Sentences with phrase «large scale conflicts»

And why the Europeans did not although the losses from famine and the black death where huge, and then i did not even mention that some pretty large scale conflicts where being fought amongst Europeans in that time - period.

With two previous games giving players the chance to jump into large scale conflicts on the side of the Rebels or Empire, having the developers responsible for the Battlefield series of games seems to be a natural fit.

With two previous games giving players the chance to jump into large scale conflicts on the side of the Rebels -LSB-...]

Forgotten was the notion that while large scale conflicts might have scaled down, civil strife or ethnic violence has been a common visit across many countries, more so in Africa.

It's a large scale conflict resulting in restoration of Caliphate with pure Sharia - which in turn, if you look at history AND the fundamental premise behind Islamism, is anything but peaceful towards the rest of the non-Muslim world.

on PvP, separating players into discrete factions is a good way to foster team spirit and create the potential for large scale conflict.

«Skirmishes, clashes, special side missions, and larger scale conflicts can be engaged at the player's will as they venture through far — reaching lands, allowing for a sense of freedom of choice for the player previously unfelt in previous Dynasty Warriors titles,» Koei Tecmo wrote.

Skirmishes, clashes, special side missions, and larger scale conflicts can be engaged at the player's will as they venture through far — reaching lands, allowing for a sense of freedom of choice for the player previously unfelt in previous DYNASTY WARRIORS titles.

Not exact matches

The 50 - day conflict came on the heels of Operation Brother's Keeper, a large - scale counterterrorism crackdown in the West Bank prompted by the abduction and disappearance of three Israeli teenagers on June 12, 2014.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

Whitehead observes that religion and science have always been in conflict, and each has been in a state of continual internal development, but both should seek a large scale perspective based on mutual respect and toleration.

In the same way in dealing with the clash between permanent elements of human nature, it is well to map our history on a large scale, and to disengage ourselves from our immediate absorption in the present conflicts.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

Large - scale international conflict resolution efforts are much more likely to fail when civil wars contain more actors that can block an end to the war.

Tempting profits from large - scale sand trade spawns organized crime and international conflict.

Large - scale genetic studies have turned up nuanced and conflicting results about the genetic basis of autism and its myriad symptoms.

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

The team's conclusion: «Chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic, also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale.

Although Medicare and Medicaid are playing a role in health care payment and delivery reform innovation, it will be difficult to enact large - scale program changes because of the conflicting priorities of beneficiaries, health practitioners and organizations, and policy makers, according to an article in the July 28 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on Medicare and Medicaid at 50.

Thus, the policing as a conflict management mechanism seen among nonhuman primates might be a precursor for large - scale «police forces» that maintain normative behaviour in large - scale human societies.

Director Ridley Scott is best known for large scale alien encounters and gladiatorial conflicts, but here he proves just as adept at handling the subtle characterisation involved in an awkward (but loving) father - daughter relationship — as well as pulling off a complicated scam.

By comparing individuals» subjective interpretations and feelings (through interviews) with large scale data (in reports) and laws (outlined by human rights and Thai national laws), the research utilizes the triangulation approach to come up with a study that attempts to respect both the micro (individual) and macro (context) and therefore paint the human faces of displaced persons affected by factors beyond their control (conflict in Myanmar and Thai politics and law).

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Trump's plan will likely have a «net - widening» effect of unnecessarily bringing more students into conflict with police and school staff, students who are there to pursue future options in life, not to cause large - scale harm to the school community.

The economic realities of large - scale commercial breeding of pets are in direct conflict with the early - life physical, mental and emotional needs of an animal intended to become a member of someone's family, not to mention the lifelong breeding servitude to which these animals» parents are chained.

Large - scale PvP: Conflicts concern more than just simple skirmishes with players of the opposing factions.

Fortunately the current Arslan anime has taken that problem off of Koei's hands and provided a show with plenty of large - scale conflicts a player can fight through.

