Sentences with phrase «losing side of the war»

Much tougher for these women since their men were on the losing side of the war.

Not exact matches

Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments.

Now that we know science is true, each life lost during these so - called «holy wars» where some «God» fought on one or both sides... consider these as victims of mansllaughter.

But unlike the often sentimentalized views of modern pacifists, the Greeks never lost sight of the other side of war: its frequent necessity.

As I wrote in November, Christians are increasingly considering the reality that we might be on the losing side of the culture war.

He had been losing inch by inch in the devil's tug - of - war, pulled so gradually to the other side that he hadn't noticed the hell he was in until it was almost too late.

Rose's output dropped massively after round 2, and it looked like she was going into round 5 on the losing side of a slow war attrition.

Despite having lost a large chunk of his career to the War, Ditchburn went on play over 400 games for the White Hart Lane side before retiring after breaking his finger in a game against Chelsea in 1958.

I am looking more for the attacking side admitting they misunderstood an event and were in the wrong of their own accord rather than because of losing a war.

A son of the Cold War tells what it was like from the losing side of the Space Race — and how the U.S.S.R.'s space program fizzled after Sputnik and Gagarin

I still love The Last Jedi, I think it is a great Star Wars movie, but it loses massive points in my book for pushing Finn to the side in favor of sad - boy Kylo Ren and his gaslighting of Rey.

I remember that Universal had issued a HD DVD disc of this back when it had taken the losing format's side in the Blu - ray / HD DVD war of the early aughts; once Blu - ray won, Universal declined to issue a Blu - ray.

It makes for an interesting companion to Christopher Nolan's summer hit, showing the desperation on the other side of the conflict and the belief that, should the forces fall, the war effort would be all but lost.

, Kedi (a documentary about street cats in Istanbul), Personal Shopper, Dawson City: Frozen Time, A Ghost Story, Call Me By Your Name, God's Own Country, The Other Side of Hope, The Square, The Lost City of Z, Okja, The Florida Project, Marjorie Prime, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, It Comes at Night, Wind River, Coco, Woodshock, The Devil's Candy, and The Lovers.

Yes, many people are still fighting that war, on both sides of the debate, and it may well be some time before the most reluctant publishers realize that their cause is lost, but the gains made by self publishing have been so pronounced, so rapid and what is most important, so irreversible, that it's time to call it done.

There's a point when you know, culturally, that your choice of console meant that you supported the losing side in the ongoing console wars.

Lose those high aspirations — let «our» side be one that tortures (or let the real reason for a war be the interests of Big Oil)-- and the confidence that we are the «good guys» deflates.

I suggest that both sides of the climate wars have lost the battle along with the plot.

It is often said that neither side won the war of 1812 but there is one group that lost big: the indigenous peoples who lived west of the 13 colonies and were promised a nation by Great Britain.