Sentences with phrase «led war time»

In previous league tables both Lloyd George and Churchill were rated highly, because they were war leaders and led war time coalitions.

Not exact matches

The reality is that the military is probably taking the lead on this — so either they really do not want a war with Iran, which is unlikely (when was the last time professional warriors ached to beat swords into plowshares?)
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.
Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.
Morton's feisty and daring nature led him to command one the U.S. Navy's most fierce war ships of all time, the USS Wahoo.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman goes so far as to raise the spectre of the Depression - era financial policies that led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic — and the Second World War.
As the country prepares to be led for the first time in almost 60 years by someone not named Castro, a tectonic shift that could profoundly affect how it is governed, cold war rhetoric has again filled the air.
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As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.
Another GW Bush kind of guy leading us for some «God told» crusade to launch some «preemptive» wars, this time against maybe Iran, or China???? The price tag?
It requires that the war proponents had two thoughts in their mind at the same time: getting the U.S. to intervene and then leading the protest against U.S. intervention.
These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.
It does indeed: Whitehead is very much the Anglican who has a duty to «the State» or «the nation» which in time of danger such as war leads him to condemn Russell's «heedlessness» in protesting injustice to conscientious objectors.
Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.
At the same time, specific aspects of the European — especially the German — war machines led editors to focus on them.
The intransigence of the United States has in recent years, for the first time since World War II, led to international treaties being ratified without the participation of the United States.
Christians will likely lose the culture wars, leading to difficult times ahead for us.
would it be another war where God will lead people in interesting way like Israel marched around 7 times around the Jericho?
This, in turn, has led to another flare up of the rumbling culture war between the analytics insurgents, who believe all human endeavour can and must be reduced to a single equation, and the traditionalist old guard, who believe the only way to understand a footballer is by following him around for weeks at a time and watching everything he does, meticulously observing his breakfast habits, which way «round he arranges his toilet paper, and whether he throws chewing gum into a bin or just drops it in the street.
Probably before your time this but I remember the fights on the north bank and the clockend over terry Neill before he was sacked, then the protests to get don howe out that also lead to warring factions amongst the supporters.
And in America, on hearing the Declaration of Independence read for the first time, American colonists pulled to the ground a statue of King George III in Manhattan, destroying it and re-using the lead for the bullets and muskets of the Revolutionary War.
A telecommunications company that probably had the best marketing war chest of the entire lot at the time, dominating the airwaves and nearly every inch of space in Nigeria's leading newspapers.
«Don't forget that Winston Churchill who led Britain to victory in the Second World War was booed at the Walthamstow dog track in 1945 when he'd steered his country through the darkest times it had ever known, so you never know what's around the corner.»
Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.
This seemingly concocted report is the latest in a series of orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Commission by shadowy forces that are obviously envious of the success of the EFCC, especially at a time, when the anti-graft agency enjoys the status of the shining light of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration's war against corruption.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is being questioned for a second time by the Iraq inquiry about his role in the lead - up to the 2003 war.
A budget tug of war between Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and the County Legislature is leaving a program to combat lead poisoning in limbo, for now, even as federal data shows young children in Western New York suffer from lead poisoning rates three times higher than those in Flint, Mich..
This is a Conservative - led government presiding over the highest tax burden since the end of the second world war and the smallest standing army since Victorian times.
Cigarette wars light up as Philip Morris leads coalition of seven tobacco companies and the NY Association of Convenience Stores in lawsuit against Village of Haverstraw Rockland County Times Earlier this year, the Village of Haverstraw, working with POW» R Against Tobacco, took the unprecedented step of banning retail displays of cigarette products in their stores, -LSB-...]
Frieman leads a project called the Dark Energy Survey, one part of which is spending five years tracking how this tug - of - war has changed over time.
But by the time of the war, many of these leading scholars had died, and during the war many promising Bosnian archaeology students fled, settling into permanent positions at universities abroad.
The humanitarian crises in Europe, the Middle East, north Africa, and central Asia have led to more displaced people, asylum seekers, and refugees worldwide than at any time since the second world war.
The Yale - led research team used a complex computer coding program to comb through the archives of the New York Times, Reuters, and Associated Press, and found that as each war came and went, a new term was used to describe the disorder now referred to as PTSD.
Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.
I thought you would be very interested in this youtube video which shows a look back in time at someone struggling with obesity, and how early habits can influence choices later in life: Thank you for leading the charge in the war on sugar!
The narrative is split between the realities of Kabul in an unclear time before the 2001 start of the United States - led war in Afghanistan and a relatively lighter story of fantasy.
Two days after Dick screened The Invisible War for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on April 14, the DOD head announced plans requiring, as The New York Times reported, that all sexual assault complaints be handled by more - senior officers, not unit commanders — a change that will hopefully lead to more prosecutions.
I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.
Apart from the original theatrical releases of the first trilogy, the anticipation leading towards the release of The Phantom Menace was one of the most exciting times in history to be a Star Wars fan.
I grabbed a seat and felt like we were catching up on old times while he shared with me his views on auditioning, «making it,» family values, and his overall journey that led him to BLACK PANTHER and ultimately INFINITY WARS.
With so much on the line - and a full decade of movies leading up to its story - Avengers: Infinity War is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated superhero movies of all time (though we're anticipating one other 2018 film even more).
This time focusing a group of dudes which could be led by producer Channing Tatum with The Russo Brothers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War) attached to direct and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) set to write the script.
Here's the wrap - up of our fantastic talk with David Jaffe, creative lead on the Twisted Metal series and one of my favorite all - time games, God of War.
This is something Marvel die - hards would have expected to see at some point in Black Panther — because, according to the trailer, by the time Avengers: Infinity War rolls around this May, Bucky will be in fighting shape enough to help lead a heroic charge on the Wakandan fields wearing what is, we can only hope, a brand - new metal arm Shuri crafted for him.
It was the first in a wave of Cantonese language hits in the colony, leading the transition away from the Mandarin language films of the Shaw Brothers (who were themselves war - time transplants from Shanghai).
And for a long time, we were led to believe that the sequel would be titled Infinity War Part 2.
They made the same mistake that Danny DeVito made with «The War of the Roses»: the relationship between the two leads is so horrifically lopsided that by the time it comes to its inevitable conclusion, it's hard to disagree, never mind care.
The «Star Wars» theatrical universe was once a near - religious trilogy, but with Disney now leading the way, it won't stop expanding any time soon.
Twilight Time has recently released The Dogs of War on Blu - ray, and apologies for burying the lead, but this new release is definitely worth viewing whether you've seen the film or not.
In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».
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