Sentences with phrase «for war efforts»

Economy Structure: Planets possess stores of both radioactive and metals which are vital for war efforts.

She received the Medal of Honor for her war efforts and was the only woman ever to do so even today.

Episcopal Bishop Browning indicated that he was certain that the 80 percent polling support for the war effort in the U.S. amounted only to sentiment for the troops and not support for the policy.

G, I served over 27 years, nearly 5 years deployed to the Persian Gulf region for the war effort.

During the World War II era, hexane processing to extract oil from soybeans became commonplace to produce fuel for the war effort.

Along with Tennessee coach Robert Neyland, Wade was assigned to coach an Army all - star team against NFL teams to raise money for the war effort.

The majority of the administration staff at Highbury followed and even the stadium itself did its bit for the war effort.

During the war, the British had needed Indian troops, produce and financial support for the war effort.

For what it is worth, that evidence also convinced Congress (including many prominent Democrats) to vote for the war effort.

Co-operatives received minimal supplies and even management were often drafted, whereas business opponents were able to have even clerks declared vital for the war effort.

At the time, the government was seizing metal — «your faucets, your handrails, your brass railings» — for the war effort, said Casadio.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with conceiving the idea of daylight saving in 1784 to conserve candles, but the U.S. did not institute it until World War I as a way to preserve resources for the war effort.

They made acetone for the war effort using corn fermentation.

Spielberg makes you see and feel the Holocaust through the actions of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a Polish businessman who uses Jewish laborers to make pots and pans for the war effort.

A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.

Vera defies her old - fashioned parents and wins a place at Oxford, only to drop out to become a military nurse and do her part for the war effort; through her eyes, we witness the devastation and destruction of warfare on a personal, intimate and life - changing scale.

There's plenty of back - and - forth between the scriptwriting office and the ministry — of trying to create melodrama that functions as a narrative against the restrictions of ensuring that there's no negative connotations for the war effort (When the screenwriters try to fit the engine failure into the plot, the ministry demands that it be altered, lest anyone think that British engine manufacturing is inferior).

Albert spends most of the film's moving first act wailing about his precious Joey after it gets sold by his dad for the war effort.

It teaches lending using a book about Benjamin Franklin and facts about how the American colonies borrowed money from France for the war effort.

During the war, brass was in short supply in the United Kingdom, and it was recycled for the war effort.

Cheering her on, and goading her, are her sisters Norma and Fleurette - that is, when they aren't training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the stage.

An additional salvage operation during World War II recovered additional iron and brass for the war effort.

As consumerism took over the systems of mass production implemented for the war effort, artists came to terms with unprecedented levels of commodification and mechanical reproduction.

In fact, Tworkov told Edward Bryant at the time of his 1964 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of America Art, that de Kooning's influence on him was «actually strongest between 1940 and 1945,» when Tworkov gave up painting to work as a tool designer for the war effort.

In Britain during World War II for example there was a virtual frenzy of adopting scientific advances for the War effort.

The last time we needed a major energy transition, government helped most through regulation, creating the TVA so that we would have enough aluminum to build aircraft and an ablility to enrich uranium for the war effort.

I have always aspired to be a scientist, to push the envelope of knowledge past the mundane, but got drafted for some war effort that was a worthless waste or resources and lives on both sides.

Throughout World War II, REALTORS ® assisted the government in appraising and acquiring land and buildings for the war effort and in providing housing for the growing ranks of servicemen and their families.

Not exact matches

One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

«We support industry and government efforts to exclude all people using diamonds for criminal activities and financing war.»

For the US, bombing would focus on daytime raids against strategically valuable targets — factories, ports, military bases, and other infrastructure involved in the war effort.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

Donovan called Walter C. Langer, a psychoanalyst helping with the war effort, in for a meeting, and asked: «What do you make of Hitler?

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

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.

said the meeting had historic significance because «for the first time since the multilateral trading rounds began after World War II, a trade expansion effort has ended in failure.»

Basic economy is one prong of a broader effort by the largest U.S. carriers to bolster revenue from each seat flown a mile, a standard industry measure that has been battered for about a year, partly because of fare wars with discounters such as Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines Holdings.

But while the industry applauds the Trump administration's efforts to rebalance unfair, global trade relationships — and certainly the World Trade Organization's anti-dumping measures have been largely ineffective to date — protectionist policies like tariffs will disrupt the complex, global supply chains on which manufacturers rely and stoke the flames of a tit - for - tat trade war.

Witness their efforts to preserve and enhance the earth and the earth's resources, to take action against oppression, to demand human rights, just treatment for all, and an end to war.»

Had he survived the war, it seems likely that that cause of reconciliation would have been central to his efforts for a renewal of Christianity.

Pray for His love to descend upon the battlefields, so that understanding and enlightenment causes those who were harming families and communities to set down their instruments of war in favor of seeds and plows and bricks and mortar in an effort to rebuild.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

But for many more he was a traitor who disobeyed authority and undermined the German war effort.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.

Hindsight notes that the pact should have been linked with the minimal structure of world government which the League of Nations provided, and that it would have been more impressive had it been combined with measures for disarmament and with efforts to remedy the historic injustices which led to World War II.

In The Challenge of Peace, their 1983 pastoral letter, the bishops «identified as critical the need for arms control and disarmament, efforts to minimize the risk of «any war.»»

Early in the century «day nurseries» were provided for immigrant children, and day - care centers sprang up during both world wars to accommodate the children of women working to support the war efforts.