Sentences with phrase «ending years of conflict»

Residents in the village of Kiryas Joel, in Orange County, and those in the Town of Monroe voted this past Election Day to part ways, ending years of conflict over zoning.

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Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven - year - long conflict.

The conflict between the mail carrier and its biggest union sparked another instance of federal back - to - work legislation, but it didn't end the more than year - long dispute.

Apart from the destruction and loss of life, Saudi Arabias oil reserves are bombed, the U.S. is poised to enter another Middle East conflict and, in the end, Irans nuclear capabilities are only set back by a couple of years.

From visceral cues like the moon and May and 60 years of Korean conflict ending, to 30 different data points we observe every Sunday as part of the Sunday Strategy Session.

In key respects, the debate over fiduciary duties ended last year with the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule win.

The Muslim Arabs first settled on the Malabar coast about fifty years after the Hijrah, toward the end of the seventh century A.D., at a time when South India was agitated by religious conflicts and political instability.

However, after «scheduling conflicts» forced Smith's departure, Jamie Foxx ended up as the star of one of the year's most talked about films.

By the end of the four - year conflict, the first in which aviation played a major role, the RAF had 27,000 officers and 260,000 other personnel operating more than 22,000 aircraft, but had seen high casualty rates.

Every year as summer comes to an end, I have a deep inner conflict when it comes to the topic of pumpkin.

College fans never settled on where the 11teen - year senior ended up on the Elite / Terrible scale, and Ohio State fans have always seemed even more conflicted than the rest of us.

While divorces are sometimes preceded by years of angry or violent conflict, divorce also ends many marriages that had both up and down sides.

In recent times, the 700 - year - old chamber has been mired in conflict and embarrassment over an expenses scandal that ended the careers of dozens of lawmakers in the prelude to last year's general election.

The intention of the convention parliament in 1689 was to put an end to the conflicts of the preceding seventy years (interrupted by the reign of Charles II).

However in periods of sustained conflict with other ruling classes, notably the War of the Spanish Succession of 1700 — 1715 and the Seven Years War of 1756 — 1763, the predatory policies of the Whigs resulted in overtaxation and overstrain of the economy during which the Tories would rise in influence in order to bring the war to an end.

For the past four months the Guardian has joined English Defence League demonstrations, witnessing its growing popularity, from protests attracting just a few hundred hardcore activists at the end of last year to rallies and marches which are bringing thousands of people on to the street — and into direct conflict with the police and local Muslim communities.

As part of his open - ended campaign to reform state government, Cuomo proposed to create an independent entity to conduct the redrawing of legislative and congressional lines, a process that happens every 10 years and which has historically been controlled by the unbelievably conflicted majority parties in each house of the state legislature.

Flynn ended up with the case last year after Niagara County District Attorney Caroline A. Wojtaszek requested the case be transferred from her jurisdiction because of a conflict of interest.

The deal provides a path to ending their conflicts of nearly four years over Kiryas Joel's two land annexation attempts and supports Kiryas Joel's initiative to politically separate from the Town -LSB-...]

The deal provides a path to ending their conflicts of nearly four years over Kiryas Joel's two land annexation attempts and supports Kiryas Joel's initiative to politically separate from the Town of Monroe by forming a new town.

However, Britain's success in the conflict saw Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government surge back to the top of the opinion polls, and her position was strengthened further by the end of the year as the recession ended and more voters had faith in her economic policies.

Also of major interest, the team notes, is that the sudden collapse of the nearby Guge kingdom of western Tibet (ruins shown) around 1620 C.E. — which had previously been ascribed to military conflicts — occurred near the end of the region's driest 3 decades in the past 5700 years.

The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.

The eleven years that have passed since the end of the most recent conflict have not been long enough to develop a robust public health infrastructure, he noted.

I've found several conflicting estimates of how much muscle you can expect to lose, with a high end of 1 - 2 % per year starting in your fourth decade (from this paper).

BLACK HAWK DOWN Grueling and respectful, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (based on Mark Bowden's Pulitzer Prize - winning articles on the Somalia conflict of several years ago) begins with thirty minutes of character introduction and ends with two hours of the Omaha Beach sequence from Saving Private Ryan.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

After years of bloody conflict, the leaders of two rival Arab kingdoms reluctantly agree to end the fighting.

The end of the school year is a time of conflicting needs.

A seventeen - year - old student dutifully learning her country's history according to this framework would likely end up viewing the United States as a place of conflict and inequality, with minimal understanding of the dreams it has fulfilled, the problems it has striven to solve, the world catastrophes it has averted, and the example it has set.

This is a Year 10 topic in Northern Ireland and covers the long, medium and immediate causes of the First World War, the main events and how the conflict ended.

Thirty - odd years after the end of the Vietnam War, books about it continue to appear, reflecting the hold that wrenching conflict still has on America's collective memory.

In schools that achieved a high functioning recess, teachers and principals agreed that by the end of the year, recess offered more opportunities for student engagement, conflict resolution, pro-social skill development, and emotional and physical safety.

But the end - of - year calm belies a bruising conflict.

In fact, Sutherland test drove the car for more than 90,000 miles during the War years, conscious of how important it would be for the marque once production resumed after the conflict had ended.

Having brought an end to the thousand - year conflict between dragon and man in the north, the Warrior of Light and his comrades prepare to liberate Ala Mhigo, a land conquered by the Garlean Empire twenty years ago.

«At the end of the year, we'll introduce an exciting new storyline and multiplayer gameplay — all leading to an explosive conflict with new characters to meet and planets to explore in the new year.»

Spanning the years 1979 — 92, it features approximately one hundred artists» works, which are grouped into four thematic sections, each addressing a different area of cultural conflict: «Gender Trouble,» «Democracy,» «Desire and Longing,» and «The End Is Near.»

He works with arms recovered in 1992 at the end of the sixteen - year conflict that divided the region.

From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world including the first to be documented by a camera.

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

«I am outraged by this law that bullies the rights of association and the individual right to protest that was adopted with the goal of putting an end to the conflict rather than focusing on the problem and settling it,» said Nathalie Belley, a solo practitioner and a litigator with 20 years of experience who travelled from Chambly, a city about 25 kilometres southeast of Montreal to attend Monday's march.

To be fair to me, I had a reasonable idea of the convoluted causes of the conflict from reading Margaret MacMillan's «The War That Ended Peace» (still, that was only a couple of years ago), but not much about the actual fighting.

Those higher conflict families are the folks who end up in years long litigation, running up many tens of thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of dollars in attorney fees in the process.

You must either have found that your marriage is unsupportable due to discord or conflict between your personalities that has destroyed the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and which is beyond any hope of reconciliation, or you must have been living separately without cohabitation for at least three years.

In other words, children are particularly at risk when low - conflict marriages end in divorce.24 In a twenty - year study, Alan Booth and I found that the majority of marriages that ended in divorce fell into the low - conflict group.

Research by Dr. John Gottman — who spent sixteen years studying what makes marriages thrive and fail in his «love lab» at the University of Washington and who famously possesses the ability to predict with over 90 % accuracy whether a couple will end up divorcing based on watching them interact for just 15 minutes — found that happy couples don't necessarily have less conflict in their marriage than unhappy ones.

At the tail end of the year a federal district court blocked enforcement of the provision citing potential conflict with the ACA.

Wallerstein and Kelly's ground breaking research in the 1980's (and scores of research since) show that parents» failure to stop fighting and end their high conflict relationship is the central cause of children's poor adjustment five years after divorce.

While divorces are sometimes preceded by years of angry or violent conflict, divorce also ends many marriages that had both up and down sides.