Sentences with phrase «midst of civil war»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln likewise called for a day of Thanksgiving in November:

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

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 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.

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.

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Milton's Areopagitica, published as a letter to Parliament in 1644, in the midst of the English Civil War, was an impassioned case against censorship and the oppression of thought.

In an interview on CBS» «Face the Nation», Graham said the Republican Party is in the midst of a «civil war» and called Trump's foreign policy positions dangerous.

In the midst of the Galactic Civil War, transport yourself into space with our unique TIE Fighter ™ Pendant to light the way towards saving the Death Star ™.

I Mean It Is One Of The Best Games Ever, But To Me Its Like Harvey Birdman Said» Let me get this straight: Skyrim's people — who supposedly thought dragons were a myth, like Godzilla — find themselves in the midst of a FULL - FLEDGED DRAGON INVASION, and it ranks maybe 5th on their conversational priority list, after the civil war, their lost amulet, the fact that you're wearing light armor, and the weatheOf The Best Games Ever, But To Me Its Like Harvey Birdman Said» Let me get this straight: Skyrim's people — who supposedly thought dragons were a myth, like Godzilla — find themselves in the midst of a FULL - FLEDGED DRAGON INVASION, and it ranks maybe 5th on their conversational priority list, after the civil war, their lost amulet, the fact that you're wearing light armor, and the weatheof a FULL - FLEDGED DRAGON INVASION, and it ranks maybe 5th on their conversational priority list, after the civil war, their lost amulet, the fact that you're wearing light armor, and the weather.

In fact, his first project proceeding the thunder that was 12 Years A Slave is something even smaller and more personal: a tragic tale of a love affair caught in the midst of the Biafran Civil War.

Joe Russo and Anthony Russo, the filmmakers behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War directed both Infinity War and Avengers 4, the latter of which is still in the midst of production.

«Virunga» is the incredible true story of a group of brave individuals risking their lives to save Africa's oldest national park in the midst of renewed civil war and a scramble for the region's natural resources.

In issue # 534, part of the follow - up story arc «The War at Home» (a Civil War tie - in), Spider - Man memorably springs the legs on Captain America in the midst of a hero - on - hero fight.

The facts are these: in 1934, in the midst of a brutal civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his Nationalist troops.

Nate Granzow: Cogar will return, this time in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, in the third book in the series — Cogar's Crusade.

Players take the role of a mercenary leader, tasked with, among other things, fighting in the midst of a galactic civil war.

With his meticulously deconstructed video reenactment of Syrian snipers shooting directly at civilians who simultaneously point mobile phone cameras at them, Mroué searches for the possibility of human connection in the midst of an alienating civil war.

I'd argue that the United States has been in the midst of a Cold Civil War between the Red and the Blue for some time now, and that climate change is only one front of that wWar between the Red and the Blue for some time now, and that climate change is only one front of that warwar.

Leonardo DiCaprio executive produced the Netflix collaboration Virunga, which is a documentary about protecting a group of endangered gorillas in the midst of the bloody Congo civil war.