Sentences with phrase «fighting a war»

That can be difficult to address, as anyone who has fought a war over the thermostat can attest, but sometimes it's as simple as opening the windows.

He loved his son Philip and fought a war to provide him with a bright future, but he had trouble unwinding and spending quality time with his family.

At times, my body won the battle but I kept fighting the war.

After his native Bangladesh fought a war to become independent, Abed established BRAC (originally Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) to aid the rural poor, including 10 million returning refugees.

So decide whether you have time as an entrepreneur to be fighting a war.

While the terrorist attacks in France have dominated the headlines this week, advocates for free speech are fighting a war on multiple fronts.

When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.»

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.

It stands to reason that Trump would seek an aggressive attorney, since all of his other moves in the last week indicate a decision to fight a war against Mueller, rather than seek a negotiated path.

«From the outside looking in, Travis seems to want to fight wars instead of win battles.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

One way or another — near - war, fight a war, win a war or especially when a side «loses» a war — it's not good for the dollar.

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 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.

«I'm not a warmonger, but the best way to be sure you have to fight a war is if everybody knows you are incapable of defending yourself.»

Now people have fought wars in the name of Christianity (the Crusades), but they did not have the truth, they were fighting under a highly distorted view of Christianity that also allowed torture for heresy and taught that works will get you into heaven.

There are parents who object to the «Battle Hymn of the Republic» because they either see it as «religious» in nature, or because they are from south of the Mason - Dixon line and are still fighting the War of Northern Aggression.

Well I guess in the future we fight wars with robots, because GOD is making man to man lovers to keep populations in check so mother Earth can breath...

It would be a lot easier than fighting wars for it.

And, from a practical viewpoint, with the economy in the tank, unemployment out of limits, and us fighting a war that never had a possible solution, anything a couple of people can do to make themselves happy is none of anyone's business and, as far as I am concerned, OK.

I pay taxes that are used to fight wars I don't believe are just.

I do not know of a single adult human being that has given their life to the Tooth Fairy, seen the Tooth Fairy, thinks there is a Tooth Fairy, prays to the Tooth Fairy, given new life by the Tooth Fairy, given hope by the Tooth Fairy, lived by the law of the Tooth Fairy, fought wars with a Fairy banner held high and last but not least Stalin, Mao and Poll Pot felt no need to eliminate and persecute those who held tight to the Tooth Fairy.

No big deal for me, but I do worry about my fellow Americans who I have fought wars for, done public service for, and «care» about — because I am a christian and an American.

Presidents and Supreme Court Justices, like Kings and Emperors, want to be obeyed; they want the people, without resistance, to pay their taxes and obey their laws and fight their wars, even where those people supported a different leader or disagree with a particular policy.

Fighting those wars Man attempts to ensure his God is on his side.

It started in the name of defeating communism without ever actually fighting a war, and has progressed to where we are at today.

How insulting to us they owe us, not the islam community it's been our young children that died and fought this war.

They condoned slavery, they stoned people to death (if you think that is better than slavery you should read up on it), they fought wars, and committed atrocities.

And honestly, I would — as my ancestors have — fight wars for you to have the right to believe whatever you want.

Perhaps they can explain how what they know now will allow them to fight wars more effectively (when they have to fight wars), make policy with fewer illusions, and avoid the mistakes common to our most recent presidents.

Imagine that no one ever fought any wars and science was free to advance without bound.

It had recently fought a war with....

Science isn't fighting a war against religion.

Would rather spend money on fighting wars than on supporting our fellow man.

Religion is fighting a war against science for some unknown reason.

Never got drafted.Never fought a war and never created any industry.

We fight wars, commit genocide, and are quick to demonize those are not in our group to justify denying them rights, power, and resources.

So one must sadly and repentantly fight wars for the sake of peace.

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

'»» One can just hear the envious Saudi woman wondering to herself, «Why can she be ordered to leave her husband and children and go thousands of miles away to fight a war and take showers with men and maybe get killed, and I can't?»

God is fighting a war of faith in the spirit world.

After fighting a war at a high emotional pitch, they discovered that all their idealism and good intentions were scoffed at as unrealistic.

The crusaders were fighting a war of man by man in the natural world.

My ancestors were not slave owners, but they fought a war to protect their neighbors who were.

We fought a war in the 1940's against mad men / women who played god and determined who had the right to live and die.

The challenge facing U.S. policymakers in the post-Vietnam period is to fight wars to defend perceived U.S. interests while limiting U.S. casualties.

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

Few Episcopalians are committed enough to go out and fight a war over Episcopalianism.

Nobody fights wars over principles of math, countries fight wars over what they think god wants.