Sentences with phrase «invasion which»

The story was loosely based on the Secret Invasion comics series, and players were tasked with fighting against a Skrull invasion which began capturing the Earth's superheroes and gained their super powers.

He actually compares compound interest to a zombie invasion which is a lot of fun for people.

Katyn (Unrated) World War II saga about the fallout visited upon four Polish families waiting for word of loved ones following the Soviet invasion which led to the slaughter of thousands of soldiers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Apocalyptic Sci - Fi Available on DVD This apocalyptic action flick revolves around the daring exploits of a rag - tag team of Marines representing the last hope for humanity in the wake of an alien invasion which is decimating the planet.

«This is a damning condemnation of what was an unjustified invasion which we now know to have flouted international law.»

I don't recall the RCC taking a stand against the 2003 Iraq invasion which in terms of US lives has been much more expensive.

According to the historian Herodotus, it took Ahasuerus nearly four years to get ready for the invasion which he launched in 481.

Packed on top of that is a load of Fixer missions which focus on driving and are a blast, plus Privacy Invasions which have you hack into a small box via a basic pipe - laying hacking mini-game — which pops up quite a bit and can pop right back damn down — and invade someones home through a camera in their laptop, TV or even Kinect.

Not exact matches

Even with the invasion looking less likely, Nazi Germany continued to launch attacks on England — some of which would claim thousands of lives in and around London in a night — carrying out the Blitz from late 1940 to mid-1941, when Hitler redeployed his air forces to participate in the invasion of Russia.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

The request comes amid a bipartisan effort to limit U.S. involvement in the Saudi - led invasion of Yemen, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis.

The incursion was prevented by IDF troops, but it served as a catalyst for the army's ground invasion, which began later that night.

(Trump claims he was against the invasion of Iraq from the beginning, which is not true.)

To be fair, there have been a several times that markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led by Keating.

The move, which Denton confirmed on Monday via Twitter, will temporarily prevent Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, from collecting millions of dollars in damages he was awarded from Denton in an invasion - of - privacy lawsuit in May.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

Al Shabaab coalesced after the 2006 U.S. - backed Ethiopian invasion that overthrew the conservative - Islamist Islamic Courts Union, which had set itself up as a de-facto government amidst Somalia's ongoing stateless vacuum.

US diplomats assigned to Russia had to be trained by the US government on how to handle the escalating harassment, according to The Post, which was the Kremlin's way of retaliating against US sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

If you regard the idea of a store watching you shop as a privacy invasion, you might also want to steer clear of today's garden - variety grocery stores, which are themselves decked out with cameras for security purposes.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..

Regardless, you have not only the Crusades, but the Spanish Inquisition, George W.'s phony Iraq / Afghanistan wars, WWII, WWI, the European invasion and of the Americas and consequent slaughter of countless natives, all the «god» - ordained wars in the Old Testament in which Yahweh told Israel to go do «his» dirty work for «him», the KKK, the Salem «witch» trials, slavery in the US (and all of its ugly murders), etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. to contend with.

When the Assyrian invasion seemed about to overwhelm the whole kingdom, Isaiah steadied king and people with the assurance that it was God's will to give them a respite during which they might turn to Him, and that for this purpose He would protect Jerusalem from imminent destruction.

In Byzantium (which considered itself the true Rome), the Roman Empire had withstood the upheaval of migrations and the Islamic invasion.

It was because these events were so understood, that the little kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which grew out of the invasion of Palestine, made a fertile ground for the later prophetic teaching about God's revelation in history.

On the eve of the Gulf War, I preached a sermon in which I expressed my opposition to the imminent invasion.

The first Muslim invasion of India took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Walid (87 - 97; A.D. 705 - 15) who sent Muhammad Ibn Qasim on an expedition into Sind, the area which then included most of what is now the Punjab.

And elsewhere he wrote: «It seems to me that the point of origin of this invasion and envelopment of my being was the rapidly increasing importance which the sense of God's will was assuming in my spiritual life.»

He said something that no other candidate would say which was, in short, the military is for defense not unnecessary invasions or attacks.

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

«In a nutshell, it is Sir Cliff's case that the BBC's coverage of the search was an invasion - indeed a very serious invasion - of his privacy for which there was no lawful justification,» Mr Rushbrooke told the judge.

It is a «series of events» by which a war breaks out that will cause the invasion of Israel by the Land of Magog — modern - day Russia — and Persia — modern - day Iran — that will lead up to the «Battle of Armageddon'the appearance of the «Anti-Christ.»

This tremendous intellectual energy which was released under the protection of religion was brought to a disastrous end by the Mongol invasion in the seventh century (thirteenth century AD.)

Ethical concerns relative to invasion of privacy are increased as computer data banks, computer banking, and shopping make it possible for others to retrieve private information which has been stored.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

Archeology has only been able to confirm historical events back to the phrase «The House of David» which means that there's nothing to back up claims about Adam, the Flood, Abraham, Moses, the Exodus, or the invasion of Canaan.

I don't see their esteem for those in the military (which includes reverence for those who died) to lead to a desire for the bombing of Syria or the invasion of Costa Rica or whatever Hayes imagines.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

If the Kojiki is not completely dependable as to specific historical facts, it probably preserves more accurately the flavor of the Japanese culture which antedated the invasion of Chinese culture in the fifth century.

He supplies a vivid example by demonstrating that Locke's use of the phrase «an invasion of rights» (from which our own phrase «invasion of privacy» developed) grew out of an encoded form of discourse used by Shaftesbury and his fellow conspirators.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Arc.

a few history lessons; 1) «The Battle of Tours followed 21 years of Umayyad conquests in Europe which had begun with the invasion of the Visigothic Christian Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula in 711.

Among many «fact - finding» teams sent to the spot was one sent by the Orissa BJP unit, which after visiting the scene issued a statement where the killing was linked to «cultural invasion by the Christians» which led to tension.

In the suffering which followed from invasions by Assyrians, Babylonians, and finally by Romans, with an interlude in which there was a Greek hegemony under the successors of Alexander the Great, this Jewish religious faith was enriched and deepened.

But the shock of invasion revealed to men throughout the Mediterranean theater the inadequacy of that on which they had depended with such implicit faith.

For some considerable time they wandered about in what was probably the Sinaitic peninsula; then they began an invasion of Palestine, which was not too remote from their former haunts.

Thus, according to Schulweis, Whitehead conceives of a world in which «storms and barbaric invasions, in themselves admittedly destructive, may be seen as contributory values to the adventures of ever new and increased perfections» (EMG 58).

In the days before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials spoke of a «democratic domino effect,» by which the installation of a democratic government in Iraq would set off a wave of pro-democratic regime changes elsewhere in the Middle East.

the conviction runs through the New Testament that, in the faith which it records, a fresh, original creative invasion of the world by the living God had taken place.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D - Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.