Sentences with phrase «founded by civil war»

Rawlins was founded by Civil War General John A. Rawlins in 1882 and oil drove the local economy for much of its early history.

Rawlins was founded by Civil War General John A. Rawlins in 1882 and oil drove the local economy for much of its early history.

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The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

It wasn't even there until 1840 — it was founded in the wake of the pretty anti-communitarian Cherokee removal that's part of our wonderful southern heritage — and it was devastated by the Civil War.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Darasalem (2000) Dir: Issa Serge CoeloInspired by the civil war in Chad, the film follows two childhood friends who join rebels in the countryside to find justice for their compatriots.6.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

In recent work, Caroline Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie and Molly Bauer find that the programmes increase the likelihood of civil wars by creating «loser» and «winner» groups.

What they found: War and civil unrest may spike by up to 56 percent between now and 2050, while acts of aggression — murder, assault, domestic violence — could increase by 16 percent.

The BAA had been founded in 1887 by an eclectic group of former Civil War officers, Boston Brahmins and local luminaries including the celebrated Irish poet and activist John Boyle O'Reilly.

Revolt and civil war among the Maya in 1221 CE, evidenced by archeological findings of burned buildings, led to Chichen Itza's decline and rulership over Yucatán shifted to Mayapan.

The executive order tosses a grenade into efforts to find safe havens in the United States for scholars displaced by the civil war in Syria and simmering conflicts in Iraq and Yemen.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

A young Civil War veteran named Jackson (Scott Eastwood) wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits.

The play, written by «The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, features an all - black, female cast and the 33 - year - old actress said she found the story of five women, who during the Liberian civil war in 2003 are trapped by rebel commander, an important narrative.

The last five films to cross the $ 1 billion milestone worldwide have been Disney releases, with «Beauty and the Beast» preceded by «Zootopia,» «Captain America: Civil War,» «Finding Dory» and «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.»

«Inspired by real events,» The Whistleblower visits Bosnia in the rubble - strewn aftermath of the Yugoslav civil war and finds power, corruption and liesnot just among the bribe - taking, uncaring local authorities but also the U.N. officials and American contractors assigned to train the Bosnians in the ways of democracy.

After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T'Challa returns home to Wakanda but soon finds his sovereignty challenged by factions within his own country.

Captain America: Civil War (PG - 13 for extended sequences of violence, action and mayhem) 13th episode in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series finds the Avengers split into a pair of adversarial factions, freedom lovers led by Captain America (Chris Evans), and a pro-government camp led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.).

This is The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola, an American Civil War drama, involving a fleeing Union soldier who finds haven in a prim girls» boarding school, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan, but more famously known as a troublingly brilliant film from 1971 by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page.

JCR: By the other hand, how do you feel remembering the challenged situation you found in rural areas of Somalia after your exile in Canada because the civil war of 90s?

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea» — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.

But, as slavery was the ongoing divisive issue since the founding of the Republic and until the American Civil War, privatization of public education by charter schools has been an ongoing issue of our day since charter school legislation of the 90s.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

Their courtship sounds equally daunting: Thomas, who played a significant role in the English Civil War, finds himself pursued by assassins sent to the New World from London, while Martha navigates the complicated world of a household servant.

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (HMH) When civil war breaks out in Nigeria, Ijeoma is sent away to safety and finds love — but with someone who is not only of a different ethnicity, but also another girl.

Anglet is convinced the murder and theft are connected, and she is secretly hired by a rich politician to find evidence, if she can do so before civil war erupts in the city.

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

After breakfast transfer to Nebaj where accompanied by a local guide Ixil Maya visit the Museum and House of Culture, here you will find exposed ceramic vases, rocks, historical documents, clothing, and an urn with the remains of victims of the civil war, weapons and other items.

William travels to Japan to find and retrieve someone that was taken from him by the game's antagonist, but on the way he ends up right in the middle of a Japanese civil war that has fractured the country between allegiances to several would - be rulers.

The protagonist finds himself caught up in a civil war led by a tyrannical ruler (voiced by the legendary Troy Baker).

Up there — once you dodged the lines for multiple Champagne bars and waiters zipping by with trays of hors d'oeuvres — antiques maven Axel Vervoordt could be found hawking Egyptian artifacts from the Ptolemaic period in one of the historic rooms, a room that already had a bunch of antiques permanently installed (albeit from the Civil War, not from 332 B.C.) And Paris's Galerie Chenel had on offer Roman busts from the reign of Hadrian (about 117 — 138 A.D.) in the range of $ 30,000 (about $ 32,700) a pop.

They will find remnants from the National Museum of Beirut, shattered and displaced by fifteen years of civil war, but nothing of their history.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

«Better Angels» features new paintings by Nashville artist Dane Carder, who uses Civil War - era images to investigate personal and universal issues, and find contemporary meaning within the historic source material.

Its militant protagonists find echoes in Perret's sculptures, which are also informed by the YPJ, a real - world female militia that has been fighting in the ongoing Syrian civil war.

The art form, in which natural and manufactured found materials are assembled into three dimensional structures, was used by artists such Betye Saar and John Outterbridge to produce complex objects that engaged issues including the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and the censorship of art.

Ngongo founded the OCEAN environment group in 1994, which exposed the impact of deforestation and monitored the plunder of minerals by warring factions during Congo's 1996 - 2002 civil wars.

Turabi's followers in Darfur, frustrated by their lack of political participation and representation, picked up arms and helped found JEM, starting yet another civil war.

Considering the millions of black people enslaved, and the huge numbers assaulted, tortured and / or murdered, including post-Civil War and post-Brown as part of the civil rights struggle, I find the glib comparison to a private religious school with a discriminatory behavioural policy (motivated by their religious beliefs) insulting.

It is the county seat of Ben Hill County and was founded after the Civil War by both Union and Confederate veterans.

Founded by pioneers in 1798, Bowling Green was the provisional capital of Confederate Kentucky during the American Civil War.

The ceiling and beams in a second guest room are reclaimed oak, and the bed by Room & Board has a custom - made headboard; an antique armchair, which belonged to Holland's grandmother, is covered in a wool by Holland & Sherry, and the portrait of a Civil War general was found in North Carolina.