Sentences with phrase «of war spending»

Much of the war he spent poaching in the uniform of the Royal Artillery, his talents having been recognized in his early training days in Scotland by a perceptive commanding officer, who sent him on leave to Breconshire to collect his gaff, then relieved him of normal duties so that he could get to work on the Scottish salmon for the benefit of the Officers» Mess.

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One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

(Among those who disagree is Trump's ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, who has spent hundreds of hours at his side, and who thinks there's an «excellent chance» he will start a civilization - ending nuclear war.)

The first three weeks of December, however, have seen a lull in retail traffic and spending that has resulted in discounting wars.

In 2018, that game is the new «God of War» — an incredible, similarly epic journey that I spent two weeks playing more or less nonstop.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

That result may have doomed Perry's already slim chances of capturing the nomination, which raises the question: what better way could Perry have spent that huge war?

The president then explained that he and his advisors spent «days and weeks» worth of time meeting about Syria and trying to find a way to ease the suffering and end the civil war.

In tallying up the past spending, Bovard included $ 30 billion for the FBI, $ 70 billion for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) which oversees airport security, $ 200 billion for creation and operation of the Department of Homeland Security, $ 500 billion for NSA surveillance operations, and $ 3 trillion overall for war spending in the Middle East.

If Trump were to step up spending on the war and military hardware, most of that would likely end up on the nation's credit card.

This is no small matter to a country that already has spent literally trillions of dollars - and suffered the loss of nearly 7,000 military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq - since former Republican President George W. Bush launched the war on terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, April 18 - «Robust» business borrowing, rising consumer spending, and tight labor markets indicate the U.S. economy remains on track for continued growth, the Federal Reserve reported on Wednesday, with the risks of a global trade war the one big outlier.

But given Trump's unwillingness to stake out clear positions on taxes and spending, and his enthusiasm for threatening trade wars with China and Mexico, supporting Trump could risk elevating the populist, protectionist wing of the Republican party over the significant chunk of Republicans who believe in cutting spending and promoting free trade.

In June, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne readied skeptical Britons for the deepest hack to public spending since the Second World War by painting an almost utopian picture of the Canadian experience.

He was caught and sent to a concentration camp, where he spent the rest of the war.

Potholes the size of P.E.I., mummified patients spending eternity in emergency room lineups, a Senate whose sole purpose is to reward political cronies, our troops arriving in Afghanistan equipped with Swiss army knives and Korean War surplus.

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

Setting aside the enormous costs of the war (direct spending of over $ 700 billion on everything from construction, payouts to families of killed civilians to nonsense like designer goats and a $ 36 million unused command center), an even harder truth is this: There is nothing beyond the most tenuous of linkages between Afghanistan's security and governance and America's national security.

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

As it seeks to get a bigger slice of Americans» spending, Google just ramped up the delivery wars by expanding its same - day service.

Saudis need financing for the war in Yemen and a generous system of state handouts (government spending cuts have limits, especially when some 90 percent of the population is employed by the government).

Harper is spending considerable political energy beating the drums of war against terrorists, and introducing a far - reaching, and much condemned, bill aimed at restricting -LSB-...]

Activision Blizzard's revenue and profit rose by double - digit percentages thanks to increased in - game spending in key titles such as «Call of Duty: World War II» and «Candy Crush Saga.»

The Bretton Woods system failed due to the over valuation of the dollar as spending increased over the war in Vietnam war and America's Great Society programs.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

Add to that the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the reduction in military spending.

Of course, soon after Hansen published his views, U.S. growth took off amid a burst of spending and demand related to the Second World WaOf course, soon after Hansen published his views, U.S. growth took off amid a burst of spending and demand related to the Second World Waof spending and demand related to the Second World War.

Consumer confidence and discretionary spending, fear of terrorism or war, weakening economic conditions, fare initiatives, labor actions, weather and other factors have resulted in significant fluctuations in revenues and results of operations in the past.

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.

At that time, economists feared a major recession, which historically had followed major wars, and the Federal government intended to be ready for resumption of the New Deal's fiscal policy of massive, albeit feckless, spending to create full employment.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

This week the United States Treasury began selling $ 100 billion in new bonds to begin financing of what is the biggest federal spending program since World War II.

Both periods of inflation were the result of heavy government spending during the war years.

The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the biggest increase in public spending since the Second World War.

On hold, if not vanished, are the revived battles of the Civil War of 150 years ago and President Donald Trump's foolhardy insistence that he will shut down the government if Congress does not authorize spending for a wall along the southern border.

The father of cellist Yo - Yo Ma spent World War II in Paris, where he lived alone in a garret throughout the German occupation.

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.»

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

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

We need to get out of war, we need to stop giving money to jobless people, we need to stop spending money, period.

That is, it was done prematurely without sufficient legal and international underpinnings and support and the end result was the Arab - Israel war which has led right up to where we are right now with over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims, 4500 US soldiers dead, and trillions of dollars spent.

To the German people, stunned by the war and the consequences of defeat, their former optimism shattered and spent, shuddering to contemplate the debt - darkened years of the future, Barth in the phase of his dreadful insight into the futility of all search for security must seem a veritable Jeremiah, and his teaching an evilly perfect rationalization of their indigence and perplexity.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Having spent my whole life listening to stories of German occupation I am full of warmth after reading this story - My grandparents and other relatives lived throught the war and some escaped the Nazi regime as well.

Incorrect Answers Question: If taxes equal government spending, then: Your Answer: government debt is zero Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average Question: The Puritans: Your Answer: opposed all wars on moral grounds Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Following the Lord's instruction in Matthew 6:6 — «When you pray, go into your room, close the door... Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you» — Clara reveals she has created her own private «war room» — a transformed closet, with prayers and scriptural references posted all over the walls — where she has spent many hours, invoking the name of Jesus and asking for His guidance and support.