Sentences with phrase «midst of a civil war»

In 2014, for instance, China was the only country among the top three exporters to sell weapons to South Sudan, an oil - rich country in the midst of a civil war.

The politics of the future is hard to know under the best of circumstances; the future politics of a failed state in the midst of civil war is almost entirely speculative.

The war between right and wrong, good and evil, the old self and new self in Christ rages on, and so to look for instructions and fulfillment on how to live better lives is like looking to a country in the midst of civil war for instructions on how to set up a functioning government.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in the midst of the Civil War, the slaves who lived within the realm of the Confederacy remained in bondage.

Living in Kakuma is better than living in South Sudan, a nation erupting with famine in the midst of a civil war.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

The GOP is in the midst of a civil war, pitting the tea partiers against the more moderate economic — centric members.

Socialist construction began following the enormous destruction of WW I and in the midst of the civil war.

Are your hangers and dresser drawers in the midst of a civil war with their constituents?

Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, stars of No Escape, play parents of two young girls who find themselves trapped in the midst of a civil war in south - east Asia.

Starring Rosamund Pike and Dean Norris as CIA operatives, «Beirut» centers on a former U.S. diplomat, played by Jon Hamm, who must negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind in the midst of a civil war.

Discover Mars, a world in the midst of civil war, where native populations consist of mutants, religious fanatics, and bandits likely to kill you to steal your water.

This, of course, is a classic love triangle, albeit one set in the midst of civil war with one of the trio (Peeta) the victim of a horrifying brainwashing that has made him unstable and potentially violent towards his friends.

The fact that he is able, after a little bit of research, to find an elusive terrorist in a country in the midst of civil war is a riot.

Kuroneko, directed by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba, The Naked Island) is about a pair of ghosts, a woman and her daughter - in - law, who vow to kill samurai after they are brutally murdered in the midst of a civil war.

The third main entry in the Ogre franchise that started on the SNES, developed by the Quest Corporation, Ogre Battle 64 casts you as the up - and - coming captain Magnus Gallant who is caught in the midst of a civil war.

The game's plot is set in the 1600s, in a fictionalized world during the Sengoku period when Japan was in the midst of a civil war prior to the ascension of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Nioh takes place in the 1600s during a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period, when Japan was in the midst of civil war prior to the ascension of the Tokugawa shogunate.

You step into the shoes of US Marine Corps sniper, Captain Jonathan «Jon» North as he's thrust into the midst of a civil war in this former Soviet republic.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 takes place two years after the events of the first game, with Gallia now in the midst of a Civil War.

Set two hundred years after Oblivion, the game takes place in the land of Skyrim in the midst of a civil war after the assassination of the high king.

NiOh takes places within the early 1600's during a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period, which was when Japan was in the midst of a civil war.

The Spanish Republic commissioned the Spanish Pavilion in the midst of the Civil War — and its purpose was to reveal, through art, the atrocities committed by Franco's regime.

In 1997, Abramovic won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her installation and performance Balkan Baroque, for which she cleaned a pile of cow bones, reflecting on the tumultuous history of the Balkan states, and in particular her native Yugoslavia, which had collapsed in the midst of civil wars in the early 1990s.

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War and facing family financial hardship, Lucy Bakewell Audubon (John James's widow) sold her husband's portfolio of original paintings executed in preparation for his engraved and hand - colored masterwork The Birds Of America (1827 — 38) to the New York Historical Society.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the nation, as all of you know, was in the midst of the Civil War, and the Union had recently suffered a devastating defeat at Fredericksburg.

A few months after a devastating defeat at Fredericksburg, before Gettysburg would be won, before Richmond would fall, before the fate of the Union would be at all certain, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act creating the National Academy of Sciences — in the midst of civil war.

In the past, households had been able to grow and sell vegetables and fruit6, even during the midst of the civil war (1976 - 1992) 7.