Sentences with phrase «modern military might»
The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.
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I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.
Although presumably made as a way of doing a modern - day version of such somewhat dubious monster mash - ups as «Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man» and «Freddy Vs. Jason,» the idea of bringing together the greatest metaphorical movie monsters of their respective time periods — the Alien representing fears of the sexual revolution of the 1970s and the Predator symbolizing the might - makes - right military mindset of the following decade — in a battle for supremacy is one that is not entirely unpromising.
Thus, Iron Man — originally conceived in 1963 as an anti-communist force of democratic might — becomes the wish - fulfillment fantasy of modern America, a virtuous application of our unrivaled military hardware free from administrative buffoonery and private profiteering.
Homefront: The Revolution (PC, PS4, Xbox One), set to be released on May 17th, is a more traditional modern military shooter, and the story of how it came to be might be more interesting than the game itself.
A courtroom for a military judge might be a modern and well - furbished facility, or, as was the case in deployed locations, it could be a tent, or a hardened aircraft hangar.