Sentences with phrase «of outbreak of war»

He concluded that the contingency of the outbreak of war, which had occurred before the damages fell to be considered in the arbitration, could be taken into account.

But Orwell — a hero of mine, as it happens — was writing very specifically here about the impact of the outbreak of war on British politics of the time (he was also, of course, writing in the shadow of the Soviet - Nazi pact, which had caused many on the left to question their allegiances).

Chamberlain and appeasement have been in the headlines this summer with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of war.

In this way, MacMillan takes the reader through a logical and persuasive account of the outbreak of the war — providing you with an understanding of how both the alliance system and prevailing ideologies interacted with the events leading up to the outbreak of the war in such a way as to make seemingly unintelligible developments comprehensible.

Not exact matches

It ultimately took the outbreak of World War II to help the US wrench itself out of the protracted slump.

If the objective is to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and avoid the outbreak of war, high - profile military exercises and additional deployments may do more harm than good.

«As our business is involved with sending people overseas we needed to ensure that we are diversified across many countries and regions to avoid the risks of things like flu outbreak, terrorist attacks, war in the region, government unrest, natural disasters, etc.,» says David.

A sudden interest rate hike, faster inflation or an outbreak of war in the Ukraine, for instance, could be catalysts for 10 % - plus drop.

Geoffrey Wawro: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

Stocks have returned to autopilot despite the threat of trade wars and prospect of an inflationary outbreak in the U.S..

Dire economic conditions following the First World War intensified antagonisms between nations that would eventually lead to the outbreak of World War II.

A partial but not complete list of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after effects or Taiwan action, global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks, trade wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging market bond default, a bank derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.

The tourism / leisure and manufacturing / food industries saw the largest increases in the number of warnings, reflecting the outbreak of SARS in Asia, the Iraq war and weak global economy.

This rebound reflects a general recovery in international travel following the containment of SARS, with the number of short - term visitor arrivals in September the highest in over two years and well above the level recorded prior to the war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak (Graph 46).

Geoff had completed training for the British Colonial Service and, despite the outbreak of war, had been posted to a district office in Malacca.

James Buchanan (15th President — D - PA) is universally listed as the worst president for his actions leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Years ago, at the outbreak of the first Iraq war, I was to give some lectures at the Washington cathedral for the continuing education of Episcopal clergy.

Could the social and political circumstances in Europe in the years after 1910 explain the outbreak of the terrifying hostilities of World War I?

According to ACN, the cost of living has spiralled upward — since the war's outbreak the price of wheat flour has increased by 300 percent and rice by 650 percent.

Shortly before the outbreak of the war, Bonhoeffer was studying in the United States and became personally acquainted with Reinhold Niebuhr and other major American thinkers.

But they presage the opening dirgelike phrases of his Decline and Restoration, the «other book» that weighed upon his heart from his very first days at the university but which he did not actually begin to write until after the outbreak of World War I, in 1914:

Or an outbreak of war may cut off trading channels, resulting in equally serious disruptions in exporting societies.

For over two hundred years» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decades).

Unless we are prepared to rule out any advance in New Testament scholarship in Germany since the outbreak of the war, like Ethelbert Stauffer in the preface to the third edition of his Theologie des Neuen Testaments (Stuttgart, 1947, p. v) we must surely recognize such an advance in this debate.

The unexpected peaceful outcome of John Paul II's consecration of 1984 averted the threat of another war in Europe, and validates Sr Lucia's plea just before the outbreak of the second World War, on 20 March 19war in Europe, and validates Sr Lucia's plea just before the outbreak of the second World War, on 20 March 19War, on 20 March 1939.

On that same day Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen accepted the Crown of Spain, an event that three weeks later led to the outbreak of the Franco - Prussian War.

It is part of the folklore of 20th - century theology that, with the outbreak of World War I, Barth became disillusioned with his own theological liberalism.

Seventy «two percent of the Jews of Germany did escape before flight became impossible, as did two «thirds of the Jews of Austria, most in the only seventeen months between the March 1938 Anschluss and the outbreak of war at the end of August 1939.

He loved Germany, hated militarism, and was deeply troubled by the outbreak of World War I.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the Soviets sentenced Begin to eight years in Siberia for the crime of Zionism.

What has been done needs greatly to be extended, both as a ministry of helpfulness to human beings and as one of the surest bulwarks against Communism and the outbreak of war.

More important, however, is what Christians as both pacifists and nonpacifists can together do to remove the causes and avert the outbreak of war.

His last years were clouded by the outbreak of the First World War.

The outbreak of a particularly vicious and meaningless little war in Asia that stymied America's leadership both militarily and politically for years on end, acted as a catalyst but did not cause the crisis.

Plans for the formation of the World Council of Churches were well advanced before the outbreak of the Second World War, but only came to fruition in 1948.

These were the years that brought Marxist communism to China and to many other parts of the world.21 The outbreak of the First World War marked the beginning of a new era.

Originally the Conference was to have met in Hangchow in China and plans were already far advanced when the outbreak of the war between China and Japan made it impossible.

But by the outbreak of World War I they totaled less than one per cent of the population.

The nineteenth century, beginning in 1815 with the close of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon and terminated in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I, saw the heyday of Western imperialism and colonialism.

The result is a readable, intelligent, and highly competent survey of the intense sectional controversies that arose over the issue of the extension of slavery to the western territories from the 1840s until the outbreak of war.

The typewritten letter, hand - signed «A. Einstein,» was written just under three months before the outbreak of World War II, when the persecution of Jews was already well underway.

These minorities have, however, in general become very much larger in the years since the outbreak of the War of 1914 - 1918.

Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

There was an aura of grim inevitability to it, reminiscent of the week before the outbreak of a major war.

The Radetzky March ends with the outbreak of the First World War but within the pages there is a sense of foreboding.

SJuan76 according to a book I read Aosta Valley was virtually 100 % francophone when it was annexed in 1868 and was only 4 % italian speaking in 1914 at Great War outbreak (most Italians lived in Aosta city itself - the rest of the valley being exclusively francophone)(with the exception of 3 communes with some sort of Germannic settlement).

The outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011 allowed the group to transfer its operation to Syria and move freely across international borders.

Most, if not all reasons advanced for their appeals for me to reembrace my initial position are based on fears of a military confrontation that leads to violence and concerns for an outbreak of war in our peaceful country of ours.

This resulted in the outbreak of the Iraq — Iran War and the alliance of the Sunni Gulf States with Iraq.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.