Sentences with phrase «other side of the war»

But unlike the often sentimentalized views of modern pacifists, the Greeks never lost sight of the other side of war: its frequent necessity.

Each of them is caught up in some kind of conflict or other side of the war that you had no involvement in.

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Fellow billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who famously had a war of words with Ackman on CNBC in 2013, took the other side of Herbalife trade.

They were smugly arrogant, masters of the teaching of contempt toward those who were on the other side of the «modernist» vs. «fundamentalist» wars of the early part of this century.

I would include World Wars I & II and a hige list of other conflicts, but there would be difficulty separating out which side killed how many (and for what reasons; e.g. the debate over Hitler's «beliefs»).

On the Way of Separation, we treat faith and reason the same way that parents treat warring siblings on long road trips: You sit on this side, and you sit on that side, and please — for the love of God — try not to hit each other!

Unlike conventional war, it obviously does not mean that the other nation's tanks are back on their side of the border.

If we were to apply Niebuhr's real politics, with its ready acceptance of the inevitability of conflict, to the present nuclear situation, it could well mean «a perverse preference for the war of mutual annihilation, simply because the war of mutual annihilation means, at least, that the other side doesn't win either.»

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

The possession of nuclear weapons that are kept to deter their use by the other side has some justification, but the moment we accept the actual possibility of our using them to initiate the nuclear stage of a war, we are taking upon ourselves an unexamined moral responsibility.

Fanatical support of one side or the other during the War and clerical carpetbagging — and its obverse — after the War are examples of a type of ministerial activity that has plagued Protestantism in America periodically over the last one hundred — and more — years.

I does sadden me that there are people of all religions today, willing to violate many of the higher aspects of their faiths, to make war on each other, all sides killing so many innocents who have often done no harm to anyone and who usually only wish to peacefully survive from day to day.

These two warring schools of thought make it hard to look for the good in each side without being labeled as compromising by one and a Pharisee by the other.

He had been losing inch by inch in the devil's tug - of - war, pulled so gradually to the other side that he hadn't noticed the hell he was in until it was almost too late.

On the other side, how the hell does an intelligent man pay 50 million for Sterling, not only is he ordinary without the likes of Saurez, Surridge, and Gerrard he looks like he came from Star Wars (like so many others).

The second installment to one of the most predictable anticipated NBA Finals in history started like a game of tug - of - war, each side testing the other's strength first.

It was almost a two - front war for Puerto Rican players, with the well - funded institutions of the 50 states on one side, and the countries that were still ruled by buscones and money, like Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, on the other.

War, on the other hand, was very much in, and while the majority of the First World War was a muddy, depressing exercise in imperial hubris and mechanised slaughter, dogfights came out the other side with their reputation enhanced.

As self - interest spilled over into stupidity on the other side of the Force India garage, Esteban Ocon earned his first point in the Team - Mate Wars.

However, the banners in question (around 300 in number) only lightly peppered the Emirates stands, with fans on the other side of this bizarre Gooner civil - war belting out «One Arsene Wenger» in response.

In case of India vs Pak or the Korea's, both the sides are militarily very strong (all are in top 10 worldwide), so niether of them would probably start a full blown war with other, because they are sure of own damage.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

But when the issue transcends petty political rascality, and becomes a vicious war to roll back gains against corruption, corruption that has, for too long, under - developed the people, resulting in mass anguish and pains, then it is nothing but capital crime of political hue: one side must die for the other to prevail.

It has been speculated for some time that a Nuclear War between Russia and the United States would not likely start with one side surprising the other with a total launch (for one thing, it takes a few hours / days to properly fuel all of Russia's ICBMs... they not only by internal policy only have second strike capability... they also actually only have it.

Even if one assumed that the system of the other side is unsustainable and will eventually collapse (which wasn't undisputed, see the answer by Royal Canadian Bandit for details): Until then the other block was still capable of starting another world war and likely willing to do so if they were sure they could win.

«I'm much more critical of the fact that under the Blair era we knew, and this will all come out in the pubic inquiry, we knew that Blair flew just before the 1997 election to the other side of the world to meet Murdoch, we know that Tony Blair, three times in the ten days before the Iraq war was declared, was in touch with Rupert Murdoch»

Basically both sides agreed that in case of war they would not launch a massive strike on each other's cities.

Analysts and observers are of the opinion that the escalating statements would increase the likelihood of a war and can even stem up provocative attacks if any of the warring side should misunderstand the other.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

The commentary on war and metaphors of camouflage and «enemies on the other side of a wall» set it apart from dumb - down war pics.

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Players can choose to play as Jedi, Sith, or a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, defining their personal story and determining their path down the light or dark side of the Force.

Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - LorrainWar (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorrainwar brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

Hadi Hajaig follows his low - budget, noir thriller Puritan with Cleanskin, a tense tale of terrorism set in London, which pits two individuals from either side of the terror war divide against each other.

Review by Captain Hook The Cold War pitted the people of Germany against each other, with the western side being a Democratic nation backed by the Western powers and the eastern side under the Communist control.

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One of the things the film is about is the use of media as a weapon: this war of propaganda between RBSS on one side and ISIS — with its slick Hollywood - style productions — on the other.

From Saving Private Ryan's beaches of Normandy to Black Hawk Down's Mogadishu to the CIA black sites of Zero Dark Thirty to a bug - covered planet on the other side of the galaxy in Starship Troopers, war runs the gamut from the very personal to the thoroughly detached.

The original Infinity Gauntlet comic wasn't too long after the famous Kree - Skrull war, and after The Snap in the comic; the two races immediately went back to war because they each thought the other side was responsible for half of their population vanishing.

One took place in a opulent Greek setting that wouldn't have looked out of place in older God of War games, while the other is a much more arctic setting, set with a deep cavern behind and ice floes on the other side.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

It makes for an interesting companion to Christopher Nolan's summer hit, showing the desperation on the other side of the conflict and the belief that, should the forces fall, the war effort would be all but lost.

In 2005's Jarhead, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Anthony Swofford, who is from the Sacramento area, but the film is mostly set on the other side of the planet, where it explores the psychological costs of the Gulf War.

But in the world of Star Wars, some themes are eternal, like the temptation to fall into the dark side, as we see when Rey and Ren circle each other.

Finding himself caught in a Martian civil war between two human - like races trying to annihilate each other, he falls in love with the beautiful princess (Houston's own Lynn Collins) from one of the warring sides and helps them survive the menace of a devastating weapon given to their enemies from some strange mystical beings attempting to control the destiny of the planet.

Going into battle as Darth Vader with Kylo Ren at your side is pretty incredible, and even though they come from different eras of the Star Wars saga, they complement each other really well.

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Members of the other factions have started to form alliances and a war starts brewing between various sides.