Sentences with phrase «end to the war seemed»

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This time the seeker is Blake, an Iraq war veteran who's spent his 20s meandering through life and who's now content to offer minimal effort in what seems to be a dead - end job in a bookstore franchise.

So it seems that the confusion about how to end the global war on terror starts at the top and trickles down to individual intelligence analysts.

Beneath the calls for gun control that mark this remarkable political moment, there seems to be an underlying rebellion, one that is demanding an end to the war against youth.

Even though investors seemed to lose momentum toward the end of the session on Monday, positive comments from Chinese officials succeeded in easing fears about a potential trade war, and that helped refocus most market participants on the impending start to earnings season.

The world from San Francisco to the Ural Mountains seemed permanently divided into two hostile, ideologically opposed, nuclear - armed camps, along a fault line defined at the end of World War II.

Obama's biggest problem is he doesn't seem to be capable of showing emotion and making unpopular decisions (end the war, public option, etc..)

And yet they can not seem to eclipse, in the public mind, a morally ambivalent war that ended seventy - three years ago, which was fought with the utmost ruthlessness, and one of whose victors was an appalling despotism of lies and murder.

Seems to be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy war were every one there will be glad to give his life as a martyr...!

Any way as it seems this will be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy War were every one there will be glad to give his life and die as a martyr.

But unlike some of his socially liberal colleagues, Smedes refrained from advising Dean Rusk how he should end America's presence in the war.34 Smedes does not seem to be totally consistent at this point, however.

DeVet seems to have assumed that we were arguing that the pro-life side won because it was pro-life and that this victory marked the end of the culture wars and the ethical issues of biotech.

Ambivalent, half - hearted war making may seem better than the determined and ferocious use of force to achieve clear ends because it foretells less violence, less killing.

Look it will obviously take more than saving a few refugees to solve this problem but it doesn't seem like Assad is going away anytime soon so if we can help some people while we pursue our larger goal of ending the civil war then I'm in favor of helping.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

State Senate Republicans don't seem eager to end their war with Mayor de Blasio.

The end which never seemed like it would come is soon to be upon us as big bad Thanos has had enough of hanging around in the cosmos and is gearing up to take centre stage in Avengers: Infinity War, which is now in production.

Waititi doesn't seem to give a damn about answering questions from previous movies or setting up the next big thing — Avengers: Infinity War (May) will follow Black Panther (February)-- and that's the beginning of the end for this version of the MCU.

Even if Thanos doesn't win by the end of Infinity War, it would seem a waste to not do it at all, especially after the Russos demonstrated their ability to effectively adapt comic panels to the screen with Civil War.

To force the policy upon the president, she introduces an ingredient into her product that will infect and ultimately kill every drug user in the world unless they get her antidote in time — which makes no sense, and which the president seems to believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swooTo force the policy upon the president, she introduces an ingredient into her product that will infect and ultimately kill every drug user in the world unless they get her antidote in time — which makes no sense, and which the president seems to believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swooto believe would be doing him a favor, effectively ending the war on drugs in one fell swoop.

Some series that seem to have no end in sight also hit the marquee, such as: Transformers: The Last Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Marvel's Spider - Man: Homecoming, and War for the Planet of the Apes.

While this doesn't explain what that means specifically, it seems to likely refer at least to Luke Skywalker and Rey, who sought Skywalker out to return his lightsaber (and perhaps seek Jedi training) at the end of Star Wars: Force Awakens.

The ending of Avengers: Infinity War seems to leave viewers somewhere on a spectrum of baffled grief, confusion, outrage, and disgust.

Back to the Future, the original Star Wars films, The Lord of the Rings, these are trilogies that managed the impossible and unveiled not only tremendous storytelling from beginning to end but created a following of loyal fans that only seem to grow in size as time goes on.

The end which never seemed like it would come is soon to be upon us as big bad Thanos has had enough of hanging around in the cosmos and is gearing up to take centre stage in Avengers: Infinity War, which is now -LSB-...]

When Noah goes off to serve in World War II, it seems to mark the end of their love affair.

Considering that the MCU film came in third place domestically over the Easter weekend, it seems safe to presume that Marvel plans on keeping the movie in as many theaters as possible until at least Infinity War hits theaters at the end of the month.

Instead of spending all of his time in battle, he smartly chooses to show these characters as people who are faced with a daunting war that never seems to end.

