Sentences with phrase «of civil war in»

Whether the changing climate increases the risk of civil war in Africa remains disputed and little robust research is available to resolve this question.

The Prince of Wales has said climate change may have been a factor in the emergence of civil war in Syria.

It will be a reunion for the orchestra, whose members have dispersed all over the world since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011.

An internationally acclaimed artist, Mabunda deals with the fierce destruction of civil war in Mozambique by neutralizing its weapons and creating peaceful or cheerful sculptures.

Well, they created a video that is one and a half minutes long called the «Most Shocking Second a Day» and it was launched right after the third anniversary of the Civil War in Syria.

After the end of the Civil War in 1865, many American art patrons traveled to Europe to infuse themselves with European culture.

The First World War is the root cause of the civil war in Syria.

He had transferred power in a way that, within the next couple of days, would trigger a state of civil war in both nations, followed by a war between the two of them.

In a story spanning generations, three families face the heartache and terror of nearly 30 years of civil war in Sri Lanka.

«New data show the devastating impact of the civil war in Syria,» said Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Hence, we have a thriller, set against the backdrop of a civil war in Sierra Leone, that makes a valiant attempt to bring attention to the issue (which still is a problem in Africa) but falters in placing it in predictable, formulaic action piece.

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

«The Conspirator» recounts how the president's death continued to keep America divided after the end of the Civil War in such a way that it allows viewers to feel as though they're right alongside Frederick and Mary.

Are you glad they are not ignoring the issues of Civil War in Infinity War?

Jazz grew out of the Civil War in New Orleans, and by the early 1900s it was linking white middle and upper classes to black entertainers.

«Only one of Syria's six World Heritage sites — the Ancient City of Damascus — appears to remain undamaged in satellite imagery since the onset of civil war in 2011,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project at AAAS.

A drought exacerbated by climate change might have contributed to the outbreak of civil war in Syria.

The study refutes the notion that climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity triggered by rising temperatures and drought.

«Examining food availability and the competition over such resources, especially where food is abundant, is essential to understanding the frequency of civil war in Africa,» says Ore Koren, a U.S. foreign policy and international security fellow at Dartmouth College and Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Minnesota.

Today, many Iraqi and Syrian archaeologists evoke this infamous chapter in medieval history to convey some sense of the devastation wrought by the so - called Islamic State (ISIL), along with the continued brutality of more than four years of civil war in Syria.

The risk of civil war in tropical countries increases during hot, dry El Nino years, perhaps due to food shortages.

The Deputy Prime Minister also criticised Mr Farage for praising Vladimir Putin's «brilliant» handling of the civil war in Syria.

[46] The Times reported «A beleaguered mayor raised the spectre of civil war in his borough as government inspectors swooped on his offices hunting for evidence of fraud, favours and unlawful spending.»

In 1986, at the height of the civil war in El Salvador, the Suffolk County Legislature declared the county a place of sanctuary for refugees fleeing conflict in Central America.

I've noticed increasing talk of civil war in the UK since the referendum: «Brexit tensions could lead to «blood on the streets» as part of «CIVIL WAR», warns peer» — https://www.express.co.uk/news/...

Which would put the attacker in a hypothetical state of civil war in which the attacking forces would not be able to request NATO assistance.

(Airs 5/10/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Syndey Schanberg and Actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg's coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

Assad is not worried about significant Western intervention because he believes that the West will not risk World War III with its ally Russia over its conduct of a civil war in which the West has only modest material interests, particularly given Donald Trump's history of a cozy relationship with Russia.

The torture and human rights abuses at home, the funding of civil war in Africa and the threats against the lives of Rwandans living in London suggested something had to be done.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

And they like the idea of a civil war in Iraq for example.

A major worry for Russia, however, would be the danger of a civil war in Crimea, leading possibly to a Crimean Tatar insurgency.

From 1861 until the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 70,000 Wisconsin troops trained at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin.

We played marbles and Three Steps to Germany and ring - a-leevio, and we flipped war cards, the favorite ones being the terrifically gory scenes of the civil war in Spain, the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Russo - Japanese war.

He had been an outspoken critic of the Assad government in Syria during the start of the civil war in the country.

For example, one of the Sojourners» original goals was to serve some of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced to San Francisco as a result of civil war in El Salvador.

Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States.

I've often wondered why god puts some souls into children to be born with AIDS in the middle of a civil war in Africa, and some children in healthy bodies in places like Beverly HIlls, CA.

The government has largely succeeded in protecting the country from the effects of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

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.

With her flashy sunglasses, bits of military garb, and amputated arm, this figure suggests the interplay of power and loss over decades of civil wars in Africa.

Not exact matches

In fact, the Siege of Veracruz was full of names that would eventually become essential pieces of the Civil War, including future Generals Meade, «Stonewall» Jackson, and Longstreet.

While Army private pay in the Spanish - American War was still $ 13 like it had been in the Civil War, a period of deflation had strengthened the purchasing power of that monthly salary.

The United States and the Saudi - led coalition that intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 accuse Iran of providing the missiles to its Houthi allies, which Tehran denies.

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

But that doesn't mean that all of these MCU villains are bad: they're just forgettable, even in some of the best movies to date including «Iron Man 3,» «Ant - Man,» and «Captain America: Civil War.»

The Spanish Civil War and the 36 years of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship feature heavily in his discourse.

As Dale Carnegie noted in his biography of the 16th president, «Lincoln the Unknown,» Lincoln once drafted a stern rebuke of General George Meade, who'd disobeyed Lincoln's orders during the Civil War.

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.

The Republic of China lost to the Mao Zedong - led People's Republic of China in the country's civil war ending in 1949 and had to flee to Taiwan.