Sentences with phrase «of war deaths»

Most of the war death in the 20th century was caused by nationalism, with a few other factors in the mix — greed, pride, alliances, border disputes, racial prejudice and so on.

Not exact matches

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foresWar II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain foreswar on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Their deaths are supposed be rewarded with an eternal visit to Valhalla, the heavenly place that is a central aspect of both Norse and War Boy mythology.

He once memorized 2,300 names of fallen US soldiers from the war in Afghanistan, in the order of their death.

Despite his low chances of surviving the war without death or injury, the average frontline soldier of the Great War was, as we might say today, in it to win war without death or injury, the average frontline soldier of the Great War was, as we might say today, in it to win War was, as we might say today, in it to win it.

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.»

The annual death toll far exceeds the total number of U.S. military killed in more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Still, it's worth taking this time to look at Thiel's rise to fame in the tech capital of the world — a saga that includes his effort to stop aging and death, his controversial thoughts about college, and his war with the media:

Gamora's death was the most shocking and emotionally powerful in «Infinity War,» as Thanos throws his adopted daughter off of a cliff in order to retrieve the Soul Stone.

Ansi's reported death suggests the covert U.S. drone program against the Yemen branch of the global militant group is continuing, despite the evacuation of American military advisers from the country amid a worsening civil war.

Jim Rickards, the author of «Currency Wars,» «The Death of Money,» and «The New Case for Gold,» and most recently «The Road to Ruin,» is no stranger to financial meltdowns.

But Malone isn't one of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.

Ramsay has called US stock markets «convoluted» and «illogical» and likened their structure to the Death Star of Star Wars.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment of refugees, prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.

is the author of the international bestsellers Currency Wars and The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

Many Christians are currently avid supporters of war, the death penalty, and using their political power to enforce their beliefs upon others.

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

Francis's #prayforpeace day brought more categorical condemnations of war: «Violence and war lead only to death,» the pontiff exclaimed, «they speak of death!»

It makes me very nervous that Islam today finds more and more acceptance in the Western World though it is clear that it is a religion of war, evil, destruction, death, sorrow, torture, pain, doom, darkness, backwardness, hatred, revenge, bossiness, etc..

February 12, 2009 — Makes a statement denouncing anti-Semitism a month after a scandal involving a bishop denying the death toll of Jews killed in concentration camps during World War II.

Yet this idiots are always provoking wars and death since the yrs of the 1200s.

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

For those of us who are non believers, we know for sure Hitler existed and that he was in charge of a sickening war that caused the deaths of millions of innocents.

The culture of death we see clearly in the gang violence on our streets and in the perpetual war that has ravaged homes in Iraq is just as real, though often harder to see, in the self - centeredness of our shopping malls and the loneliness of our workspaces.

It's a tribute to the human spirit in a time of war that potentially had no consequences other than death for the harboring family.

This type of religious zealot dribble and criticizing is what causes war, death and hatred for fellow man / woman... all in the name of religion.

Religion is the bane of man — responsible for more wars and deaths and holding us back from our true potential.

Ah, but Christianity has a really bad history of having done horrific things like burning heretics and pressing witches to death under rocks and inquisitions and torture and war and all.

«Especially in these days, may he sustain the efforts of all those actively engaged in bringing comfort and relief to the civil population in Syria, prey to a war that continues to sow horror and death.

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan By Ian Buruma Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 330 pages, $ 25 Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932 - 45 and the American Cover - Up By Sheldon Harris Routledge, 295 Pages, $ 25 Fifty years have elapsed since the close of the Second....

Even though it has only been around a «short time», the impact of this religion based on an «imaginary guy in the sky» has caused numerous deaths and wars.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

Further the death of this person is not going to stop an ideology - i think this burning hatred for american and western policies will remain and this is where the real war needs to be waged - that is to change the minds of the people.

I suppose that the «holy» wars» deaths» and the conversion techniques of such times as the Spanish Inquisition, and such nice fellows as Sain Olaf, who chopped the heads off of non-convertable Europeans, all is simply a figment of the imagination.

considering the teaching of Christ has inspired more wars then any other theology in the history of the world, and the reverence of the god of death destruction and lies i would say their more then justified in any and all war.

As the drums for war become deafening, I hope students at Liberty and in schools across the land, and working people in churches and work places will rise up and repudiate the policies of War, Famine, Pestilence and Deawar become deafening, I hope students at Liberty and in schools across the land, and working people in churches and work places will rise up and repudiate the policies of War, Famine, Pestilence and DeaWar, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

By his death, there was a growing and powerful Calvinist presence in France, which can be seen as triggering the wars of religion in that country.

As an aside, the irony might be lost on you that, despite the fact that so many atheists here are so quick to note that believers do not have a monopoly on morals, you are essentially proving the point of believers that, from a historical perspective, atheists far more than believers have lacked morals vis - a-vis war and death.

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

During the Vietnam war, pictures of death and destruction filled our television screens.

It's the kind of faith that has people believing God will ensure victory in war and leads to the death of people who rely on faith healing instead modern medicine.

When finding war and death in history you do not have to look very hard to find a so called atheist in the woodpile.True Christians are free from causing wars but so called atheists stealing the t itle of christian are quite common.

In The World at War a holocaust survivor tells a story of a Jewish Rabbi who prays for God to save the Jews being put to death in the camps.

So before you regurgitate old canards about religion vis - a-vis wars and death, you might want to do some actual research of your own.

Oh yeah, and who do millenials blame for the death and destruction of vicious war on this planet?