Sentences with phrase «during war in their country»

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During World War II, the neutral country became the center of the gold trade in Europe, making transactions with both the Allies and Axis powers.

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.

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.

E.g., perhaps it made some sense to withstand some decades with a current account deficit in order to support the development of countries (then poor) in order to strengthen the position of the U.S. during the Cold War.

The idea was that politically independent central banks would take control of monetary policy from government treasuries that had become the de facto monetary policymakers during World War I and had created substantial inflation in many countries.

«Reacting with unusual swiftness,» The New York Times reported, two days day after the present Holy Father's election, «the Vatican on Friday rejected any suggestion that Pope Francis... was implicated in his country's so - called Dirty War during the 1970s.»

«My father made numerous trips during the Cold War when Eastern Europe and Russia were under Communism and built relationships with the churches in those countries.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

During the Cold War, I'm sure it was «justified» by our «need» to «fight the commies», but in the end it warped us as a country.

Since joining the EU in 2013, Croatia's population has been drifting toward the far right, including some who deny the Holocaust and have re-appraised the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustasha regime that ruled the country during World War II.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

Hence, many of the Arabs who were driven out or fled during and after the several wars, and who are now housed in camps on the West Bank or in Lebanon or who live in Gaza or Jordan, have no more right to the land than do the Jews who came there from Europe, America or the Arab countries.

He had been an outspoken critic of the Assad government in Syria during the start of the civil war in the country.

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From Ukraine, or Belorussia, or Baltics, you can strike at the main part of the country, and roll through it without any natural defensive positions right up to Moscow - which, it should be noted, was already done by both Napoleon's France in 1812 and Hitler's Germany in 1941, as well as earlier by Poland in 1610 and even earlier by Western knights (Google «Alexander Nevsky»)- as well as unsuccessful attempt by Swedes and Poles during Great Northern War.

During the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, Britain and its allies fought to defeat fascist forces in many European Union countries.

The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements, an example of which are the civilians that opposed Nazi German rule in several countries during World War II.

Grant issued an order to expel Jews from three states during the Civil War while Seymour's campaign slogan in 1868 was «This is a White Man's Country; Let White Men Rule.»

«Yes, I understand we have peace in this country but we shouldn't forget most of these countries that had war used to be most peaceful than Ghana but considering how some politicians have taken this year's elections as a «Do and Die Affair» we need to start preaching peace and start telling everyone that we want peace before, during and after elections — so that anyone who's planning anything evil can know that we Ghanaians are not interested» she said.

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.

He disclosed to the gathering at the programme that the NDC believed in development in unity and no acts of war would befall the country if given the mandate for a second term during the November 7 polls.

During World War II it was the highest - volume and most productive steel facility in the country, producing more steel for U.S. warships than any other U.S. steel mill.

During a speech in Youngstown, OH, Trump today laid out a broad framework for combating global Islamic terrorism, invoking the Cold War era to try new approaches to limiting the influx of immigrants into the country.

«Dr. Brown was a trailblazer who fought heroically for his country despite segregation during World War II and improved the lives of countless New Yorkers and Americans through his work in the Civil Rights Movement and the education field.

He described himself as a traditionalist in one way: his belief in the power of ideas to change the country - and talked about his own parents, who fled Nazi persecution during the second world war - but retained their passionate desire to harness ideas - in order to change the world for the better.

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

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

This is due to the fact that British women started smoking during the Second World War, while in most other EU countries women started to smoke after 1968.

In the 1930s and 1940s, when countries were racing to Antarctica to claim their own pie slice, Hitler even sent planes down during the height of World War II, so that Germany did not miss out and so that Germany would get a claim as well; they marked off its pie slice with Swastika - marked sandbags.

THE US, Britain and three other NATO countries have begun a study to find out if drugs used in cancer treatment would let soldiers function longer during a limited nuclear war.

During the Iran - Iraq war in the 1980s, troop movement and heavy bombing had a serious impact on the two countries» shared fragile desert ecosystem, which is home to such species as sand cats and spiny - tailed lizards.

Countries stockpiled sulfur mustard during World War II, but it saw limited use in battle.

In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.

In 1955, he was allowed to leave the country in exchange for American pilots captured during the Korean WaIn 1955, he was allowed to leave the country in exchange for American pilots captured during the Korean Wain exchange for American pilots captured during the Korean War.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

There are numerous games which show you what soldiers go through during a war, and how they serve their country in the line of duty.

Darkest Hour Gary Oldman gives the performance of his career as Winston Churchill, fighting to rally his country and inspire a war cabinet bent on surrender, in this dramatic study of a crucial month during World War war cabinet bent on surrender, in this dramatic study of a crucial month during World War War II.

The Shape of Water feels very much in tune with them and on this occasion he taps into the Cold War paranoia of America while also recognising the psyche that plagued the country during the secrecy of the Roswell incident and pays homage to the old Hollywood monster movies of yesteryear.

You're going to have a blast watching Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer portraying opposites as American and Russian spies during the Cold War that must put their differences aside and work together to infiltrate some dangerous people and locate a nuclear bomb; the banter that they share regarding the technical gadgets from their respective countries, their dissonance in personality (Cavill is the fast - talking, suave ladies man while Hammer is the brute that much control his temper), and constant feeling to one - up the other is all deeply fun.

Based on the true story of four young, talented Aboriginal girls in the Sixties, «The Sapphires», starring Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, newcomers Shari Sebens, Miranda Tapsell and Australian pop singer Jessica Mauboy, follows the all - girl group from Country and Western classics in an «unfriendly» outback pub to soul singing stars to the troops during the Vietnam War.

The storyline, such as it is, involves an American girl (Ronan, Hanna) named Elizabeth (who goes by «Daisy»), being dumped off with her cousins on a farm in the rural UK during what appears to be some sort of massive war (why a father would leave a child in a country in the verge of imminent catastrophe is never adequately explained).

In the Land of Blood and Honey Rated R for war violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Written and directed by Angelina Jolie, Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of a man and woman during the Bosnian War whose allegiances to their countries and religions keep them from furthering their relationshwar violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Written and directed by Angelina Jolie, Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of a man and woman during the Bosnian War whose allegiances to their countries and religions keep them from furthering their relationshWar whose allegiances to their countries and religions keep them from furthering their relationship.

The final question was: «Can an effective program be proposed for discovering and developing scientific talent in American youth so that the continuing future of scientific research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been done during the war?»

Students learn about the roles women played during World War II and design a recruiting poster telling women of the ways in which they can serve their country today.

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

They Also Serve Explore with students the roles women played during World War II; then students design a recruiting poster telling women of the ways in which they can serve their country today.

One walk, for example, began with a teach - in during which Yemeni students shared information about their home country, including its location, cultural traditions, and history of civil war.

Edna O'Brien was born in 1930 in western Ireland, where her parents lived in a picturesque stone house called Drewsboro, built on the remains of a fancy country house her father had helped burn down so the British couldn't use it during the Irish War of Independence after World War I.

At its peak, during and after the Second World War, American manufacturing was much like the country as a whole: full of can - do spirit and open to most anyone willing to jump in and work hard, with plentiful rewards for all.