Sentences with phrase «one's war efforts»

And I've failed missions, which hurts the overall war effort.
All are part of the same unified war effort.
Wheat became a major war effort financial tool not long after.
However, Isle Petit Anses salt deposits became a primary focal point of war efforts in the tug - of - war between the North and the South where salt was a vital commodity for civilian and military uses.
Economy Structure: Planets possess stores of both radioactive and metals which are vital for war efforts.
Do we really need a game glorifying the allied war efforts in Afghanistan?
He might begin with the U.S. - allied war efforts against ISIS, which has had its difficulties since Obama first authorized stepped up airstrikes and some ground action in mid-204.
Nicola Dove STX Films Screenwriters Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin, left) and Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) work on uplifting movies for the British war effort during World War II, in the romantic comedy - drama Their Finest.
Adapted from Lissa Evans's 2009 novel «Their Finest Hour and a Half,» the movie follows a group of screenwriters tasked with creating propaganda for the British war effort in the midst of the London blitz.
The latest clip takes another derisive look at the American war effort in Afghanistan, with McMahon quickly discovering the absurdity of what's going down.
In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about U.S. 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.
The Camoufleur series explores the interdependencies between war and art from two perspectives: the long history of military intelligence services «surprising «interventions» in popular culture; and how artists themselves have been conscripted into war efforts, either consciously or covertly.
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort Read More
As the Vietnam War effort winds down, crypto - zoologist Bill Randa (John Goodman) grasps his last opportunity to oversee a military - led exploration of Skull Island, an uncharted South Pacific jungle paradise.
Summer Brenner discusses her community projects in Richmond that reveal how the Bay Area shifted and served the larger war effort of the 1940s, while Smith discusses her research into the SFMOMA Arts & Skills Service program.
That difference makes sense in the context of 1940s occupied Paris, when the Germans instituted laws requiring that people turn in certain metals to go toward war efforts, Casadio said.
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.
During the war Nissan and Datsun produced vehicles for the Japanese war effort with the former even moving its plant to China during the Japanese occupation.
And when McDougall criticizes the Roosevelt administration for «pretending its own war effort was a civil religious crusade for human rights and fundamental freedoms,» he ignores that all leaders in all wars present their efforts as a heroic quest rather than a pointless slaughter.
• The United States as part of its diplomatic war effort also worked to narrow Nicaragua's options in terms of aid, trade, and military assistance.
Greenspan said, «Bitcoin is not rational,» and compared it with a fiat currency that the U.S. Continental Congress minted in 1775 to finance the American revolutionary war effort.
But they're a special genre of Hollywood war effort films featuring tons of cameos by famous stars, which makes them an interesting snapshot into the studio system of the time.
One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.
And the Afghan war effort, which was then supporting more than 70,000 U.S. troops, compared with around 16,000 now, endured.
By the end of 1942, POWs were being used as forced labour as the Japanese war effort intensified.
I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.
At a minimum, Shriver calls us to such reflection before either joining or resisting the contemporary war effort.
He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.
The Allied war effort seemed to him to be obscene, life imitating Guernica, chaos come again.
While he doesn't claim victory at this date, Mr. Nuechterlein cheers on the early war efforts and denigrates the antiwar critics for speaking of a «quagmire»» though they might respond that a quagmire may be just a damp spot on the sand in the beginning.
Since the end of the Cold War efforts to promote democracy — by strengthening parliaments, supporting political parties and building the capacity of civil society — have become common place.
This was overturned by the Supreme Court (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer), who ruled that even though the President had legitimate national security concerns (steel was essential for the Korean war effort), he lacked the authority to do so.
It was a storage facility for the World War II war effort.
Years later Tomonaga and Schwinger were to note astonishing parallels in their careers: both had worked on radar, wave propagation and magnetrons as part of their respective war efforts, and both used Heisenberg's theory to solve the same problem.
In addition, the bill includes $ 79.4 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) for the ongoing war efforts abroad, the same level assumed in the President's budget request and in the House - passed National Defense Authorization Act.
Production of these compounds was vastly accelerated by mid-century war efforts, where quick - to - manufacture plastics were helpful for replacing other materials such as natural rubber, which was in short supply at the time.
CASABLANCA — Night Train to Munich was kind of a first salvo in the British Cinema war effort.
(The Nazi war effort included a plan to destabilize the British economy by flooding it with phoney money.)
This warm - hearted and intelligent film is co-produced by the legendary Stephen Woolley (of A Company Of Wolves and The Crying Game amongst others), who with Amanda Posey and Elizabeth Karlsen delved into the archives and uncovered the fascinating truth behind the celluloid war effort.
A selection of those films directly inspired by the war and war efforts play tonight, then several other non-war themed 1940s films play Wednesday night as part of the series.
Tom Cruise plays Cage, the face of the propaganda machine for the global war effort that's badly losing a war with the Mimics; a race of tentacled aliens that almost seem to know what the humans are going to do before they do it.
Margherita Sarfatti (Susan Sarandon), a representative for Mussolini, gives valuable paintings to millionaires, one of whom is one Grey Mathers (Philip Baker Hall), in return for their support of the Italian war effort.
Women were also crucial to the Patriot war effort, running the farms and shops, keeping families together.
World War II and the Post-War Changes The Second World War effort brought new activity to the Channel Islands.
Explosionade is a game about a fat soldier with poor trash - talking abilities who discovers a prototype mecha, GRenaDOS, sitting alone and unused in his base's garage, and like all people who jump into prototype mecha they have no permission to use and with no prior training, his destiny is to single - handedly change the entire war effort.
Combining the earnest tone and formal elements of 1940's war effort posters with the opportunistic use of patriotism by such marketers as Tommy Hilfiger, this campaign ironically positions the butch lesbian as the embodiment of the truly revolutionary American spirit.
In 2016, Lum completed a memorial to the Canadian war effort in Italy during World War II [42] Lum's memorial centered on the Battle of Ortona where Canadian troops were victorious but suffered heavy losses.
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