Sentences with phrase «more than war»

The «War on Drugs»; «War on Terror»; «War on Communism» and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People — an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence.

Instead, the furor over this single project has overshadowed the two countries» overall energy and environmental relationship and left little more than a war of words between those with vested interests on all sides.

The exhibition, which marks the 40th anniversary of the pioneering Public Art Fund, features work from the 1960s — when public art was allowed to become more than war memorials, civic - minded murals or the like — and highlights of the hundreds of innovative works that followed.

In purely economic terms, reading related difficulties cost our nation more than the war on terrorism, crime, and drugs combined.»

Nolan's camera pushes the edges of the screen as far as it can — you must see this movie in IMAX and on film, rather than digital, if at all possible — as Dunkirk engulfs the audience in something that feels like a lot more than a war movie.

A dog who will grab your heart and moments of intense emotion make this much more than another war movie although there are some tough battle scenes.

«She wanted the world to know there was more than a war going on in Afghanistan, that people were not getting their basic needs met.

If the gubernatorial campaign is going to be little more than war - by - press release, it's going to get very old very fast.

This brings me to what I think is the biggest danger to Pakistan, more than war or poor governance, the usual suspects — which are conditions it shares with other countries including India.

The «War on Drugs»; «War on Terror»; «War on Communism» and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People — an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence.

At issue here is more than the war, more than the survival of Judah, more than the liberation of Jerusalem.

It took a prophet to know that the First World War was a revelation instead of a mere war, but the common citizen knows that the present struggle is far more than a war.

Of course he is more than a war god; he is also god of storm, beneficent, life - bringing storm, which makes grass to grow.

The Communists / atheists who rejected God's moral principles killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century — more than all wars combined.

Not exact matches

Airlines are warring over wealthy travelers, spending millions on plush first - class cabins that look more like flying hotel rooms than seats on a commercial airliner.

To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII economic boom.

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

In many ways, the combat in the new «God of War» feels more «Dark Souls» or «Bloodborne» than «God of War.»

At the end of the day, I have more appreciation for being able to make an impact on someone's life than I have for helping to liberate Iraq in one war.

The site of fierce battles during the Korean War, Gangwon's mountains remain a focal point for recovery missions searching for the remains of more than 7,700 American soldiers still unaccounted for, according to Pentagon figures.

Reaction from lawmakers was far more positive than anyone could have predicted during the Bush - era estrangement of France and the U.S. over the Iraq War.

«Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.»

That's more important than ever given Amazon just declared war on every supermarket and corner store in America.

Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

De Beers spokesman Andrew Coxon estimated the value of conflict diamonds produced from three African states involved in civil war at more than US$ 255 million.

Irish research firm Eagle Alpha, for example, digested 7,416 comments on a Reddit gaming thread in October to predict that Electronic Arts (EA) would sell more of its new Star Wars videogame than it had projected; Electronic Arts soon raised its sales forecast, citing «excitement» over the game.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

It's far more important at this phase to win the standards war than to make money.

There is now more reported «activity from Russian submarines than we've seen since the days of the Cold War,» Johnstone told Jane's.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

For both Apple and Google, the fight for dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosystems.

More than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria since the war began with anti-government protests in March 2011.

The Vietnam War was more than 10 years in the making.

For the smartphone wars aficionados: Samsung sold more than any other smartphone maker, moving more than 71 million units.

Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the country in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people and pitted multiple warring sides against each other, including jihadists who have come to dominate the insurgency in many areas.

According to Headlines & Global News, the film industry ended the year with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.

Snapping up Canada Safeway for $ 5.7 billion, Empire Co. is now looking at more than $ 24 billion in annual sales, making it a much closer second in Canada's grocery store wars — and No. 1 in booming Western Canada.

The market was more competitive than they expected, and they lost bidding wars on six properties.

If there is anything that can generate more sequels than the Star Wars franchise, it's the saga of Walt Disney's CEO succession.

It explained how War had come to be flooded with far more prescription pain medicines than its population could ever reasonably or safely consume.

This is a much more complex world today than it was during the Cold War.

For more than a decade and a half, the U.S. has been engaged in an overseas war against non-state actors.

Such daily barbarism is more than sufficient motivation to pick up a rifle and help restore sanity to a war - torn land.