Sentences with phrase «even by the war»

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Even farther back, the Post published the Pentagon Papers — classified documents on the war in Vietnam that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg — and it also published information it got from an administration source about the Watergate break - ins and the connection to President Richard Nixon.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

In January the International Monetary Fund said China's economic growth would top 6.6 percent in 2018, but it could now drop by as much as 0.5 percent if these tariffs are imposed — and it could slow even further if a global trade war truly heats up.

Even if such a step is seen as unlikely by most officials and observers, Pakistan's ability to shape the destiny of America's longest war is a reminder of how much leverage the country maintains at a time Trump is suspending hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance.

In recent weeks, the War on Gold, which is a subset of the broader War on Human Freedom, has sharply intensified, with massive, multi-billion dollar naked short price raids now being launched on a weekly and even daily basis by the criminal, state - sponsored price manipulators.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

There he said, among other things: «Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self - destruction.

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

Christian history has been marked by fierce argument, persecution of opponents, division and even religious wars.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

We're active in helping the homeless, we've declare war on child hunger in the Vegas valley, and we are showing our faith by our actions, even if imperfectly.»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Why don't you quit wasting time with your private flame war and contribute something that shows you can be more than just an angry fool when provoked by somebody you don't even care about.

Sometimes it is even noted — by people concerned more with accuracy than etiquette — that America and the West won the Cold War.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Certainly since World War II there has been an accelerating national effort to provide post — high school educational opportunity to everyone who shows even the least promise of profiting by it.

Aggressive war of Muslims against Western states is fully supported and even required by the Koran (there are a lot of war suras).

That we may, and ought, to resist, and even make war against those rulers who leap the bounds prescribed them by the constitution, and attempt to oppress and enslave the subjects, is a principle on which alone the great revolutions which have taken place in our nation can be justified.»

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

In a war that has no clear moral purpose, where it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe or soldier from civilian and where it is forbidden by one's superiors either to win or to lose — such a war impels even fairly decent people to commit atrocities.

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

On a deeper level, the sudden and dizzying changes taking place in the American economy, combined with the even more bewildering changes brought by the end of the cold war, foster radical social movements of every description.

If there were NO wars or genocides or murder done by religion you would have a claim but also we all know religion has probably killed even more than the ones you cited.

THEN they demonstrated that the US isn't at war with good Muslims by honoring their religion, even despite how much we hated this guy.

We don't value those traits anymore, war is now something more to be avoided rather than envied, and yet you still rationalize that even though you dislike war, that the god in the bible committing this war is justifiable just by the simple act that he's god?

(p. 111) So long as such an anti-war stance, with its own sort of heroic aspirations, does not, through the sorts of errors mentioned above, condemn or spit upon the more tangible heroic feelings stirred up by the real wars that inevitably will come (and thus demand, as C.S. Lewis put it, «long - faced» warriors even for just wars), and so long as it does not plug its ears against the geo - strategic and national considerations that must remain part of all politics, she would broadly endorse it, and would encourage all of us, whether theists or not, to yearningly quest for a world without war that we nonetheless know can never fully arrive.

They are not even greatly stirred by the prospect that we shall export our wars with our machines to other planets and re-enact on a larger scale the kind of history with which we have become too familiar.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Nearly as shameful, there is nothing in «Masters of War» that suggests that the Korean War or even World War II might be exceptions to the general case being made — that is, the attitude seems to be that even if they were necessary wars, they were necessarily conducted by bad men.

Eventually the leader's original accusations are revealed to be false — even fabricated — conjured to rally support for a war that, critics suggest, was motivated by politics and economics more than by a concern for security and justice.

Jesus himself is played by the great Max von Sydow (famous for The Exorcist and Shutter Island, and about to be famous for his role in the upcoming Star Wars relaunch), Charlton Heston as John the Baptist and even John Wayne -LRB-!)

I'm currently reading God At War by Greg and it's a good preview of where he was headed with this book even 20 years ago.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

In the immediate aftermath of the «war to end all wars,» Wilsonian idealism was displaced by the «normalcy» of Warren G. Harding and the rise of a strong isolationist current in American politics» a tide of public opinion so formidable that even as strong and crafty a president as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was compelled to tack carefully across it, even as he prepared the United States for its inevitable entry into World War war to end all wars,» Wilsonian idealism was displaced by the «normalcy» of Warren G. Harding and the rise of a strong isolationist current in American politics» a tide of public opinion so formidable that even as strong and crafty a president as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was compelled to tack carefully across it, even as he prepared the United States for its inevitable entry into World War War II.

In these religions there were wars in heaven before the creations... there was killing on earth by the first peoples God created... even Moses who got the ten commandments... of which the first said «Tho shall not kill» immediately upon receiving slaughtered thousand of his own for not immediately adopting them.

They believe there was a war in heaven before the earth was even created... that the first killing was done by the first people on earth... is this what we want?

After the war, radical Christians criticized the Church's cooperation by the ruling classes even as open - minded party members came to realize how repressive some Marxist regimes could be.

Even when there is no intent, subconscious or otherwise, to teach ethnocentrism and prejudice in our nation - state systems, the presentation of news (e.g. of damage done to people by earthquakes, avalanches, or wars) about distant peoples in a context of passive entertainment and commercial announcements as typically happens In western TV, radio and press fosters indifference.

The dream of the abolition of war is given us in the Bible, but the reason most Christians hesitate to accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the wars that are recorded and celebrated by God's people, all the wars that are authorized and even commanded by God.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

We are being led to war against Iraq by people who know very well that this war will lead to further wars and that even a $ 380 billion defense budget barely begins to pay for the first war.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

But here's a clue: almost NOBODY believes that killing is absolutely wrong, as some subset or other of the standard exceptions, ie acts during times of war, executions for at least some crimes, the unborn, euthanasia, even self defense are credited by almost everyone.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

If the Bible can help us get out of this egocentrism, it will be profoundly relevant — even if the point is made by stories about the bloody wars of Jehovah.

A war led by an American Christian president against a Muslim nation — even if most Muslim nations dislike that nation's regime — would he seen as a crusade against Islam.

The purpose is to «interdict enabling technologies and materials» — by implication, to wage war on Iraq for seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction even in the absence of an actual and imminent threat against the U.S.

Yet the basic war / peace confrontation has been given so little attention that its position within the international law of human rights has hardly been grasped by the general public or even by political leaders.