Sentences with phrase «large scale war»

Nuclear winter is still very much the dominant theory for what would likely happen if a large scale war took place.

«Large scale war or civil collapse is almost an inevitability in regions facing very scarce freshwater resources, very limited agricultural - land / productivity, and large - populations.

Either by pushing the Militesi Empire back or reclaiming land and cities thought to be their own, Rubrum and its accompanying Class Zero are called into action for a large scale war.

The narrative of the story is carefully laid out through text before the story missions and while the gameplay experience is top notch, some of the writing presented here is equally as brilliant and offers a glimpse at some of the realistic horrors of a large scale war.

Yes, to be a credible offensive weapon in a large scale war, more than a handful of warheads may be needed.

Not exact matches

And a full - scale tariff war with China would likely expose the largest U.S. export sectors to steep duties, including aircraft, semiconductors, corn and soybeans, trade lawyers said.

«But the U.S. brought the threat of war to the Korean peninsula with large - scale new sanctions on the DPRK ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony,» the state news agency said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters)- Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin said on Tuesday the U.S. sanctions imposed on some Russian companies resembled a large - scale trade war.

MOSCOW, April 10 - Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin said on Tuesday the U.S. sanctions imposed on some Russian companies resembled a large - scale trade war.

The main concern is that without the support of the two largest economies, the rules - based system of international trade can quickly lose its authority, leaving the world economy on a slippery slope towards a full - scale trade war.

But I must say there has not been a large scale invasion / war yet.

While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

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 large - scale attack on Iran would likely involve the US's NATO allies as well as Israel... and if Russia were to come to Iran's aid, we might have World War III on our hands.

They are not even greatly stirred by the prospect that we shall export our wars with our machines to other planets and re-enact on a larger scale the kind of history with which we have become too familiar.

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.

Can he assist us in our ongoing attempt to understand the large - scale political violence of our age — the wars, persecutions, and holocausts which have made the 20th century the bloodiest in history?

There was indeed eirene in the Greek sense: the absence of large - scale war (except far away on the empire's borders).

Even if you are not for the large - scale decriminalization of some drugs, much of the data suggests that there are major flaws in the War on Drugs» strategy of sentencing of enforcement.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

John Platt makes a passionate plea for an immediate, large - scale, emergency mobilization of the best scientific talent available to work at the imminent crises of war, population, hunger, and pollution that threaten our very existence.

After World War II the states took over the role of expanding the availability of higher education on a large scale.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

But we shall also note that from these peoples came the largest - scale exploitation of other segments of mankind and the most widely destructive wars in history.

Above all, the powers wage small - and large - scale cultural battles and wars, to destroy their enemies, physically, religio - culturally and spiritually.

Nonetheless, given the reality of large - scale war, such citizens could be held as prisoners of war under military authority.

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.

My analysis focuses on demonstrating the likely maintenance of the status quo without large - scale war given present circumstances, as well as the high opportunity cost of this outcome.

Look at asylum seekers» countries of origin and they follow a predictable pattern: where there is war, brutal repression and large scale human rights abuses with impunity, people will inevitably flee.

First, in Iraq, the decision to intervene came «out of nowhere», there was no large - scale ongoing civil war and the regime seemed as stable as it could have been at the time.

«The resurgence or large scale perpetration of the evil has now gotten to an uncontrollable and unacceptable level that an open confrontation or war has now been provoked between the Yorubas and the Fulanis.

But Falk and Hildebolt show that states, which centralize political power in a bureaucratic government, are less likely to lose large portions of their populations to war than are small - scale societies, such as hunter - gatherers.

Large scale cultivation of the soybean in the United States began only after the Second World War, and quickly rose to 140 billion pounds per year.

IL - 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around the large - scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II.

The film is essentially a large - scale reunion of three dozen beloved Marvel characters ranging from Don Cheadle's War Machine and Tom Hiddleston's Loki to Tom Holland's Spider - Man, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange.

As bleak as this story is, it's offset by war sequences so large in scale and beautifully animated that you can not help but look upon them in awe.

Introducing Thunderbolt in Civil War could also just serve as foundation for future films including Red Hulk, but Nemo's presence in the film suggests there might be some large - scale manipulations in store.

However, you would have to assume, with its grand scale and its large number of heroes, that this fact would go double for Infinity War.

Even if he was unable to nail all of the political ins and outs of the war, Harlin's expertise in large - scale action was an asset in the creation of 5 Days of Wwar, Harlin's expertise in large - scale action was an asset in the creation of 5 Days of WarWar.

Over the course of 2016, they travel the world attempting to solidify and «lock - in» policies that they believe will define their legacy, promote diplomacy over large - scale military action, and fundamentally alter how the US government confronts questions of war and peace, as they prepare to hand over the machinery of American power to a new administration.

Starting today, players can join the war effort to combat the large - scale escalation of Axis power in Call of Duty: WWII — The War Machiwar effort to combat the large - scale escalation of Axis power in Call of Duty: WWII — The War MachiWar Machine.

An immersive and intense experience that unfolds across three temporalities with the storytelling dexterity of a magic trick, «Dunkirk» finds director Christopher Nolan brilliantly pulling off a large - scale war epic with a degree of difficulty most filmmakers wouldn't dare approach.

They are Blockbusters with a capital b, characterized by a high - gloss sheen and dizzying amount of large - scale action set pieces and Infinity War fails to be an exception to that rule.

With the success of Chadwick Boseman's introduction in Captain America: Civil War, fans like myself couldn't wait for the solo film to be released, but with this teaser trailer it looks like Coogler is going to bring that magic yet again, but on the largest scale he can possibly do it on.

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will, of course, include plenty of the series» trademark large - scale real - time battles, but you'll also have to be politically astute if you want to win the day.

With World War Z, however, we get a budget of $ 190 million dedicated to bringing us the largest scale zombie movie to ever grace the big screen.

Obviously, this is larger in scale than Civil War because we have more than double the amount of characters in it, and it's Thanos, and it's cosmic.