Sentences with phrase «larger civil war»

These bonds are key to the plot but never truly feel much more than surface level and secondary to the larger civil war / secret organization conflict at hand.

Such has been the case with Shane Black's Tony Stark - heavy Iron Man 3, the third Captain America movie adopting the much larger Civil War storyline and, hypothetically, Avengers 3 bringing everyone together for Infinity War.

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But as troubling as the largest civil defense drills since the height of the Cold War have been, the steps Russia has taken to improve its offensive nuclear capabilities likely overshadow them.

The European union is suffering from yet another crisis: the tens of thousands of migrants arriving at its shores each month, a large portion of whom are fleeing the civil war in Syria.

As the name suggests, Goliath can also become quite large, similar to Scott Lang's Giant - Man seen in 2016's «Civil War.»

The civil war that has been ravaging the country and the world for the better part of the last decade is largely seen as a proxy war between larger players.

The land grants to railroad barons after America's Civil War, for example created the largest American fortunes for the ensuing century.

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.

And the European Central Bank's support of the largest banks and bondholders at the cost of domestic taxpayers has imposed monetary deflation on Eurozone countries, reminiscent of America's 19th - century deflation before and after the Civil War.

The larger problem with a theology that brings such a singular zeal and gives such an overriding priority to judicial prosecution is that it reserves little attention for the vast suffering that genocides, civil wars, and dictatorships leave even after the tyrants have been replaced and the shooting has stopped.

By next summer the Occupy movement will be larger than the Civil Rights movement and the anti war movement of the 60's.

As America passed beyond the Civil War, large numbers of German and Scandinavian peoples came over.

The South in the Civil War was the only part of our nation ever to experience directly the devastation of modern warfare in what was one of the largest and most destructive of 19th - century wars.

Leaders at the cathedral have announced plans to remove images of Confederate battle flags shown in large stained glass displays that honor Civil War generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, both of whom led Confederate forces.

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 - 39 — a war that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and ItaWar of 1936 - 39 — a war that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and Itawar that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and ItaWar II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and Italy.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legaWar — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legawar cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

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.

Ninety per cent of the presidents of colleges before the Civil War were ordained ministers.42 In the post-War period these men were rapidly replaced, especially in the larger and more influential institutions, by members of other professions.

(2) Jewish landowners of large estates or mansions were even more sparse, although it is true that Jews entered the cotton refining industry, mostly after the Civil War.

Look it will obviously take more than saving a few refugees to solve this problem but it doesn't seem like Assad is going away anytime soon so if we can help some people while we pursue our larger goal of ending the civil war then I'm in favor of helping.

Gradually, during the 1990s, the Security Council began to use Chapter VII much more to impose economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and to deploy large peacekeeping forces and even military attacks in many civil wars.

Rog Thks, I entered that observation, the political lansdacape of today does relect the Civil War Map of 1861 t a large degree.

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.

When Angola finally gained independence in 1975, civil war quickly engrossed large portions of the territory, reversing gains over the previous two decades.

Unless the Tories succumb to civil war, I'd still say it's 50 - 50 whether Ed Miliband or David Cameron will lead the larger party after May 2015.

Owens, who won with a plurality of the vote, was the first Democrat to capture New York's northern-most congressional district since the Civil War, but his victories in 2009 and 2010 were due in large part to divisions on the Republican side.

In the largest protests in the country for decades, thousands of civilians have been killed and the situation has the potential to turn into a civil war between the government, the opposition, and Islamist groups.

More than 2.5 million people have left Syria since the outbreak of the civil war — the largest movement of people since the Second World Wwar — the largest movement of people since the Second World WarWar.

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.

Paladino lost the 2010 election by the third largest margin in a gubernatorial race since the Civil War, and lost Nassau and Suffolk by over 20 points.

The situation would be exacerbated by increasing Syrian agricultural water use in the aftermath of the country's prolonged civil war, which could further diminish flow to the Yarmouk River, the largest tributary to the Jordan River.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

The company, named Henry Thayer & Company, prospered and broadened its line of products and has been described as the largest manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in America at the time of the Civil War.

Our two - men team as already deliver 13 rich maps or infographics dealing with a large variety of subjects; From Japanese nuclear installations to new naval powers in the South China Sea, as well as the Syrian civil war, and Edward Snowden's «revelations».

Clockwise from top left: A large EU flag is waved across Maidan on 27 November 2013, opposition activist and popular singer Ruslana addresses the crowds on When the Russian Civil War broke out, on 12 February 1918 Yuzovka was part of the Donetsk - Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.

And that's not an unreasonable instinct: Captain America's first onscreen return in Civil War is awe - inspiring in large part because he's the Captain America who's lived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the past seven years.

Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Civil War is a rather large ensemble story, full of familiar and new characters.

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

The Civil War table for Pinball FX2 is the latest in what is now a large string of Marvel - themed pinball tables.

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.

Based on the ending of Civil War, Tony and Cap will be able to put aside their differences to stand against a larger threat.

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Imax auditoriums grossed roughly $ 3M last night, which is tied with the large format exhibitor's results for Ultron and Civil War.

Before he was playing a larger - than - life superhero in Captain America: Civil War and now Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman had already had a lot of experience playing different kinds of heroes, as he played both Jackie Robinson and James Brown in two acclaimed performances (that likely led to him being cast as Black Panther).

In a hilarious short film that premiered at Comic Con — but was finally unveiled to the public at large today — Thor explains his Civil War absence: He took some «me» time in Australia.

Much in the same way The Winter Soldier did, Civil War takes these larger than life characters and brings them down to earth.

The events of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, unsurprisingly, loom large over the teaser trailer, not only because the blockbuster left ex-con Scott Lang a fugitive — he and Steve Rogers» other allies were imprisoned at the Raft, and then broken out — but because his actions had consequences for those around him.