Sentences with phrase «great war leaders»

Then again, US voters have twice in the last forty years been convinced that highly decorated war heroes were cowards, while their opponents who had themselves managed to avoid serious military service were great war leaders.

From the book jacket: In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.

In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.

When Clementine Churchill tried to comfort her husband after his trouncing at the polls in 1945 by telling him it was perhaps a blessing in disguise, the great war leader retorted that it was a very effective disguise.

Not exact matches

For context, I had lunch with the greatest leader in America the other day, Frances Hesselbein, and asked her about World War 2.

Often regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders in modern history, Churchill would overcome immense obstacles to eventually lead the British people to victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany in World War II.

For this reason, great leaders wage war on their mind so it's open to the flow and keeps up with the creativity of the present opportunity on the line.

The results were so disastrous that the trade war prolonged the Great Depression, contributed to the rise of Nazis and other fascist leaders, and sank US exports by 61 % from 1929 to 1933 before being repealed in 1934.

Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist.

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

Just war theory was expounded so that political leaders can discern when and how war can serve the greater end of peace; it is not a formula but a framework for judgment.

Following World War II, there was a great surge of church life and church building that momentarily mesmerized church leaders who saw a new golden age emerging on the horizon.

On the other hand we have seen a great (and more successful) national leader say, while war still raged: «With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.»

Since the end of World War II, Christian leaders have strongly endorsed human rights and called for greater commitment to international institutions.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

In the years immediately before the war, their great leader, Samuel Davies, had led the fight to gain at least toleration for all Churches dissenting from the State establishment.

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Countries in Europe, in contrast, which he leaned on U.S. military protection via NATO in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.

Wellington and Nelson were great military leaders and even Churchill was respected as the man for the particular crisis of the 2nd World War.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

But the greater part of the viciousness of the ugly Blair - Brown civil war was sourced in the Scotsman's consuming and utterly unreasonable resentment that he was not the leader.

During the war he repeatedly feuded with other Labour leaders, and with Churchill, on matters great and small.

Once again, Hollywood goes to great lengths to tell us what we already know: Dialogue is preferable to war; violence is bad and leaders let us down by resorting to it.

Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned speech.

At a time when a virtual war on women has rocketed to the front lines of the great American culture wars, it's a stunning indication of exactly how out of touch with reality are those who would be our leaders that The Hunger Games books have been so wildly successful.

Starring Robert Ryan as a platoon leader dedicated to saving his men, who are trapped behind enemy lines, and Aldo Ray as a gruff, ferociously competent veteran who only cares about rescuing his shellshocked commanding officer, it's a stark, intimate film set during the Korean War and stands with Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet as one of the greatest films about the soldier's experience.

Solo: A Star Wars Story follows the story of Solo, the captain of the Millennium Falcon and one of the great leaders of the Rebel Alliance.

«as security guard of the system, as consistent advocate for the transformation of the country into industrial society managed from united centre, as leader of the country that faced a great war in the nearest future.»

Throughout the history school curriculum from William the Conquer to present day, history teachers have asked their students what makes a great leader in both peace time and war?

In the opening pages of the second and final volume of Lewis» masterful biography of the great African American scholar, intellectual, writer, and leader, World War I has ended and Du Bois, at age 52, is hard at work as the distinguished founding editor of the vastly influential journal of opinion, The Crisis.

With his most powerful prose yet, Lee shows us that war damages people far beyond any other kind of abuse life offers and that persons damaged by the losses, violence and displacement of war will go to great lengths to work out either retribution or salvation... If I could, I would make the book required reading for politicians, diplomats, world leaders and arms dealers, though many of them would possibly not get the message.

Over this period, the U.S. experienced the Great Depression, two world wars, the Cold War, massive corporate tax hikes, oil crises, stagflation, corrupt and incompetent leaders, the 9/11 attacks, countless scandals in leading corporations, the financial crisis and so on.

Governor Earle was not only a great Democratic leader and war hero, he was the first spokesman for the Doberman Pincher Club of America.

The Special Edition of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a 90 - minute extended version of the live - action digital series which will take fans back to the terrifying beginning of the Human / Covenant war, when the Master Chief inspired a young cadet who would eventually become a leader aboard the UNSC's greatest vessel ever: the UNSC Infinity.

Go head to head with history's greatest leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, inspire your nation and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.

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It involves waging wars, conducting diplomacy, discovering new technologies, and going head - to - head with some of history's greatest leaders.

Wage war, conduct diplomacy, advance your culture, and go head - to - head with history's greatest leaders as you attempt to build the greatest civilization the world has ever known.

One of my favorite games of all time is Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader for the Nintendo Gamecube, a game which featured a fantastic atmosphere, great controls and a very steep but fair level of challenge in it.