Sentences with phrase «of a civil war between»

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

Currently in development by the acclaimed team at High Moon Studios, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes fans through the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons as they fight for control of their dying planet, ultimately leading to their storied exodus from home.

A subsequent period of civil war between Chinese Communists and Nationalists lasting more twenty years culminated in victory for the Communists and in 1949, The People's Republic of China - the country's official title today - was established.

It's the sequel to the surprisingly impressive War For Cybertron that will take fans through the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons as they fight for control of their dying planet, ultimately leading to their famous exodus from home.

Not exact matches

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.

The ongoing civil war in Yemen is akin to a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and their competing ideologies of Sunni and Shia Islam, respectively.

Omran has become a symbol of the ongoing civil war in Syria, but he is just one of an estimated 75,000 children fighting to survive in eastern Aleppo, the divided and once - great city at the heart of the struggle between the regime of Bashar Assad and the rebels attempting to oust him.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

The crisis — spurred largely by Syria's civil war — has caused numerous political spats, leading to the construction of walls around certain countries and the closing of borders between others.

According to Reuters, Putin's role as intermediary between Riyadh and Tehran was pivotal, and is a «testament to the rising influence of Russia in the Middle East since its military intervention in the Syrian civil war just over a year ago.»

One source says a «mini civil war» has broken out between those who joined Otto in search of the independence of a startup, and those who joined Uber's ATG with ambitions to solidify the company's place in the future of transportation.

The civil war that has been ravaging the country and the world for the better part of the last decade is largely seen as a proxy war between larger players.

Hayek's belief that the pre-Fed US system did not restrain credit creation firmly enough is understandable in light of the five financial panics during the fifty years of the federally regulated «National Banking system» that prevailed between the Civil War and the First World War.

Will the sign of caucus support for Ms. Smith's leadership put an end to the Wildrose «civil war» between pragmatic and ideological conservatives that Mr. Anglin referred to in a Facebook post yesterday?

On the subject of a possible civil war between Christians and Muslims, he said: «They [Christians] have lost people and they're angry.

Mass immigration has introduced new ethnic and religious loyalties (Arab and Muslim) and provoked nativist responses (white and at least culturally Catholic) that seek to curb immigration, restore traditional conceptions of national identity, and, at their most extreme, precipitate a supposedly inevitable civil war between natives and immigrants.

It's part of an ongoing civil war between forces local to the President and those loyal to an opposition group led by former Vice-President Riek Machar.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

The war between right and wrong, good and evil, the old self and new self in Christ rages on, and so to look for instructions and fulfillment on how to live better lives is like looking to a country in the midst of civil war for instructions on how to set up a functioning government.

And I'm curious if she stands by her recommendation of that biography of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins, who contends the Civil War was a clash between a Christian South and a godless North.

A new report estimates that between half and 80 per cent of Christians have left Syria and Iraq since the Syrian civil war started in 2011.

His analysis of the Spanish Civil War, which captures the clash between religion and politics, is exceptional.

The Battle of the Severn (1655) was a battle of the English Civil war fought between Puritans and Catholics in Providence (later Annapolis, MD).

Christians, who form about 10 percent of the Syrian population, are essentially middle men in this civil war, caught between Assad's army and the Sunni rebels.

There was no civil war in the early church between followers of James and followers of Paul, was there?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Evangelical Protestant institutions partook to a much lesser degree in either the academic enhancement or the secularization of their mainstream cousins during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Most of Italy came under the rule of Charlemagne and this led to future conflicts between the Emperor and the Pope that eventually led to civil war.

Located in the historic, LEED - certified Empire Stores building, a Civil War era landmarked cargo warehouse, nestled between the iconic Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the design of SUGARCANE raw bar grill carries the essence of the flagship in Miami while advancing its spirit to the Brooklyn waterfront in New York City.

With time to explore this land and her culture, Don Quixote, Velazquez's Las Meninas, and the Alhambra Palace come at your heart like a love - letter stuffed inside a Molotov cocktail, a weapon first used during «Le Guerra,» the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the RepublicaWar, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicawar between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicans.

A sort of eight - hour rolling brawl, it's a cross between rugby, soccer and civil war.

At this point, a major issue still stems from the battle between states» rights and the jurisdiction of the federal government, which was the major crux of the Civil War back in 1865.

Ujkani, who is now 28 and plays his club football for Pisa on loan from Genoa, emigrated to Belgium with his family in 1994 with the spectre of civil war looming between ethnic Albanians and Serb.

To understand the rivalry between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid you must travel back to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francesco Franco that followed the wWar and the dictatorship of Francesco Franco that followed the warwar.

Between 2011 and 2013, the group that was called al - Qaeda in Iraq and soon became the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had a resurgence due primarily to the effects of the Syrian civil war.

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

The track record of international conflict management in civil wars since the end of the Cold War has been impressive, with internationally facilitated negotiated ends to long wars in Guatemala, Mozambique, Burundi, El Salvador, and between northern and southern Sudan.

Is this possible in practice between Turkey and Greece at the moment, or has it been at any time since the start of the Syrian civil war?

On Wednesday afternoon in his Manhattan office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sat between two formerly sworn Democratic rivals — Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Senator Jeffrey D. Klein — and declared a truce in their seven - year civil war, one that has intensified since the election of President Trump.

In the largest protests in the country for decades, thousands of civilians have been killed and the situation has the potential to turn into a civil war between the government, the opposition, and Islamist groups.

He described Adebayo as a true face of Yoruba nation and Nigeria, who genuinely fought for the unity of the country during the civil war that nearly ripped the country apart between 1967 and 1970.

There is an ongoing and active civil war in Syria that will not end until there is either a formal diplomatic partition of Syria between the factions that currently control territory there, or Assad (or some other faction) uses military power to control the entire country.

'' Irrespective of the First Republic taken off on an unstable ground due to some political exigencies that consequently led to the Nigerian civil war between 1967 — 1970, Nigeria had in the recent past recorded giant strides in her efforts to stand among comity of nations on social, economic, political and democratic governance.

There's nothing short of an open civil war going on between factions of the Brooklyn GOP right now, so Republican politics in the borough are heated, to say the least.

He added that Adebayo fought relentlessly for the unity of the country during the civil war that ravaged the country between 1967 and 1970, and that he suggested to the federal government to opt for dialogue rather than the use of force.

But the six - hour debate, in which Mrs May said she would use nuclear weapons if pushed, split Labour MPs three ways and sparked extraordinary scenes of open civil war between them.

It ought to be a statement of the obvious that Labour is fighting a civil war between revolutionary socialists and...

«The BBC Trust is facing the axe after the outbreak of «civil war» between its chairman, Lord Patten, and Mark Thompson, the former director - general, over excessive pay - offs to senior executives.