Sentences with phrase «new wars a year»

«In the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, wars broke out between European countries at a rate of about three new wars a year.»

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Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

The attacks in rapid succession were a grim reminder of the strength of both the Taliban and Islamic State's emerging Afghanistan branch to wreak violence despite stepped up U.S. air attacks under Trump's new policy for the 16 - year - old war.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

And even though there have been signs that the patent wars are finally winding down this year, a new front has just opened up.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

The newest game set in the «Star Wars» universe isn't a game based on last year's massively popular «The Force Awakens.»

In his new strategy for the 16 - year Afghan war, Trump singled out Pakistan for harboring Taliban leaders and other militants that are battling American troops in Afghanistan.

WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP)-- A love letter lost in the walls of a New Jersey home has reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written.

As a result, almost 40 years later the entire world still freaks out when a new Star Wars come out.

The signing of the historic agreement this week opens an exciting new chapter for mineral rich Bougainville, which saw its riches turn to rags during a 10 - year civil war ending in 1998.

The U.S. military's 15 - year focus on counterinsurgency during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed other military powers — in particular China — to produce new equipment and modernize its forces at a rate that has Pentagon leaders concerned.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Invariably, when we tell the story of how the band survived 10 years in the New York and New Jersey bar scene while struggling to get a record deal, people want to hear war stories about shady club owners and how we dealt with the implied «mob scene.»

While it doesn't tell us anything about the aftermath of «Infinity War,» there are some clues hinting at a new hero and more about the Quantum Realm which will almost definitely come into play in next year's superhero sequel.

«If war and revolution marked the last century, the competition for prosperity and the marketing of ways to enjoy that new wealth is moulding the early years of the 21st century,» Becker writes.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

The most recent playset for Captain America: Civil War, for example, not only focuses on new characters like Black Panther and Vision, but includes support for Marvel - based figures from years past.

It announced recently that it will be accelerating new store openings next year, after losing a furious bidding war for Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) to rival Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR).

That's adding to pressure on Munoz, who has been under fire this year for fighting a fare war with discounters, bobbling the rollout of a new no - frills product and mishandling the furor when a passenger was dragged off a plane in April.

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In an October 2015 post, I posed the question: Will a New Paradigm for Corporate Governance Bring Peace to the Thirty Years» War?

Less than a year later, New York City called for the delivery of 2,000 Quonset huts — prefabricated frame structures that were used in the war — to a 75 - acre site in Canarsie to house veterans.

Target executives expect that its already successful new in - house children's apparel line, Cat & Jack, Star Wars Rogue One products, and Disney Princesses like Frozen's Elsa will be standouts for gifts this year.

Supply will be ample due to new tech, globalization and other factors we've explored over the years such as no big global wars (we hope), continual inflation worries by central bankers, continuing restructuring, and cost - cutting mass retailing.

Wolff's other books include, TELEVISION IS THE NEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yeaNEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yeanew; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet years.

The year will see new releases in The Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO Movie, Despicable Me, Star Wars, Justice League, Avatar and Transformers franchises.

In a dramatic turnaround from his election campaign calls for the 16 - year war to be brought to an end, Trump unveiled a new south Asia strategy designed to prevent a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, target Islamic State and al Qaida and stop mass terror attacks in the USA.

James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.

Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the «demythologization» of the Gospel provoked a storm of controversy in the years after World War II, wrote in his seminal essay: «It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of....

I'd like to see a war on «New Year».

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

My three and a half years in the Army during World War II and its immediate aftermath gave a new direction to my life.

The Arabs completed the conquest of the Levant within a few years of the death of the Prophet, their surprising success made possible by the inspiration of their new faith which filled their souls with confidence, and by the decline of the power of Persia and Byzantium as a result of their perpetual wars against each other.

Four hundred years after this epidemic (and a subsequent nuclear war initiated by «Muslim radicals»), the book description says, «a new and noble civilization emerges.»

Rumor has it that The War on Drugs may finally be giving us a new album this year.

CNN: Atheist group targets Muslims, Jews with «myth» billboards in Arabic and Hebrew The billboard wars between atheists and believers have raged for years now, especially around New York City, and a national atheist group is poised to take the battle a step further with billboards in Muslim and Jewish enclaves bearing messages in Arabic and Hebrew.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

Dylan did soon sense and sing, also in 1963, that the times, they are a-changin», but twenty years later we find U2 lamenting, with respect to war and another sort of oppression, that nothing changes, on New Year's Day.

-LSB-...] Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, when the UN undertook to build a «new global consensus» on the norms, values and priorities of international cooperation for the post-Cold War era and the 21st century.

«For almost 50 years South Korean villagers have insisted that early in the Korean War, American soldiers machine - gunned hundreds of help less civilians under a railroad bridge near a ham - let 100 miles southeast of Seoul,» read a front - page article in the New York Times.

A wistful letter of New Year's Day, 1941, again noted that many pacifists had reneged, owing to the exigencies of the conflict, but would return to the fold after the war.

Proponents of classic hymns and choral music, scions of alternative new hymnody and «world music,» and lovers of the good ol' «Sankey Doodle» gospel songs have all registered their dismay, as evidenced by the infamous «worship wars» which have plagued churches in recent years.

No single work which has appeared in the field of New Testament scholarship during the war years has evoked such a lively discussion as Bultmann's original manifesto, New Testament and Mythology (p. 1 ff.

20 years behind us southern states and NEW YORK, sad and scary... nobody denies freedoms like the south, nobody... the top ten incarcerators on the planet are southern states and more blacks are in prison then were slaves before the civil war... even if marijuana reforms did pass the republiCANTS in charge would deny you all your freedoms, centuries of practice... no matter though, we never planned on getting your backwards brethren from day one, half the country already but not one southern state, lol... not 1....

(CNN)-- The billboard wars between atheists and believers have raged for years now, especially around New York City, and a national atheist group is poised to take the battle a step further with billboards in Muslim and Jewish enclaves bearing messages in Arabic and Hebrew.

Now I know Happy Holidays is not Politically Correct amongst the rabid War on Christmasers, but Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, Day are holidays which is why I add Happy Holidays.

London had a new Catholic Cathedral at Westminster, almost a stone's throw from Parliament, and a few years before the war had hosted the International Eucharistic Congress.

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.