Sentences with phrase «fight old wars»

Today, we're geared up to fight old wars.

It's very important not to fight old wars.

However, as often happens, the authorities - led on this occasion by Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England - were fighting an old war, not the one actually being waged.

It seems that opponents of high stakes standardized testing are fighting an old war; the old TAKS regime is gone and we should give the new system a chance to work.

Not exact matches

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

These types of monetary competitions are built around the very real understanding that nuclear armed nations can not afford to fight old - fashioned, kinetic wars with each other.

He was clear that wars (and by logical extension, public infrastructure and old - age pensions) always are paid for by the generation that fights the wars, builds the infrastructure or creates the output on which welfare - income transfer payments are spent.

The old saying that the military are always ready to fight the previous war fits like a glove to Wall Street strategists.

The way I see it, US woud have had over 70 million more Americans suffering, kids that fought old mens war, more jails filled with criminals and a troubled society than we see today...

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Kill not the old man who can not fight, nor young children nor women; and steal not the spoils of war, but put your spoils together; and quarrel not amongst yourselves, but be good to one another, for God loveth the doer of good.35

She wants to show me while my toddler and five - year - old are fighting over who gets to sit in the stroller and who gets to stand on the back of the stroller, which is a war of the purest possible attrition and principled fury, because each wants to be wherever the other currently happens to be.

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

In the latest skirmish in Australia's five - year - old milk war, some of the nation's most popular milk brands are heading to the Federal Court in a bitter fight over the rights to use the term «A2 protein» on their labels.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

As the name implies, psychological warfare goes after people's feelings and thoughts, and intentional psychological warfare is as old as war itself, dating perhaps to the first time a paleolithic hunter / gatherer donned the skin of a lion to frighten a rival group out of a fight for territory or food.

Having said this, AYD is of the view that the recent public outcry that has greeted the activities of small - scale mining in the country, and the subsequent knee - jerk and fire - fighting war on small scale mining has only reinforced the age - old problem of successive governments.

There were loads of the guys in RAR, old grey haired guys who were Spanish Civil War veterans who fought Oswald Mosley in the 40s.

Nothing, the war is being fought with the same old weapons, and the result is an almost complete resistance of the invisible «enemy».

150 years ago, Americans fought a bloody Civil War (1861 - 1865) over slavery, which ended in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the How Tinder Accidentally Exposed Society's Inherent Racism The five - year - old dating app shed light on an uncomfortable set of stereotypes.

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Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

Partially insane thanks to almost three decades» worth of radical fighting, Gererra is no longer the militaristic older brother that he was during the Clone Wars.

The film is set in a small California town, where Pepper Flynt Busbee (Jakob Salvati) is a lonely 8 - year - old boy while his father (Michael Rapaport) is off fighting in World War II.

Churchill's instincts are to stand up to the bullies and fight for Britain's existence; he is opposed by an old guard haunted by the brutality of the first World War, embodied by Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane), who argues for appeasement with the Nazi regime.

«If you're gonna fight a war, you got ta wear a uniform,» an old - fashioned sentiment mouthed by Captain America.

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

It's a sobering thought that old, ailing, often incapacitated men, fighting for power, led that war and won it, but it would have been nice to know what drew either side to where they stood.

Hell and Back Again (Unrated) Afghan War documentary toggling back and forth between the daily grind of a platoon fighting on the frontlines and the rehabilitation back in North Carolina of the Marine unit's 25 year - old sergeant who was evacuated after being shot in the hip.

Clive Owen (Closer, The Bourne Identity) takes center stage right after, as Dwight, who takes up the fight along with Old Town's prostitutes when a slimy cop gets iced, potentially starting a war between the city's competing factions should the police no longer offer their «protection».

This semi-autobiographical work follows 20 - year - old Ellen (Lily Collins), a young woman wedged between her warring birth mother Judy (Lili Taylor) and her stepmother Susan (Carrie Preston), with whom she lives while fighting a daily battle against her own body dysmorphia.

Written by Taylor Sheridan (Sons of Anarchy), Sicario focuses on whether the war on drugs is worth the fight at all, by focusing on the age - old theme of order v.s. chaos.

«As a teacher, I wanted the pupils to research, interpret and write «the lost story» of Old Wycliffians from our school, who fought in the World War One.»

Brendan Ind from Wycliffe School in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire was the outright winner with an incredibly moving entry, having researched and written about the lives of two Old Wycliffians who met at the school, grew up and later fought in the Great War.

He quit at the start of his senior year to go fight in World War II with his older brothers.

Her immigration status was precarious, her brothers fighting in the war, and a neighbor had dumped her at the door of a mysterious old man, a shoemaker the girl did not know, but who was the only person standing between this girl and an orphanage.

This is modern military fantasy with a twist - all the things Hawthorne and Poe etc wrote were true, some names were changed, and a group of old Craft families in America have been helping fight its wars since the founding.

When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope.

While the romantic narrator imagines a bucolic future in an old country house with children running through the dappled sunlight, her new husband plots to organize a revolution and fight a guerrilla war in the Catskills.

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen - year - old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war.

The oldest surviving animated film is an advertisement for Bryant & May matches from 1899 asking the audience to donate one guinea so that the company can give a free box of matches to every British soldier fighting in the Boer War!

My husband, Sal, is too old to fight in a war but signed up, anyway, right after Pearl Harbor.

A secret, centuries - old war has divided her kind, and there are only two options if the others find her - join the fight or die.

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They probably are also watching brick and mortar sales decline, and are seeing the returns go up as shelf space shrinks, and are less willing to fight a war against their readers and writers just to prop up old business partners.

Maryland Is Known As The The Old Line State From The Regular Line Troops Who Fought In The Revolutionary War.

You may visit the battlefields of Flanders, where so much of the heavy and destructive fighting took place, and the battlefields of the Somme including the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, housed within the town's old fortress.

Where the hell where my epic fight scenes with my hard - earned war assets and my old crewmates?