Playful in tone and less reliant upon the exploitative construct of the case - study scenario in such large scale video projects as Them, 2007, and Repetition, 2005, Artur Zmijewski's earlier videos stand in contrast to these somewhat over-determined provocations; while recent Zmijewski productions have adopted a nearly formulaic approach to positioning cultural difference and conflict, and thereby seem to codify the subject as «other» a priori — a risk that critic and art historian Hal Foster has insightfully called the «self - othering» of «the artist as ethnographer» — three earlier Zmijewski works engage a simpler, more agile approach.

To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond) combines a large - scale painting of a female figure with a reimagined interior of Sans - Souci Palace (1813) in northern Haiti, tracing conflicted histories and current political contexts of Hispaniola (the shared island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and America.

Known for her large - scale installations and sculptures which challenge the formal languages of Minimalism and Surrealism in order to expose a world characterised by conflicts and contradictions, the work of Mona Hatoum will be presented by Tate Modern this year.

This American author relied on great fields of color to evoke dramatic symbolic conflicts between man and nature, a confrontation designed to take place on a monumental scale of Still's large canvases.

This survey of Schnabel's career to date presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large - scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies — Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and his newest film Miral, which addresses the Palestinian - Israeli conflict.

The contemporary exhibition features expressive paintings by Brian Maguire and the large - scale colour photographs of Richard Mosse and Paul Seawright that share concerns with geopolitics and the experience of conflict.

Along with the series «Muted Situation» (2014), directions for listening to sound situations in a new way or perceiving the political qualities of sound itself, and a selection of works from the series «Sound Drawings» (2015 ---RRB-, the exhibition also features large - scale installations in which Young deals with conflicts and wars.

Architectures of Resistance debuts a series of large - scale canvases and works on paper depicting interior spaces in which vibrant ceiling murals bloom with imagery of Western colonialism alongside imagery of Vietnam War conflict and protest.

Recalling the evocative large - scale multi-media works of German artist Anselm Kiefer, the photographs from the Black Soil series suggest physical sites of violence and conflict befitting the political realities of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, her work moved increasingly towards large - scale installations that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination.

For Conflicting Lines, his 2015 exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair, Khan produced large - scale composite photographs made from a series of oil stick paintings which have undergone an intensive process of overlaying lines of writing repeatedly painted on to a minimal ground, until the language became obscured.

The large - scale works included in Against the Wall are primarily based on media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting the conflict between Israel and Palestine, exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the constructed, imaginary space of painting.

Large - scale violent conflict harms assets that facilitate adaptation, including infrastructure, institutions, natural resources, social capital, and livelihood opportunities.

Most authors identify government practices as being far more influential drivers than climate variability, noting also that similar changes in climate did not stimulate conflicts of the same magnitude in neighboring regions, and that in the past people in Darfur were able to cope with climate variability in ways that avoided large scale violence.

A new generation of models is needed in all three of climate science, impact and economics with a still stronger focus on lives and livelihoods, including the risks of large - scale migration and conflicts.

«From 1910 - 1949 (pre-agricultural development, pre-DEV) to 1970 - 2009 (full agricultural development, full - DEV), the central United States experienced large - scale increases in rainfall of up to 35 % and decreases in surface air temperature of up to 1 °C during the boreal summer months of July and August... which conflicts with expectations from climate change projections for the end of the 21st century (i.e., warming and decreasing rainfall)(Melillo et al., 2014).»

The increase in flood risk may become unsustainable in regions where the combination of socio - economic and climatic drivers trigger large - scale climatic crises involving conflicts and mass migration, according to the authors.

Drought, caused by warming of the temperatures, could lead to large - scale disruption of food systems and possible conflict over water resources.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

A large supply oil source would allow stockpiling on a massive scale and make a medium sized and smaller conflicts more feasible.

This analytical report examines recent threats to health security in the WHO European Region from communicable diseases, natural disasters, large - scale accidents, conflicts and complex emergencies and the potential future challenges from climate change.