Sentences with phrase «of civil war over»

The film tells the story of young refugees from Sudan caught in the middle of a civil war over religion and resources in the late 1980s.

The decline in the occurrence of civil war over the last two decades is substantial, and likely due in part to concerted international conflict management efforts.

Not exact matches

As the Communist Revolution swept over the mainland during the Chinese Civil War, the capitalists fled to Formosa (the island of Taiwan), but neither ceded statehood.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

The Republican civil war that erupted over the Tea Party's disregard of big business's agenda threatens to turn (big) business brother against (small) business brother in the 2014 Republican primaries.

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqWar Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqwar cries with a resounding «No!»

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

About three years of civil war followed, after which the Bolsheviks came out on top and took over the country.

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

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.»

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Mogadishu is a battle - ravaged capital, the epicenter of the over two - decade civil war that scattered millions of Somalis across the world.

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

Carried over from before the Revolution, it might have also been fortified by the meager, perilous years of the Civil War.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

As America passed beyond the Civil War, large numbers of German and Scandinavian peoples came over.

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.

This sort of evangelical synergism became increasingly difficult with the rise of Landmarkism (which also coincided with the controversy over slavery, the separation of Northern and Southern Baptists, and the Civil War).

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

What would the course of American history and the quality of our national life have been like over the past 110 years or so if the U.S. had not fought the Civil War?

Tony... you forgot so many others... U.S. civil war (slavery), War of 1812 (left over issues form A.R.), Korea (communist expansion), Vietnam (communist expansion), Mexican - American war (imperialism — texas too good to pass up), and the list goes war (slavery), War of 1812 (left over issues form A.R.), Korea (communist expansion), Vietnam (communist expansion), Mexican - American war (imperialism — texas too good to pass up), and the list goes War of 1812 (left over issues form A.R.), Korea (communist expansion), Vietnam (communist expansion), Mexican - American war (imperialism — texas too good to pass up), and the list goes war (imperialism — texas too good to pass up), and the list goes on.

If his second marriage were invalid, the children of that marriage would be illegitimate; the claim of illegitimacy would challenge their right to the throne and threaten civil war over the succession.

Those who seek «state's rights» over that of the Federal government are nothing more than the same bunch of traitors that started the Civil War.

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

For example, the CSGC considers about 20 pecent of the DRC civil war deaths to be martyrs, which heavily influences its tally (averaged over a decade).

Thus peace was the end of military strife fought over years of bloody civil wars.

In an age when nations are fragmenting» with some thirty «five civil wars underway over the face of the globe and cultural hatreds dormant sometimes for centuries now reawakening» Hungary seems to display a truly remarkable degree of cosmopolitan tolerance.

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.

When he comes to the crises of the Civil War, Carter takes pains to elaborate John C. Calhoun's defense of liberty over union and Lincoln's defense of union over liberty.

Reflecting on Polk's «acquisition of an empire in the Far Southwest,» he notes that this immediate triumph soon exacerbated the tensions over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

The Civil War was fought over the meaning and future of the Constitution.

With one vote, the US National Organic Standards Board may have created the perfect conditions for a civil war over the soul of the organic food concept.

When I looked over the 300 - foot drop, I realized this place fit every coordinate of the location of Hemingway's most searing description of the brutality of the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

When they're not doping their athletes systematically for the olympics or paying off FIFA for the right to host the WC or taking over (and, in the case of Hearts, ruining) British football clubs, they are busy rigging elections at home and abroad, fomenting civil war in the Middle East, annexing parts of other countries, sponsoring terrorism, and shooting people who try to stand up to them.

If we must have this repeat of the Civil War let us get it over with and hope that we can come out with something better next time.

I'd imagine it's difficult to uphold constitutional obligations of raising and funding a military, since the military was used during the Civil War to take down the confederate states; and those regions definitely had nothing to fork over for a while after that defeat.

Roosevelt suspended 9066 almost a year before the end of the war, Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 over the objections of most Republicans, and Korematsu's conviction was reversed coram nobis, and there have been perhaps hundreds of «legal scholars» who have used Korematsu as an example of a bad legal decision.

Iran's growing influence in the region, control over proxy governments in Syria and Lebanon, hold over parts of Iraqi politics and involvement in the civil war in Yemen has led to the strange bedfellows of Israel and Saudi Arabia finding common ground in counteracting Iranian influence.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

Over 1100 were killed, and had the coalition agreement not come when it did, the spectre of fully - blown Civil War was a genuine possibility.

caste your mind backs, we bombed the Bosnian serbs and the Serbia itself which killed over 3028 innocent men, women and children with cluster bombs etc all in the name of preventing genocide in the Bosnian and Kosovo civil wars, are the same people who supported the illegal bombing of the Bosnian Serbian forces and Serbia itself against the bombing of fascist, genocidal isis, with the exception of George Galloway and tony benn I think you are, maybe I am wrong, am i.

With the Queens GOP engaged in a great civil war, the loss of clout compounded by a pyrrhic victory by Phil Ragusa over Tom Ognibene, the party is in shambles and far too fractal to field any viable candidates.

When Angola finally gained independence in 1975, civil war quickly engrossed large portions of the territory, reversing gains over the previous two decades.

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 RussWar 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 Russwar in which the West has only modest material interests, particularly given Donald Trump's history of a cozy relationship with Russia.

The international community has wrung its hands over the Syrian civil war for months but now finds itself confronted with a new level of horror.

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?

The Tories experienced an outright civil war over House of Lords reform last parliament.