Sentences with phrase «from peacetime»

Let's demand equally strong leadership and action from our peacetime government in order to protect everything we love.

The VISA program enables a seamless, time - phased transition from peacetime to wartime operations.

Not exact matches

Justice Douglas noted that individual privacy concerns were protected by a series of express Constitutional provisions, like the Third Amendment's prohibition on quartering soldiers during peacetime, the Fourth Amendment's right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure, and the Fifth Amendment's right against self - incrimination.

If war were truly discontinuous with politics, then the aims in war would be different from the aims of politics in peacetime, and recourse to war would entail an abandonment of the goods of politics.

We don't shy away from expecting people to live with a wartime mentality, not a peacetime mentality.

Changes regarding the importance and satisfaction of needs from the retrospective peacetime to the wartime due to stress varied significantly across cultures (the US vs. the Middle East).

Wilson (1998 - 2002) fought a gallant rear guard against Blairite politicisation which Turnbull (2002 - 05) continued., O'Donnell (2005 - 11) oversaw the transition from Blair to Brown and the first peacetime coalition since the 1930s and finally Heywood (2012 to the present) motivated the coalition and oversaw two referendums.

Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley, the academic authors of The British General Election 2010 (the first such volume not written or co-authored by David Butler since 1951) conclude that this was «a landmark election», confirming the importance of multi-party politics, so different from the bipolar 50s, and bringing about the first peacetime coalition since the fall of Lloyd George in 1922.

The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than # 40,000 of taxpayers» money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners.

Directed by Britain's Simon Curtis with a «Masterpiece Theatre» sensibility for accurately reproducing an era in cars, clothes and home furnishings, Goodbye Christopher Robin sprints comfortably along from Milne's harrowing World War I service in the trenches through his difficult adjustment to peacetime, his sometimes fraught relations with Daphne and his retreat to the woods where the muses eventually whispered like the wind in the tree branches.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

My starfish from that last peacetime summer on Norderney.

The bill was an attempt to stabilize the economy as we moved from wartime to a peacetime environment.

She left Vietnam during the final year of the war in 1975 before finding a home as a political refugee in the U.S. Lê received an MFA from Yale University in 1993, and between 1994 and 1998 she made several trips back to Vietnam to discover and photograph her native country in peacetime.

There are many and significant risks to a military in peacetime unrelated to attack on the nation, from petty acts of mere theft like those of contractors who inflate military costs with illegitimate charges to the many hazardous materials the armed forces handle and store in the routine performance of their preparedness.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

The regime's Reconnaissance General Bureau, which directly reports to Kim Jong Un, handles peacetime cyber operations from espionage to network disruptions and employs an estimated 6,000 officers, according to a 2016 report from the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.