Sentences with phrase «great war with»

Charlie Smith London is marking the centenary of the beginning of The Great War with an exhibition of four European artists.

Battlefield 1 Revolution lets you jump into The Great War with epic team - based multiplayer battles and discover a world at war through the campaign with War Stories.

After EA and EA DICE pulled back from modern warfare in favor of exploring the Great War with Battlefield 1, Sledgehammer Games and Activision decided to go along a similar route, returning to the war that placed the long - running franchise on the map with Call of Duty: WWII.

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.

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 result is that this third generation, now moving into the ranks of power in North Korea, has a greater understanding and interaction with the West compared to their parents, who came of age at the height of the Cold War.

Five years into the PlayStation 2's existence, it had three great «Grand Theft Auto» games, with «God of War 2» still on the horizon.

I've done war movies but that doesn't... Because they're always loaded with drama and conflict and all the things that make drama great.

Jim Scott came up with a great idea during a visit to the office of a friend who worked at PepsiCo — putting plastic figurines of characters from popular TV shows and movies, including Stars Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney, on top of a bottled beverage.

He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence — even describing AI as «the greatest risk we face as a civilization» while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their disagreement on the subject.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

So while no one wants a trade war, a great many companies quietly agree with measures that might hopefully lead to a more level playing field for business in China and an end to vast theft of IP.

I would not exclude another LTCM style episode of systemic risk given the risk of unraveling of highly leveraged carry trades and the end of easy liquidity: triggers could be a disorderly move of the US dollar, perhaps following trade war threats to China, leading to a 1987 - style stock market crash; or MBSs interacting with a housing slump and the hedging activities of GSEs; or greater corporate distress or a Ford / GM entering into Chapter 11 triggering a massive sell - off in the murky, non-transparent and untested credit derivatives.

In the high - profile tussle for 6,000 wireless patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks, Google kicked off the tug - of - war with a stalking horse bid of $ 900 - million — far greater than anyone expected.

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).

Disney's interest made perfect sense: it owns some of the most - loved properties on the planet, from original Disney characters to Star Wars to Marvel (great toy material); was already in the toys business; and despite a trimming - down of internal game studios, still had Avalanche Software, an experienced game developer with a lot of talent.

Explore why a focus on compliance - driven security risk programs can put entities at a great disadvantage in dealing with these challenges — and what's needed to implement a more war - minded approach to battle the evolving threat landscape.

I guess we ought to be grateful that the great religious wars in Europe are behind us, and we only have these relatively minor problems to deal with (excluding of course the attack by Muslim extremists on the twin towers).

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Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

Sean McMeekin's July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books) lays primary blame on Austria - Hungary; Christopher Clarke's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Harper) and Max Hastings» Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Knopf) spread the responsibility around, with both Clarke and Hastings assigning Wilhelmine Germany the decisive role amidst a desperately inept performance by the Great Powers.

The more recent phase of bachelorhood, sustained by the libertinism of the American sexual revolution, sprang forth with the great wealth showered upon Americans after World War II and was, to an astonishing degree, the creation of two well - published sex zealots, Alfred Kinsey and Hugh Hefner.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

' Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation Of peace forevermore; Till, with the vision glorious, Her longing eyes are blest, And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.

With the Great War as backdrop, the great culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democGreat War as backdrop, the great culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democgreat culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democracy.

Before the nineteenth century, poverty was generally thought of as a destiny, a fate, one of the great scourges of mankind, along with famine, wild beasts, epidemics, war, earthquakes.

But if any action, provided it be the «communal action of men,» legitimizes violence, then we shall have to put up with a great many wars fought by enthusiasts who completely disregard the authorities.

In France, before the Second World War, a great many people sided with the Nazis.

Adams's great enthusiasm for virtue during the Revolutionary War turned to skepticism and a reliance on interest in the following decade.25 Hamilton was never more than mildly intoxicated with the idea of virtue and rapidly became the greatest theorist of the interest - conception of the Republic.26 Though most in the founding generation kept some balance between the two sides, there was a perceptible swing toward interest by the end of the 1780s.

Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence — together with all the words that circulated anxiously during the parlous years under the Confederation Congress — which rose to a great flood in the period 1787 to 1790 in....

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

I looked at myself in the mirror with great glee and screamed at the top of my lungs, my war - cry.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

The starting point for this cyclical argument coincided with the Great War, as the years from 1914 to 1920 witnessed the emergence, the peak, and the collapse of Wilsonian idealism» an internationalism quite self - conscious in its moral assertiveness, in distinction from the Realpolitik internationalism of Theodore Roosevelt.

«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.

But this war is also a great opportunity for the supporters of the nation - states with Christian roots.»

The celebrated «greatest generation» of World War II produced the architects of Cold War «containment,» who were vindicated almost a half century later with the end of «the evil empire.»

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

According to Hal Lindsey, writer of The Late Great Planet Earth, with Mr. Reagan's approval he gave a talk to Pentagon strategists on nuclear war with the Soviet Union (ibid.).

As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion!!

The people from whom Jesus came were continually at war and able to describe it with great genius.

Looking at America and the race problem he says: «America can demonstrate that justice, equality, and cooperation are possible between white and colored people «21 Mr. Wright makes the important point that the belief in the inevitability of a great evil, such as war, will itself contribute to man s inability to deal with that evil.

It is conventional to say at this point that we have greater technological capabilities than we have social wisdom to deal with the complexities of the human factors involved in the problems of war, race, and the decay of the cities.

It is filled with predictions of wars by great world powers, such as Babylon.

The great Deceiver would have the believers in Abraham's promise needlessly war with each other.

The crowning irony of this irony - filled era Marty effectively saves for the book's climax: this age filled with ecumenical rhetoric was also a great age of civil religion; hence with World War I, warfare became the great ecumenical event.

This book was especially helpful in that it provided great statistics, details, and quotes about how Christians have wrongly supported warfare, and how war is filled with great evil.