Sentences with phrase «great war times»

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Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.

Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.

Again, not a great time to be a Texan opponent of the Iraq War.

March 2003 was not a great time to be a Texan opponent of the Iraq War.

Here's the answer: every one of these very different companies creates products and services that address one or more of the most challenging issues of our time — such as hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — and makes a great profit.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has similarly reminded us that, although the Smoot - Hawley Tariff did not cause the Great Depression, the resulting international trade wars played a critical part «in preventing a recovery in trade when production recovered.»

last time we have some phony claiming a mission from God we got into two wars, one under false pretenses costing thousands of american lives, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression and the most divided this country has ever been.

The Second Great Awakening caused a proliferation of abolitionist groups that worked to end slavery in the U.S. around the time of the Civil War.

That is one of the great reasons God asked Israel to go to war against other tribes at times.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

And positively ominous is the time of it: just before or during the Great War.

The Century published a great many articles by Reinhold Niebuhr over a period of some 15 years, until Christianity and Crisis was launched by Niebuhr and associates at about the time America became involved in World War II.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

Putting the time - machine into reverse, we may find our first stopping place at the great upheaval of the sixteenth century which changed mediaeval Europe into the Europe that we know — or did know until the great wars once again moved the old landmarks.

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.

What happens not in «normal» times, when maybe America can muddle along, but in a time of great economic crisis, or in a time of war when the youth of another generation are asked to risk their lives for their country?

McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time when once again we are seeking a new understanding of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our sense of order, and our self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.

involves not the present but the future, at a time during and following a great race war.

War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliaWar and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliawar do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliawar is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.

Granted that present circumstances are different from those of World War I and the following decade, ministry today is also practiced in a time characterized by great unrest, by the specter of armed conflict, and by the tremendous problems of the poor, the aging, the emotionally disturbed.

His task is simplified when he chooses a subject visibly engaged in great public events of his time» wars, politics, social reform, for example.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

At that time the Methodist Protestant Church and the two great Methodist Churches, North and South, which had split at the time of the Civil War, reunited.

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The Pax Romana, which was established under Augustus and which for about two centuries, with the exception of some severe, localized rebellions, banished war to the borders of the realm, was of great advantage to the expansion of a faith whose spirit flourishes best in time of peace.

The Great War, however, in Italy as elsewhere, shattered the illusion that this and similar trends were «inevitable,» as had been widely believed only a short time before.

In the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of war.

I regard the war on the weak as the great social injustice of our time.

Thucydides» history of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books of all time.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

Twitter, which destroys such traditional filters as time and good sense, is proving to be a great facilitator of feuds, allowing the slightest animus to spring immediately into all - out declarations of war, 140 characters at a time.

Let's move ahead I don't see people going to war with bow and arrows those times are gone, the Roman Empire was great using bows and arrows but now it's guns and nuclear weapons but in our case we go to war with sticks and wipes hoping to defeat teams with Guns and nuclear weapons..

This would be great news for Arsenal FC and would give us Arsenal fans some great ammunition to fire at our counterparts on the red half of Merseyside in the banter wars over the summer and into next season, especially as it would be the second time in a couple of seasons that it happened and after the way they took the mickey about our transfer bid for Luis Suarez it would be ironic to say the least.

The great horses I have known — Man o» War, Native Dancer, even Tom Fool — all somehow communicated to their followers that sense of dedication to a great challenge every time they ran.

After the war, following one season in Division One, United had a nine - season run in Division Two, during which time the great John Charles made his debut, before being promoted in 1956 - 57.

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I'm going to install a shelf this week so we can display his #Lego Star Wars creations forever so it will be a reminder of a great bonding time for a greater cause with my son!

... 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.

Another sign requesting no Ukip leaflets stated: «At times like this it makes me think of what my grandad used to do to help make Britain Great and that was shoot Nazi's [sic] and Fascists during the war and if I read any more of your gibberish I feel I may wish to do the same because however you try to dress it up that's basically what you are.»

She instead suggests «what the plans did do to bring about the Great War was put additional pressure on the decision - makers by shortening the time in which decisions had to be taken.»

Decisions in time of war, a Finance Bill or any of the other great levers of power are issues are determined, and will continue to be determined, by the United Kingdom Parliament.

Imagine your country has been at war for a long time and people are ant to pull out or no one else wants to sign up for the army but they need to continue the war for the greater good.

A greater number of contests took place in 1934 in Carmarthenshire than at any time since the First World War.

At the core of the Einstein phenomenon lies his connection to a time when the whole idea of human reason seemed a grim joke in the wake of the so - called Great War.

The thousands of skeletons originally interred from the mid-16th through 18th centuries at the Bedlam burial ground are expected to provide researchers with unparalleled information about a formative time for London that included the English Civil Wars, Restoration, the last major plague outbreak and The Great London Fire of 1666.

Einstein's life spanned the terrors of the 20th century — two world wars, the worldwide Great Depression, fascism, communism, the Holocaust, the threat of nuclear war — and he was never less than steadfast and rational in his attention to the history of his time.

Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.

New preliminary research shows, for the first time, direct evidence of greater mitochondrial damage in Gulf War veterans.