Sentences with phrase «early days of world»

Join the museum's informal book group for a discussion of The Muralist, a novel by B.A. Shapiro that focuses on the early days of World War II and the dawn of Abstract Expressionism.

Since the early days of world travel the colossal works of ancient mortals have attracted seekers of the romantic and the exotic to Egypt's dusty landscape.

When Hitler destroyed 80 percent of the Soviet air force during the early days of World War II, the decorated Russian air hero, Colonel Maxim Chibisov, was personally selected by Joseph Stalin to fly to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, with 300 Soviet airmen.

An extraordinary tale of deceit, double - dealing, and moral ambiguity - an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by the British in Washington during the early days of World War II.

It is the early days of World War II, and two brothers find themselves on opposite sides.

Jennet Conant discusses The Irregulars, an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by British spies, including Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, in Washington DC during the early days of World War II.

Based on Alan Judd's novel The Kaiser's Last Kiss, first published in 2003, David Leveaux's twist - filled film The Exception is set at a secluded estate in The Netherlands where Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer) lives in exile with his wife Princess Hermine (Janet McTeer) during the early days of World War II.

That second Hitchcock movie was «Foreign Correspondent,» produced by Walter Wanger: a top - notch melodrama of international intrigue and nail - biting suspense that was set in the early days of World War II.

Gary Oldman won an Oscar portraying Winston Churchill as he leads a charge against Hitler's army in the early days of World War II....

Darkest Hour (Universal Home Entertainment) takes place during the early days of World War II.

Set in the early days of World War II, it's largely static, showing Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) weighing his options despite political pressure.

During the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms.

His upcoming film Darkest Hour, to be released by Focus Features in November 2017, stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill leading the charge against Adolf Hitler's army in the early days of World War II.

«The Darkest Hour» focuses on Winston Churchill during the early days of World War II, when the newly - appointed British Prime Minister has to make life - changing decisions for his country.

«During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly - appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds,» Deadline reports.

Winston Churchill leads a charge against Adolf Hitler's army in the early days of World War II.

In his latest movie Darkest Hour, Oldman plays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent and Britain facing its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms.

Darkest Hour: During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly - appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

Darkest Hour centers around Winston Churchill as he leads a charge against Hitler's army in the early days of World War II.

Darkest Hour turns out to be a misleading title for Joe Wright's new movie about Winston Churchill, which is a surprisingly buoyant look at Britain's celebrated political leader in the dire early days of World War II.

Established in the early days of the World Wide Web, AMM set the standard for dating websites and offered a unique format and functionality that saw it rise in popularity very quickly.

Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific.

Now, imagine if you took all the drama of the early days of a world - changing company and added hamburgers.

We were inspired by this post on Business Insider, which used the non-profit Internet Archive's «Wayback Machine» cache tool to see what the websites of some prominent corporations used to look like during the early days of the World Wide Web.

Synopsis: In the early day of World War II, the crew of English cargo ship the SS Glencairn — including Swede Olsen (John Wayne), Englishman Smitty (Ian Hun... [MORE]

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The market capitalization or value of all the world's digital coins stood at $ 310.4 billion early on Thursday morning, down from $ 372.9 billion a day before, according to Coinmarketcap.com, which tracks prices based on different exchanges.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forWorld War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld's last substantial rain forests.

The price of oil dropped Tuesday after a big jump a day earlier over jitters that Russia's military advance into Ukraine could result in economic sanctions against one of the world's major energy suppliers.

Richard Branson, founder of no fewer than 400 companies and one of the world's foremost overachievers, has said of his morning exercise routine, «Getting up and at it early gives me time to get on top of things, and chart my day effectively.»

That two of the world's savviest business minds seem to disagree over how key parts of how the clean energy sector will develop are reflects how the world's energy transformation is still in its early days.

Commissioned in the exciting early days of the Shuttle program, it proved that Canadian science and engineering could match any in the world.

Jackson's assistant called Schilowitz in early 2007 to say his boss would like to try out the camera the next time he was in L.A. Jannard learned early on in his Oakley days that if he could get stars to use his product, the rest of the world would follow.

It is still early days for the new world of user - driven news and content, but it is not too soon to adapt your strategies.

One of the best ways to attract PR coverage for your marketplace, particularly during those fragile early days of its existence, involves taking control of your own messaging and getting information out into the world in the form of a press release.

The price of single - day passes at Walt Disney World in Orlando was bumped up by $ 4 earlier this week, bringing the base adult ticket to $ 95 at EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom, and admission to the Magic Kingdom up to $ 99 ($ 105 and change after taxes).

Many have compared the blockchain space to the early days of the internet and some believe that blockchain will rival the internet in its impact on the world.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

Much of the history of the world can be understood through this approach to history; and this is to say also that man, in this our own day, can better understand himself and his own day as he sees how his own problems were met by men of an earlier day.

Early in the century «day nurseries» were provided for immigrant children, and day - care centers sprang up during both world wars to accommodate the children of women working to support the war efforts.

The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.»

Kenny Johnson... it appears that Paul, Peter and the early church also thot that the world as they knew it was soon going to end, that Jesus wd return and the long awaited Kingdom / Day of the Lord wd soon come to pass.

In their early days, when the Emergent Church was vying with the new Calvinism for pole position in the American evangelical world, they launched regular, and often very thorough, critiques of the Emergent leaders.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

The Pope's message for the 45th World Day of Peace, New Year's Day, was released a couple weeks early on Friday, December 16, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Here we meet, certainly not the first interrelation of science and religion (for that reaches back into the very beginnings of man's thought about the world), but one of the earliest clashes of the two, in a form much like what has been familiar right to our own day.

Many readers will remember the full - page signature advertisements feminists took out in the early days of the abortion movement, telling the world that they had killed their own unborn children.

In his book Science under Islam he argues that in the early days of the religion Muslim scientists led the world in many fields.

Here is what Karl Barth has taught us to consider a great «saga», but one that is not fictional nor imaginary but grounded in happenings in the world and in the manner in which those happenings were seen and expressed through a long period from the earliest days of the Jewish people down to and through the specific occurrences in Palestine which are associated with Jesus Christ.