Sentences with phrase «of a war zone in»

And last year, he found himself in the middle of a war zone in Armenia.

Remember the airlift of children out of war zones in WWII?

Not exact matches

The time change report confirmed news from South Korean officials on Sunday that Kim pledged to scrap the northern time zone, which was created in 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule after World War Two.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

For them, postservice entrepreneurship has been a way to reclaim some of the intensity of life in a war zone and to challenge themselves to do something incredibly difficult and valuable again.

It's not even clear that wealth itself is an aspirational goal anymore — at least not one that anyone will admit to out loud (especially in the combat zone of Toronto's emerging class war).

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

The pattern of operations in 2017 in what the Obama administration used to call areas «outside of active hostilities» (or active war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria) indicated that the US will continue the reinvigorated air campaign in these theaters in the coming years.

The Obama administration declared during Operation Odyssey Lightning that Libya was an area of «active hostilities,» thus those strikes took place in what was essentially an active war zone.

With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.

President Moon Jae - in met with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone in an event that was aired around the world last Friday, when the two leaders agreed to formally end the 68 - year - old Korean War and to work toward the «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula.

Concerns that a deal in the telecom sector might not pass government muster and renewed fears of a trade war with the euro zone, combined to take stocks lower.

I speak of our listening devices for a reason, I DID spend nearly 5 years deployed in our war zones.

So, a poor Muslim villager in a remote desert in the middle of a war zone is much more cleaner than the president of the USA.

He is in and out of helicopters, war zones, and armed caravans with the alacrity of a gospel - toting James Bond.

As ISIS flees, some of the first frontline Christians already know how to follow Jesus in a war zone.

A parallel to Africa's «blood diamonds,» where mines in a war zone are looted to finance military operations, ancient artifacts are helping to fund ISIS's reign of terror.

The United States government has revealed very little of what has happened in the war zone.

When we sent in thousands of troops, do you think they sent combatants to trial in a war zone, or shot at them?

In fact this was demonstrated very effectively as recently as 1955, when, following World War II, the occupying Soviet Army voluntarily left the Eastern zone of Austria.

From this perspective, Dark makes an excellent case for the benefits of historical revisionism, arguing that «our commitment to remembering well, to the details of what really happened in tragic personal histories, war zones, and under the watch of negligent governments, is, it seems to me, inescapably tied to the struggle to think, speak, and listen redemptively.»

They also learned about how the cathedral's work continues today in war zones around the globe and through organisations such as the Community of the Cross of Nails.

You saved my life, coffee without cookies first thing in the morning is a war zone and I was out of coconut flour for regular cookies.

It would not surprise me that their official version of this biscuit was more like hard - tack, as they did have to use it for rations in a war - zone closer to Hell than almost any other, and supply lines which mostly were inoperable.

Since the end of World War II a steady stream of sports stamps has come from other Communist countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Democratic Germany (Russian Zone), Communist China, Tito's Yugoslavia and her Zone B in Trieste, Romania and Poland.

be it england german or france, cause the citizens of the famous european countries do nt have as much fire or will to fight as the immigrant of war countries / financially «handicapped» sub-countries like sanchez put it rightly, these spoiled kids of the rich countries have bee too long in their comfort zones, while the secondos are had to fight for a lot of things while a lot of the citizens helped them another side of the citizens (people like you) confronted them with racial views and ridicule..

Some of the fanatic Napoli boosters in the end zone, the «Southboys,» with their smoke bombs and Confederate flags from the American Civil War, sing their traditional chant, «Maradona is better than Pelè.

United will play in unfamiliar surroundings, travelling to Odessa, as Luhansk is a war zone and football has been taken to the west side of the country.

And one particular study shows that people who live in these war zones have increased levels of stress.

Nancy Updike goes to Iraq to try to figure out what it's like to be a private citizen working in the middle of a war zone.

Think also of the applications in war zones or disaster relief — you'll just need a way to get the device home to so you can get it back to Rite Aid.

They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.

As a result, the building looks like a war zone, everything is busted, there are live electrical wires hanging in the corridors (but the utility guys were nice enough to provide «DANGER OF DEATH DO NOT TOUCH» stickers).

-- The owner of two Korean War - era power plants near Buffalo received more than $ 190 million in Empire Zone tax credits between 2003 and 2015.

As a man with a penchant for war zone tourism, Levy has trotted the globe in response to each new outbreak of conflict; ostensibly in order to attract public attention to the issue (and, arguably, to himself); each time proclaiming his solution to the crisis within a few weeks of arrival.

However, President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki called on the federal government and security agencies to live up to expectation in the war raven zone.

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Several planes had been shot down in that area, regardless of whether or not it's officially a war zone.

Regardless of who shot down the plane and taking into account that (non-civil) planes had been shot down before, is Ukraine in part responsible for allowing civil planes to fly over a war zone?

But they turned 18, so the UK government shipped them back to a war zone — a country in which its own ministers say there is no possibility of safe return.

The meeting which has been slated to hold today, Wednesday and tomorrow, Thursday, is being put up to unify warring factions in the southwest zone of the party.

The government has been accused of blocking attempts to regulate private security contractors operating in war zones around the world, despite recent incidents showing mercenaries killing indiscriminately in Iraq.

It's a war zone and people are in a total panic,» he said with a sense of exhaustion.

Lots of people told me I would never be deported, that no civilised country in the world would ever deport people to a war zone like Somalia.

I was in the Virgin Islands at the request of the governor there for a couple weeks, and it was just a war zone.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, took part in a four - person congressional delegation tour of the war zones led by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.

He says that the expected power shift would be used to assuage the pains of the zone, which he said, was punished by the PDP in 1998 because of the general conviction of the Biafra war they fought against the rest of the country.

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

This opens the door to the creation of larger mats that could soak up toxic chemicals in places like war zones.

Although the Bodélé depression is near the war zone in Darfur, Sudan, Charlie Bristow of Birkbeck, University of London, and his colleagues managed to collect and analyse 28 samples during an expedition in 2005.