Sentences with phrase «of old wars»

And in the wake of old wars and rising conflicts, a legendary team plans its return.

As we have just seen, the predictions of apocalyptic war represent a reuse of the older war materials of the Old Testament.

Funny and informal — the only panelist wearing a tie was Aaron Sorkin — it had the feel of a reunion of old war buddies talking about life in the trenches.

Paths of Glory appeals to fans of old war movies and Kubrick buffs alike.

The Resistance Warrior Pack also includes a «Survivor of the Old War,» a new XCOM recruit who will appear in the Avenger's barracks.

XCOM 2 pre-orders will unlock the Resistance Warrior Pack, granting players additional soldier customization options (bonus outfits, headgear, and facial war paint) as well as a new XCOM recruit, a «Survivor of the Old War,» who will be available in the Avenger's barracks.

This has been the norm for the Call of Duty franchise, but with the setting of an old war filled with grit, courage and the horrors of being on the battlefield, players will need to seek cover and health kits to stay alive.

Not exact matches

The attacks in rapid succession were a grim reminder of the strength of both the Taliban and Islamic State's emerging Afghanistan branch to wreak violence despite stepped up U.S. air attacks under Trump's new policy for the 16 - year - old war.

Louis stems from Old French Loois, from Medieval Latin Ludovicus, a changed version of Old High Germany Hluodwig, meaning «famous in war.»

His surname ultimately comes from de la werre, meaning «of the war» in Old French.

This is one of Richmond's oldest neighborhoods — the red - brick row houses date from around the Civil War.

In 2013, a few years after returning from the war, the forty - four year old was diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, a diagnosis that the vice president said his entire family «knew was the equivalent of a death sentence.»

Instead, it's a re-birth of an old franchise — «Battlefront» — which puts players in a «Star Wars» sandbox of sorts, able to play with series favorites like Han Solo, Boba Fett, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia (among others).

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

He urged business leaders to shed the old metaphors of war and Darwinism.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

I exist at the older edge of the so - called «Millennial» generation, which has never experienced the dread of imminent thermonuclear war.

That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.

War is about to go the next level, but that doesn't mean some of the fundamental old rules shouldn't still apply.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Ward, says Cunningham, «alludes to the Old Testament and Greek mythology with equal frequency and intensity; for her, Katrina is comparable in significance to the Egyptian captivity or the aftermath of the Trojan War.»

While Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbor's 7 - year - old civil war, the nation has neither confirmed nor denied the raid.

In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

The definitive example is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a 2,000 - year - old book on military strategy that still resonates with entrepreneurs.

Like the Art of War, the Laozi is a 2000 - year - old text full of inscrutable and aphoristic sound bites.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

Whilst externally the aircraft is almost identical, the avionics of the current A-10C has virtually nothing to do with the old «Hawg» that became particularly famous as the «Tank - buster» during the first Gulf War 25 years.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..

«There's the old line about Canada being two nations warring in the bosom of a single state.

The founders of the three - year - old dads group, Rob Lanoue and Andrew Hamer, use words like «negotiate,» and speak about an increasing «war for talent» that makes it an economic must for companies like Deloitte to accommodate parents.

Old Taylor survived Prohibition (it was acquired by National Distillers, a forerunner of Beam Inc., in 1935); it also survived World War II, when liquor production was completely shut down so that distilleries could make industrial - grade alcohol for the military.

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.

Senator Bernie Sanders, a sponsor of the resolution, said the United States, a major provider of weapons to Saudi Arabia and intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis in Yemen, should not be involved in the three - year - old war that has unleashed the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

Excess capital from the financial crisis has finally been absorbed, while the aggregate capital stock is the oldest it's been since the end of World War II.

Back in the old days, when Uncle Sam swindled his creditors through inflation, he was burning his own taxpayers, since Americans owned over 90 per cent of US debt after World War II.

Kashuv has become part of a culture war far bigger and older than him taking place between liberals and conservatives over one of the most divisive issues in America.

These types of monetary competitions are built around the very real understanding that nuclear armed nations can not afford to fight old - fashioned, kinetic wars with each other.

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

Japan's «Bubble Economy» era occurred at the end of its three - decade old «Economic Miracle» that began after World War II and saw the country's fortunes blossom as it became the world's automobile and electronics manufacturing powerhouse.

The agreement Kim reached Friday with South Korean leader Moon Jae - in declared «a new era of peace» and sought a formal end to the seven - decade - old Korean War.

But that didn't matter; the stock declined because EA announced that the number of Star Wars Old Republic (SWOR) subscribers had dropped from 1.7 million to 1.3 million in a few months.

«He talked about the good old days, when we had to ship in pizza and it didn't feel like we were working around the clock, about times of war and times of peace.»

It's fascinating to see controversy stirred up over an old blog post by NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice in which he called World War I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqWar I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqwar» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.»

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We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

Most of the older moderate groups defeated in the long Baptist wars gave up on the Southern Baptist Convention some years ago and established their own groups outside» or, at best, on the margins of» the denomination.

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.