Sentences with phrase «over the war in»

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.

Bush has warned that August will be a bloody month for U.S. forces in Iraq as militants try to influence the debate over the war in Washington, where Democrats in Congress want troops pulled out within months.

In Maine, if Collins continues her indecision over the war in Iraq, her approvals will decline and Allen will win.

Now, as Blair and his cronies are getting ready to stab Bush in the back and defecate on the Iraqis Congress is getting ready to pull the financing necessary to continue funding the US presence in Iraq, Tony Blair and most of the government continue to give their backing over the War in Iraq - Peter Hain is a notable exception.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

In episode 408, Jenny's revenge on her critic backfires in front of her agents; Alice and Tasha disagree over the war in Iraq but find common ground romantically; Tina meets Bette's new girlfriend Jodi; Kit unloads publicly on the cheating Angus.

He's a lame duck president with diluted power; Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate; and he's burned up much of his political capital with lawmakers wrangling over the war in Iraq.

Like all American artists of his generation, Nauman spent his formative years surrounded by the political clashes over the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement (particularly the race riots in American cities) and what was back then called the Women's Movement.

Not exact matches

«It's almost how you must feel like before you go over the top in the war... There's that gnawing fear and worry,» he said.

While not in the rules for everyone else yet, they were still widely taken up across the Armed Forces and during the Crimean War there were a wide variety of permissible (and over the top) styles.

A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

Famously brash and competitive, he's best known for castigating his competitors (he routinely dismisses AT&T and Verizon as «dumb and dumber»), uttering public profanities, and engaging in the occasional Twitter war — including with then - candidate Donald Trump, in 2015, in a spat over tweets in which Trump criticized mixed - martial - arts star Ronda Rousey.

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

WUHAN, China, April 28 - The leaders of China and India agreed to open a new chapter in their relationship on Saturday after an informal summit, just months after a dispute over a stretch of their high - altitude Himalayan border rekindled fears of war.

As they took cover from the machine guns, they received word that the war would be over in less than an hour.

Trump made the remark as the two sides prepared to hold talks in Beijing on resolving conflicts over trade and economic policies that have propelled the two countries toward a full - blown trade war.

The message from every page in this magazine is simple: Go do something great, go be fearless in the face of adversity, because in so doing, we win the war over fear.

Back in May 2003, Bush prematurely declared the Iraq war as being over, in the wake of U.S. forces successfully toppling the government of Saddam Hussein.

Something that Mona said that I think should be reiterated over and over, is that when you're launching a brand, keep in mind there will always be competition, but that doesn't mean war.

It's worth noting that companies often base their final decision on a possible public offering on the overall performance of public markets, which have been volatile in recent weeks due to fears over trade wars.

Then, in the afternoon, stocks resumed earlier declines after the minutes from the Federal Reserve's March meeting showed considerable concern over the mounting specter of a trade war.

«When the war is over, the soldiers, they become like slaves,» he says in his even, unemotional tone.

«When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times, we haven't seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world,» Trump said.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

With President Donald Trump due to arrive in Germany later on Thursday, a lawmaker in the country has voiced concerns over a potential trade war between the U.S. and Europe as a result of Trump's protectionist policies.

Often regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders in modern history, Churchill would overcome immense obstacles to eventually lead the British people to victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany in World War II.

Irish research firm Eagle Alpha, for example, digested 7,416 comments on a Reddit gaming thread in October to predict that Electronic Arts (EA) would sell more of its new Star Wars videogame than it had projected; Electronic Arts soon raised its sales forecast, citing «excitement» over the game.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

Major U.S. corporations are going to war in Washington over a Republican «border adjustment» tax proposal meant to boost exports over imports.

A border war with China was fought over the territory in 1962 and skirmishes continue today.

BRUSSELS / PARIS, March 16 - Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria's war, according to a confidential document, in a bid to persuade Washington to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

The Department of Defense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, as well.

Disney took over the majority of the «Star Wars» universe after it purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, but that deal lacked the first «Star Wars» film from 1977, which Fox produced and owned.

It's absolutely amazing the progress they've made over there in 60 - plus years since the war.

Currently two of our smartest minds — Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — are in a war of words over whether artificial intelligence is more likely to improve our lives or destroy them.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

The Republican civil war that erupted over the Tea Party's disregard of big business's agenda threatens to turn (big) business brother against (small) business brother in the 2014 Republican primaries.

A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug - of - war, this time over six former Soviet Republics.

Internet provider members such as Comcast and AT&T are currently locked in a war of words with technology company members such as Netflix and Amazon over the idea of paid prioritization, where ISPs can charge online content companies more for better - quality connections.

More from the South China Morning Post: Kim Jong - un wife's fashion sense a hit with China's public China's secrecy over Kim Jong - un's visit was part of a long - standing tradition US and China in talks to shield soybeans and other farm products from trade war tariffs

The U.S. hoped that showcasing popular American music would win them over as ideological allies in the Cold War.

To be fair, there have been a several times that markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led by Keating.

«I mean, it's a really big deal, and in terms of the war I think the thing that's important is, you know, in the comic books it's kind of over relatively quickly.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

With 75,000 restaurants in over 1,200 U.S. cities and London, the next challenge is to hold off megacompetitors like Amazon and Uber in the food - delivery turf wars.

The Federal Reserve did not help in the process as their response to increasing oil prices and the war in the Middle East was to RAISE the short term Fed Funds rate from 5.50 to over 10 percent.

Last Wednesday, gold reached its highest level since August 2016 as jitters grew over Syria and Russia — with a potential trade war with China still in the picture.

Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria's war, in a bid to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

Thiel has admitted he funded the lawsuit over the tape as part of what The New York Times referred to as a «secret war» on Gawker, which in 2007 ran a post stating Thiel was gay.