotel during her final years.

There has been a lot of rivalry between United and Manchester City in recent years but during the Second World War, the latter came to help out by lending their Maine Road ground when Old Trafford was rendered unplayable owing to bomb damage.

German international and FC Schalke goalkeeper Hans Klodt missed the entirety of both the 1942 and 1943 season after being injured at the front during the Second World War.

Ned Courtney played Gaelic football for Cork during the Second World War, winning the Munster Senior Football Championship, before winning three League of Ireland titles and playing in three successive FAI Cup finals with Cork United and Cork Athletic.

The Irishman joined Manchester United in 1936 from Republic of Ireland side St. James» Gate, and aside from serving in the British Army in Italy during the Second World War represented United for almost two decades.

During the Second World War 42 of Arsenal's 44 professional footballers were drafted into the services.