Sentences with phrase «harder than the war»

Few bands today are working harder than The War on Drugs, and few are reaping more astonishing rewards.

Not exact matches

First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.

I am open to the possibility of their being an omnipotent super being (if for no other reason than because I can't prove there isn't one) however, if one were to present him or herself to me I think I'd have a hard time respecting this omnipotent being that has had the power to prevent wars, protect the innocent, and create a better life for all, but chooses not to.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Also slighted in «The American Bible» are more recent voices, since it is harder to generate a vast commentary tradition for a work from the 1990s or 2000s than for one published during the revolution or the Civil War.

It would not surprise me that their official version of this biscuit was more like hard - tack, as they did have to use it for rations in a war - zone closer to Hell than almost any other, and supply lines which mostly were inoperable.

The mommy wars have been harder than almost all of the challenges I've faced parenting.

If this is not enough, the decade - long war may have produced a breed of Taliban who are believed to be much harder and harsher than their older lot when it comes to the rights of women, ethnic minorities and religious dissidents.

Khojasteh, who was born in Iran, and moved to the U.S. with his parents after the Islamic Revolution and during the early years of the Iran - Iraq War, says he and his wife, Anjella, also a child of immigrants from Iran, «are blessed to be products of that long - talked - about «American Dream» — raised by parents with nothing more than hard work, determination and a dream to provide their children as much possibility as possible.»

After a prolonged air war, during which Spitzer spent more than $ 1 million of his own cash on ads in response to a hard hitting campaign by 1199 and its hospital association partner, the Legislature turned back the bulk of the then - governor's Medicaid cuts.

Nowhere did those shorn locks fall harder than in Leominster, Massachusetts, which had been the country's comb capital since before the Revolutionary War and which was now the cradle of the celluloid industry, much of it devoted to combs.

At a time when hundreds of billions of dollars each year veer to war rather than peaceful development, and when media attention is riveted on the U.S. financial crises, it is hard to raise even a few billion dollars for desperately hungry people.

The Mighty Saber simulation was a sobering acknowledgment of many experts» belief that an attack on U.S. soil is more likely than ever — yet tracing responsibility would be far harder than it was during the Cold War, when the chief threat was annihilation by the Soviet Union.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

War, the Game has stripped away the deep complexity typical of the real - time strategy game and left the player with a simple - to - learn, hard - to - master global dominance game that allows the armchair general to concentrate far more on the actual strategic planning and implementation of battle than on the logistics that support them.

That might be a hard task, drumming up sympathy for the genocidal space Nazis of the Star Wars universe and establishing a new hero who wants nothing more than to crush the Rebellion and avenge the Emperor.

Since Hepburn and her then - husband, producer Mel Ferrer, who joined her on the project, were good friends with English director Terence Young (the director of three of the first four James Bond movies), whom Hepburn had allegedly met more than two decades earlier while she treated him as a nurse in the Netherlands during the Second World War, they lobbied hard for him to get the gig, even though Jack Warner initially wanted Carol Reed in the director's seat.

«Undoubtedly the darkest film in the series, it goes hard and heavy on its subject matter, becoming more of a war movie than something you'd expect from a bunch of children's novels.»

Its 56.4 % drop is much harder than say The Avengers -LRB--50.3 %) and Black Panther -LRB--44.7 %), but better than Avengers: Age of Ultron -LRB--59.4 %) and Captain America: Civil War -LRB--59.5 %).

That aside, with space war and aliens, this is much harder science fiction than the relatively relatable, grounded stuff of «The Hunger Games,» and it may be trickier to capture the right demographics, especially as the book isn't a recent bestseller.

The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first few «Die Hard» movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and video games.

It's hard to read it as anything other than an apologia for neo-conservatisim and a justification for the Iraq War.

This generation has not had to go through a depression, hard times, a world war, or anything collectively to give them a different perspective on life, other than that to which they were born.

As of 1965 there was little hard evidence that the young women of the sixties wanted and intended to have fewer children than their older sisters who married after the war and during the fifties.

It appeals to a wider audience than a hard - core game like Gears of War.

More broadly, God of War is a hard pivot to something more mature, something where Sony Santa Monica explores the character of Kratos on a deeper level than has been touched on in previous games.

You'd be hard pressed to find a game that looks better than God of War on any platform right now.

While the tone of the Ratchet and Clank games has always been pretty lighthearted and witty, I can't stress enough how pulling off truly clever and well timed humor like this game does is light years harder than writing Oscar bait war dramas like Mass Effect.

«It's hard to believe Microsoft exclusives like Gears of War 4 can look so good and run so smoothly on a box that costs less than half of what you'd pay for a high - end gaming PC.»

Those weaned on Ninja Gaiden or God of War may prefer to head straight for the hardest difficulty settings, but while you can unleash combo after combo, there's no ability to chain your attacks meaning that brutal hack and slashing (in conjunction with a lot of blocking) gets the job done more often than not.

It definitely resembles God of War more than Dead Space, mostly because its hard to get an idea of the atmosphere and what that will feel like, something that Dead Space did very well.

If you like your explorations in post-nuclear war Russia to be harder than hard nails, where there's no HUD and enemies are that little bit more aggressive, well, you're going to need to pony up for a pre-order of Metro: Last Light because it won't be available in a standard copy of the game.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since the original Gears of War released on Xbox 360, less than a year after the console's release.

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EA have announced a brand new game set in the Star Wars universe - a third person action game being developed by none other than Respawn, the guys who brought us Titanfall, and are currently also hard at work on Titanfall 2.

The moon landings were spurred by cold war rivalries and Rees said the energy challenge would provide its own motivation: «I find it hard to imagine anything more inspiring for engineers than to provide clean energy for the world.»

Obviously, saying that more efforts should be made to avoid nuclear war at all costs is not a hard sell, but it's scary to think that more than 50 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (which was a secondary target - it was supposed to be Kokura) we're still discovering new downsides to these weapons.

After the previous events in the series — the last of which started with Kratos storming Mount Olympus and ended with him killing almost the entire Grecian pantheon, culminating with Zeus himself — it's hard to imagine how the new God of War could go bigger than that.

God of War looks like it's trying a bit too hard to be like The Last of Us (even more so than Days Gone), what with its third - person perspective and interactions with a young character.

It's hard to believe Microsoft exclusives like Gears of War 4 can look so good and run so smoothly on a box that costs less than half of what you'd pay for a high - end gaming PC.