Sentences with phrase «end of the second world war»

David Ayer, writer - director of brocentric LA cop drama End of Watch, gets more macho with a tank movie starring Brad Pitt as «Wardaddy», the jarhead commander of a renegade bunch of soldiers fighting the Germans at the scraggy end of the second world war.

The new commission In The Body of The Sturgeon envisions a peculiar time and space: an American submarine at the very end of the Second World War.

Guggenheim's Minerd calls Brexit «the biggest sea change on global collectiveness since the end of the Second World War.»

«The free trade, or freer trade, that we've had since the end of the Second World War has been the great engine which has lifted up literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty — far more than any aid programs,» Hufbauer says.

At the end of the Second World War, manufacturing jobs accounted for 26 % of all Canadian jobs; by 2007, this figure had dropped to just 12 %.

Ever since the nuclear age began with twin detonations in Japan at the end of the Second World War, the world has been nervous about nuclear.

It is below the 3.76 % average since the end of the Second World War and above its 10 - year moving average, now at 1.65 %.

He is continuing a cross-country tour, meeting with Albertans which will include those in Grande Prairie, a riding which hasn't seen a red MP since the end of the Second World War.

Little wonder that the major European powers, and not Germany alone, preferred to fasten onto anything but the Holocaust at the end of the Second World War.

However, these issues start with the disadvantage (for their proponents) of trying to overcome the bulwark of human rights laws which, since the end of the Second World War, have increasingly placed duties on nations to protect life and to outlaw any deliberate deprivation of life.

All the things that mattered most to Evelyn in the years up until the end of the Second World War went into the novel, even though many years later (now bitter and disillusioned) he grew rather ashamed of its excesses, its sentimentalism and richly ornate language.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

As the OECD has pointed out, most of these people were lifted out of poverty by the globalization and expansion of trade since the end of the Second World War, the largest shift out of poverty in human history.

As they ponder that question, and vacillate between idealism and despair over the United States, they can reflect on a message sent to them at the end of the Second World War.

At the end of the Second World War, when the Nuremberg prosecutors were gathering evidence for the upcoming trials, one of the many people they turned to for assistance was Pope Pius XII.

A few hardy optimists imagine that the end of the Second World War represents the end of our troubles; and that the world is now firmly set upon a path of peace.

This «moment» extended from the end of the Second World War through the early 1960s, although Sehat finds precursors even in the 1920s.

It was Austria's first win over Germany since the end of the Second World War, and it is perhaps best remembered for this magnificent moment of commentary.

As a cultural practice, circumcision was adopted at the end of the Second World War as a regular neonatal practice in English speaking countries, including England, the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.

David Cameron has been ranked by experts as the third worst prime minister of to have held the office since the end of the Second World War.

The West has not gone through anything like this since the end of the Second World War.

I had been driven to write the article by the avalanche of media coverage that year in the United Kingdom about the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, which endlessly claimed that Britain had been fighting for freedom and democracy during that war, and that the Allied victory was nothing short of the triumph of good over evil.

Sir Winston Churchill first used the term «special relationship» in 1946 a year after the end of the Second World War.

British troops are to retreat from Germany for the first time since the end of the Second World War, it has been confirmed.

In 1964, the last year the death penalty was in force, there were 296 homicides in England and Wales, and the homicide rate had consistently fallen since the end of the Second World War.

By the end of the Second World War anarchism as a political force was effectively dead.

Now factor in the end of the Second World War and the start of the Cold War with the communist Soviet Union and there you have it.

And as we prepare for the 2015 General Election, to be held in the seventieth anniversary year of the end of the second world war, let us take our inspiration from the great reforming Labour government of 1945.

Free movement has also been the emotional glue that has held Europe together since the end of the Second World War.

Following his victory, Benn said leaving the EU would be «the most complex process since the end of the second world war».

He looks at the period, two decades after the end of the Second World War, in a divided Germany, still struggling to come to terms with its place in the world.

After the end of the Second World War, Shepherd, together with his wife Allison, went to Singapore as an employee of a British trading company.

John Reid describes the terrorist threat as the most severe «since the end of the Second World War».

8 May 2010 was the 65th anniversary of V.E. Day — which marked the victory of the Allied Forces over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe — and celebrations were held to mark the occasion.

But annual growth figures go back far further and show a far longer period of growth - a quarter - century's worth, lasting from the end of the second world war to the first oil shock of the seventies.

This is a Conservative - led government presiding over the highest tax burden since the end of the second world war and the smallest standing army since Victorian times.

The instructions will come in a letter from Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander, in the latest step in preparing for what is set to be the toughest spending review since the end of the Second World War.

And when Hurricane Ike came through in 2008, it was just like Berlin at the end of the second world war.

FOR about thirty years after the end of the Second World War, the American government, through the Department of Defense, the CIA and various nongovernment research institutions, conducted medical research on several thousand of its citizens, often without their knowledge.

For example, girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during a long famine at the end of the second world war had twice the usual risk of developing schizophrenia.

To some — those living in Antwerp or London in 1944 and 1945 — he was the evil genius responsible for creating the V2 rocket, built with slave labour, that caused so much misery at the end of the Second World War.

The second group composed of people who immigrated to Israel after the end of the Second World War and were directly exposed to the Holocaust.

The Soviet Union acquired them at the end of the Second World War, but Japan still claims rights over the southernmost four.

The world faces a totally unprecedented migration, 40 times greater than those at the end of the Second World War.»