Sentences with phrase «ending to world war»

The result, he says, could have been a faster and less devastating end to World War II as well as a profound shift in the course of world history.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

WHAT: After Japan's surrender brings an end to World War II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives in the country to spearhead the recovery effort, placing General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in charge of an investigative task force to decide whether Japan's beloved emperor is guilty of any war crimes.

Directed by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman tells the story of the Amazon princess who, after discovering the body of American fighter pilot Steve Trevor washed ashore on Themyscira, sets out to bring an early end to World War I.

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There have been quite a few apocalyptic - themed movies released lately, from «This Is The End» to «World War Z» to «Rapture - Palooza.»

Although World War I did not deliver on its promise to be the «war to end all wars,» its conclusion on November 11, 1918, has been celebrated around the globe as Armistice DWar I did not deliver on its promise to be the «war to end all wars,» its conclusion on November 11, 1918, has been celebrated around the globe as Armistice Dwar to end all wars,» its conclusion on November 11, 1918, has been celebrated around the globe as Armistice Day.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial wWar I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial warwar.

Corporate debt - to - cash flow is the highest it's been since the end of World War II.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

Historians agree Hitler killed himself at the end of World War II in 1945, and Germany subsequently surrendered to the Allied forces.

South Korea's spy agency also expected Kim to travel to Moscow this month to attend an event marking the end of World War Two in Europe, although there was no independent confirmation of the plan, Shin said after the spy agency briefing.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

Despite all the negative attention, «War of the Worlds» still went to No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend ($ 65 million), and ended up with a worldwide take of $ 592 million.

The end of World War II — and later, the collapse of the Soviet Union — provided European countries with the opportunity to redesign some aspects of their political systems.

South Korea's decision to invest in heavy industry — including shipbuilding, automobiles, steel, and electronics — and to put much of the nation's productivity under the control of large industrial groups, or chaebol, reflected government policies that mimicked Japan's zaibatsu — similar groups that controlled much of its economy through the end of World War II.

With headaches like natural disasters, rising wages in China, and a financial domino effect gripping economies around the world — not to mention recession - induced protectionism like U.S. President Barack Obama's jobs bills with their Buy American clauses — have we reached the limits of the global integration that has propelled the world economy since the end of the Cold War?

The Paris attacks must become calls to action to end the wars that are tearing the Middle East apart and flooding the world with desperate refugees.

I mean, our government debt is almost as large as it was at the end of World War II, relative to GDP.

President Moon Jae - in met with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone in an event that was aired around the world last Friday, when the two leaders agreed to formally end the 68 - year - old Korean War and to work toward the «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula.

Many feared the Great Depression might return after World War II ended, only to see the economy boom in the postwar era.

After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815 and again after World War I, Britain and other countries imposed deflationary policies lead to trade depression until prices fell to a point where the currency achieved its prewar gold price.

Titled Still renovating: A history of Canadian social housing policy, it's published by McGill - Queen's University Press and covers the period from the end of World War II to 2013.

By contrast, valuing these same structures on a replacement - cost basis, land value rose slowly but steadily from the end of World War II to 1989, from 20 to about 27 percent of overall corporate real estate values.

By some estimates, the United States accounted for roughly 50 % of global output at the end of World War II... It has fallen to 15.1 % today.»

At the end of World War II, the Treasury pressured the Fed to keep interest rates artificially low to minimize the government's interest costs on its ballooning debt.

The boom years of the so - called Roaring»20s were fueled by optimism that the world had fought the war to end all wars, and good times had arrived permanently.

During a dizzying week in which the world's two largest economies exchanged threats of heavy tariffs, Beijing has insisted that it's ready to wage a trade war «to the end.»

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee kicked off the 2018 Women in the World Summit in New York on Thursday evening with an all - encompassing worldview on how to effect social change, bringing the wisdom she gained from helping to topple a dictator and end a civil war in Liberia to the social movements sweeping the United States today.

De Gruchy might have placed more Catholic voices in his litany, including Pope Benedict XV, who commended forgiveness and reconciliation to European nations at the end of World War I, and Pope John Paul II, who also advocated mercy and forgiveness as political practices.

September 2nd will mark 70 years since the surrender of Japan to the Allies, and the end of World War Two.

Jesus is coming very soon that date may 21 2011 is not according to the bible at all neither is the rapture satan is working hard to counterfeit God's true word and to have people disbeileve the bible and scoff and laugh at christians if you read the bible carefylly u see clearly this is not found in the bible i beleive these people are followers thats why its so inportant for us to seek for ourselves and it so bovious God is soo real and its true also that there has to be an end because there is so much sadness and war in this world many people beleive the end of the world, but the end will be realy to sin..

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 Waworld 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 WaWorld War II.

With good leadership mankind can rise above the greed and violence that leads our world right now but it will take all of us together to end war, hunger, bigotry, etc...

The Catholic leader prayed for an end to wars around the world and particularly highlighted the ongoing war in Syria.

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.

we would self sustain ourselves... they have been the prime reason fr th recession due to higher oil prices to indirectly stage war against america and the rest of the world... cowards... if ther was no oil... the time has come for the next era... we are not far away from that day... the world is changing... science is developing in exponential way... new species are still being found... ther is always a progress... and these extremists are travelling to the end of the road... which will form the next journey fr the major part of the other world... no oil... no islamist would be heeded anymore... those people ll crumble very soon

The world would have continued to turn, flowers would continue to bloom, and wars would be started and ended, just as they always have.

That a new world order would bring peace to the nations and the end of war.

As World War II was ending, my uncle was about to be discharged from the Royal Navy.

But World War II ended its ambitions, after which Emperor Haile Selassie allowed foreign missions to work among Ethiopian animists for the medical and educational benefits derived in the less developed — and non-Orthodox — southern regions of the nation.

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.

Earlier in this century we fought a war to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy.

The idea of a kingdom of Satan at war with the kingdom of God, and temporarily dominant in the world, appears in one Greek manuscript in an addition to the long ending of Mark: «The limit of the years of the authority of Satan is fulfilled.»

The arrival of the First World War, which breaks at the very end of series one, allowed for a grittier set of issues to be explored.

One useful perspective is to go back to the middle of the previous century to analyze the two decades from the end of World War II in 1945 to the death of Flannery O'Connor in 1964.

according to the bible, jesus will kill 2/3 of humanity at the end times when he opens his daddy's seven seals: death, war, plague, famine, etc. yep, jesus kills babies at the end of the world.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

Yes, he was in the midst of his struggle to dedicate his life to the living God, in the passionate storm of his deepest love relationship, and in utter despair as he experienced Germany's ruin at the end of the First World War.

There is a sense in which World War II has not yet come to an end.