Sentences with phrase «long war with»

A decade - long war with a huge cast characters and angry Gods is not something that people would probably go for.

WHAT: Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last remaining humans on Earth — a drone repairman that's part of an operation to extract vital resources from the planet after a decades - long war with an alien race known as Scavengers.

Waldman uses our long war with the iron oxide as a loose frame, focusing more on the people crusading against the electrochemical reaction than on the science they marshal to fight it.

Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

«This was the long war with himself / always foreseen, the question not / to be answered.

Now we can expect teachers to go back into the trenches for the next stage of their decades - long war with a succession of provincial governments.

Not exact matches

He wears his wavy auburn hair long — the sale of Alliance Atlantis freed him of the need to maintain the well - coiffed looks that Bay Street demands of a chief executive, says McLean — and shleps around with a scuffed leather shoulder bag that looks like it's been through the wars.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

Meanwhile, it is unclear what strategy Trump will adopt with regard to the years» long Syrian civil war between President Bashar al - Assad and rebel forces who want his ouster.

Trump was referring to the long - debunked myth that Army Gen. John Joseph «Black Jack» Pershing, who was the governor of the Philippines after the Spanish - American war, quelled Muslim insurgents there by shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood.

Zhukov, long a confidant of Stalin, earned glory for his command during the war, but he would soon find himself on the outs with the mercurial Soviet leader.

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

More from the South China Morning Post: Kim Jong - un wife's fashion sense a hit with China's public China's secrecy over Kim Jong - un's visit was part of a long - standing tradition US and China in talks to shield soybeans and other farm products from trade war tariffs

With prices no longer rising so strongly, buyers are getting pickier, and bidding wars are falling out of favor.

Trouble is also brewing overseas — the U.S. on Monday demanded that China must stop the hacking of U.S. computer networks and Beijing faces pressure to rein in long — time ally and neighbor North Korea, which has been escalating its war of words with South Korea.

With Disney pushing the annual release of Star Wars movies, Star Wars toys are likely to remain popular as the franchise has long been a hit with kids as well as fans of the originWith Disney pushing the annual release of Star Wars movies, Star Wars toys are likely to remain popular as the franchise has long been a hit with kids as well as fans of the originwith kids as well as fans of the originals.

With the reinvigorated effort, the Air Force — already facing its own strains — may also see expanded involvement in America's longest war.

By his reckoning, much credit is due to commanders on the ground like Colonels H. R. McMaster and Sean McFarland, who saw first - hand that the American war strategy was doomed so long as it failed to engage with and earn buy - in from the Iraqis themselves.

Such chronic inflammation amounts to a never - ending civil war inside your body and is associated with a long list of ills.

FDD's Long War Journal tracked airstrikes in Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Pakistan from publicly available press releases and inquiries with the relevant combatant commands as well as from press reports.

Plans were also afoot for the 2017 release of Disney Infinity 4.0, complete with a long - awaited story mode that would have intertwined the adventures of characters from the series» disparate Star Wars, Marvel and Disney universes.

Israel's state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long - awaited, highly critical reports published on Tuesday.

On the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, Canada and Japan can look back with satisfaction on a long - standing friendship that was restored and revived, following the disruption of the war years, primarily through strong trade ties.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

I've long thought that an administration chock - full of billionaires, active and retired military officers, and a former oilman would be itching for a war somewhere, and with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump associates getting hotter by the day, the president may well be tempted to wag the dog.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Previously, as a practice head at Fuld & Co., a Boston based consulting firm, Kevin, leading the delivery of insights and recommendations on competitive business and talent practices, facilitating scenario planning and war - gaming exercises for Fortune 500 executive teams to align team members with long - term strategic initiatives.

While international adoptions have long been associated with wars and destruction, in the case of South Korea, the largest number of children were sent overseas after the country had long recovered from war - the 1980s.

Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.

Coupled with Disney's already well - known properties, including «Star Wars» and Marvel's hit films, the additions create a new pipeline of content for Disney's forthcoming streaming service — a key aspect of its strategy to sell direct to consumers instead of through the pay TV ecosystem that has long fueled the media industry.

As Jeremy Siegel showed in Stocks For the Long Run, since World War II, there have actually been five bear markets with losses -LSB-...]

As Jeremy Siegel showed in Stocks For the Long Run, since World War II, there have actually been five bear markets with losses in excess of 20 % that have occurred outside of a recession.

Thus by the war's end, or not long thereafter (for the implementation of the 10 % tax was eventually delayed until August 1866), national banks had become the country's only suppliers of banknotes, which, together with U.S. Treasury notes («greenbacks») also authorized during the war, made up the total stock of United States paper currency.

You recently had a discussion with our co-founder, Gordon T. Long, and I'm just wondering if you can relate that in terms of how financial repression has caused the trade wars.

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

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.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

The Father and the Son bore with Lucifer long, and clearly laid out his destructive path — but he refused repentance, thus deceiving one third of the Holy angels to join his rebellion: Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

the world wars lasted how long?????? The only reason people make such a big deal about 9 - 11 is that it was the first time in history that brought something like this to our soil here at home and people were to weak in the mind to deal with it and it shattered their glass houses they live in.

They could have used this for military advantage in a battle with their long - term enemies, the Medes, but instead it appears that they used it to engineer a lasting peace, because when the darkness interrupted the fighting, they said that the gods were demanding an end to the war.

with your Wars, fighting / MURDERING your JEWISH brothers since you are both the descendants of Abraham / Ibrahim (PBUH), and the JEWS, well you lost your «GRACE» long ago....

' Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation Of peace forevermore; Till, with the vision glorious, Her longing eyes are blest, And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.

Pope Francis has called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long - suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».

Until we ditch this whole «liberal» and «conservative» word war we will never progress as a society, or at least it will take us much much longer to actually fix the problems both sides have with the current system.

more than 2000 years men from all nations to search and found faith, american atheist just kids try to make war with these long developed civilizations.

The beginning of the end of the Cold War — although the end was long delayed — began, says Gaddis, with Khrushchev's address to the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist party in 1956.

So long as a sexual hierarchy obtains which allows a man to rape a woman with impunity, or a husband to rape a wife and call it legal, all such crimes of dominance will continue, the poor will be kept poor, and war will flourish despite all our tinkering with world economies and reaching for solutions through diplomacy.

Many readers who agree that the U.S. was intended to be a republic and not an empire will nonetheless disagree with what can only be described as the author's radical isolationism, including his restated doubts as to whether World War II was ours to fight and his suggestion that Israel is, at least in the long term, a lost cause.