Sentences with phrase «of unconditional surrender»

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender consists of a group exhibition, lectures, a museum night and publication, in which the experience of the exhibited objects to the audience is put to the test.

Haris Epaminonda: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Group show curated by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk).

I don't think that argument holds merit because Japan at the time of its unconditional surrender had already been bombed twice by nuclear weapons.

He hoped that the Allied mandate of unconditional surrender might be changed if Hitler were overthrown and a new government formed, but the Allied forces proved adamant.

During the conference, Allied leaders settled on a policy of unconditional surrender.

Not exact matches

Take it from William Wooditch, author of «Always Forward: Discover the 7 Secrets of Sales Success,» which is centered around the idea that people can not sustain forward movement without the unconditional resolve to give and do their best every day, without retreat or surrender.

In the early morning hours of May 7, 1945, the remnants of Nazi Germany's military leadership signed an unconditional surrender to Allied forces.

«Hitler couldn't afford to accept unconditional surrender, so what may prove to be the legend of his meeting a hero's death had to be staged,» he went on.

The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).

Other criticisms are perhaps the result of Christians» being so in thrall to the tropes and conventions of Western politics, and so convinced of their own social importance, that they hear any call to break with that culture as a call for unconditional surrender.

Yet the scale of the air war has gone far beyond the UN authorization, as did the continuing escalation of the war aims so that by February 15 Pentagon projections were assuming the demand for unconditional surrender rather than withdrawal, and by February 25 flanking actions were undertaken to prevent withdrawal.

Margaret Tutwiler informed us that when the President had told conservative Protestant broadcasters that the U.S. wanted unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial, he was expressing his emotions, not policy; that when Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet colleague Alexander Bessmertnykh said that the coalition would accept a cease - fire and would promise a regional peace conference, that was inoperative because it had not been checked.

He underscores, too, the way in which the Allied goal of «unconditional surrender» hobbled their efforts to gain support, both inside and outside Germany, for the prospect of what today we might call regime change.

Her Prime Minister, however, decided in the spirit of the Maccabees that the aim of this war was the unconditional surrender of Hitler's Germany.

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

Newman considered that «the most noble repentance, the most decorous conduct in a conscious sinner is an unconditional surrender of oneself to God — not a bargaining about terms, not a scheming (so as to call it) to be received back again, but an instant surrender in the first case.»

Through the gift of unconditional love, I found myself willing to surrender to the present moment and to embrace change.

Yesterday's concessions by the Coalition, in respect of the public sector pensions negotiations, verge on an unconditional surrender to the unions, perhaps on a scale unprecedented in the history of public sector labour negotiations.

In XCOM 2 twenty years have passed since world leaders offered an unconditional surrender to the alien forces of the first game.

Twenty years have passed since world leaders offered an unconditional surrender to alien forces and XCOM, the planet's last line of defense, was left decimated and scattered.