As he journeys more and more he ends up in the middle of a war that he seems to be the only one that can turn the tide.

The poems and delight on stars seem to be absent in their lives, oblivious just the same to what is going on in the world, financial bubbles, drones, wars, and COPs (Conferences of the Gov Parties) no matter what number it is, but usually ending with no effective results, it does not matter, but getting the new gadget does.

Even though they mostly talked past each other on issues like the deep budget cuts Trump has proposed and the desirability of school choice everywhere, the visit did seem to signal the end of the long war between the education department and the teachers unions over the school and teacher accountability issues that have dominated the relationship for the last 17 years or so.

This book as many others before returns us to one of the most frightening moments in history towards the end of World War II, it may seem incredible that our way of life, was threatened by the menace that Hitler and the Third Reich represented.

In the opening section of The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst jumps into the milieu of some of the greatest novels in English, the end of the dress - for - dinner era that came just before World War I. His fine and elegant writing seems to be more than an homage to novels such as Brideshead Revisited or Howard's End; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to send of the dress - for - dinner era that came just before World War I. His fine and elegant writing seems to be more than an homage to novels such as Brideshead Revisited or Howard's End; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to sEnd; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to say.

The horrors of the Civil War are also made immediately felt through the characters» lives in quiet but such graphic prose that it made me feel I was understanding it for the first time as a fellow human being rather than a student of history... One beautiful passage at the end of the book stays with me and seems particularly relevant, perhaps, to our current political moment: «So much blood has been spilled that redemption may be out of reach in the end.

When the war ended, their lives collided at a Korean orphanage where they vied for the attentions of Sylvie Tanner, the beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary wife whose elusive love seemed to transform everything.

The Peloponnesian War seems to have no end, and one woman has had enough.

It seems to me that was the same kind of thinking behind German war reparations after WWI, and we all know how that ended.

You see, sometime during World War II the Germans successfully invaded Britain, and to repel those invaders something so horrible was done that the entire population ended up taking a drug called Joy which makes everything seem... wonderful.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) have released their Q4 results for the fiscal year ending March 31, and it seems the company has bounced back nicely from last quarter, when they posted a $ 186 million loss due to weak Star Wars Battlefront II sales and a hefty one - time tax charge.

Hmmm... the entire quote offers the bigger picture... «While discussing Gears of War 4, reviewer Jimmy Thang said, «In terms of pure image fidelity, it surprisingly looked better than our high - end gaming PC equipped with a GTX 1080 running the game maxed out, as it offered extra dynamic shadows that don't seem to be available on the PC.

It seems too late for Gears of War or Halo to go in that direction, with both franchises in the middle of or ending new sets of trilogies, but maybe Microsoft can surprise me.

This world war really lives up to its name and without giving anything away, the story goes into some pretty interesting subjects as well as bringing back quite a lot of familiar faces.It is actually a shame that the story couldn't keep going since the manga is still fighting the war, but the stopping point makes sense and is more than enough to keep you excited for what seems to be the end of Naruto story.

Since this week seems to be all about Star Wars, what better way to end it than with a video of Chewbacca performing the lovely carol «Silent Night» in his native language, Shyriiwook?

However, it took until E3 2015 for fans to get a glimpse of the new Gears of War 4 which seems to feature new characters and a new storyline that takes place some years after the Gears of War 3 ending.

While we've had God of War 3 Remastered, which was well received, God of War has yet to make a true «next generation» appearance for PlayStation, so it is obvious that this will be a big name for Sony to bring to end the year, but a release like this does seem a little far - fetched.

Nothing seemed to suggest the major change in direction Pasmore's work was to take two years after the end of the Second World War.

It seems as if Flusser's concept of the global totalitarian apparatus, hypothesized in 1985, has today come to fruition in the form of climate change, the intelligent war machine, the surveillance state, factory automation and the seemingly unavoidable, locked in place, systemic flows which forecast an inevitable and catastrophic end to the Anthropocene.

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

«Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century.»

Anyway, since you seem to be a serial mischaracterizer of what I say and believe, and in the name of not further cluttering up this thread with typical climate wars banter, maybe we should consider ending our exchange there?

It seems to me these other successful campaigns worked either because we ran out of funds (ending certain wars), or there was majority public support (reducing smoking in public facilities), or there was the potential for expanded employment and large profits (Space Program), or.......