Sentences with phrase «period of civil war»

The country, which experienced a long period of civil war that only recently ended, is home to an increasing number of top - notch lodgings that offer visitors an attractive alternative to large hotel chains.

A subsequent period of civil war between Chinese Communists and Nationalists lasting more twenty years culminated in victory for the Communists and in 1949, The People's Republic of China - the country's official title today - was established.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

In the case of Democratic Republic of Congo, the decline in educational attainments was the result of a decades - long progressive collapse of governance — along with a drop in copper prices — that drove the DRC's GDP per capita down from approximately $ 300 per capita (in constant USD 2000) in the 1970s, to approximately $ 100 at the beginning of the periods of civil war that started in the late 1990s (Human - Security - Report, 2012:92).

Not exact matches

While Army private pay in the Spanish - American War was still $ 13 like it had been in the Civil War, a period of deflation had strengthened the purchasing power of that monthly salary.

-- The other aspect of the conquest period — the tendency to disunion under petty tyrants — could not last, or the Hebrew people would soon have perished in civil war or become prey to their powerful neighbors.

At the beginning of the long period of Anglo - American dominance, Britain resolved the religious controversies that drove it into civil war by adopting what Mead calls «anglican ethics.»

During this period of simmering civil war there were outside wars as well.

The omission is all the more remarkable since the Civil War broke out during a period of grassroots religious revivals» one beginning in 1857, the other in 1863 «64» that influenced many of the men who served in the wWar broke out during a period of grassroots religious revivals» one beginning in 1857, the other in 1863 «64» that influenced many of the men who served in the warwar.

A few pages later he notes that the Civil War period brought little change in the theological views of most Americans, but then adds:

It was followed by a period of useless civil wars, after which Sultan Mehmed I restored the power of the dynasty.

During the 1870s and 1880s the communitarian socialism of the period before the Civil War was almost forgotten and most Americans writing on the subject were pointing with alarm to the possibility of class warfare and destructive revolution that European socialism would bring to America.

Ninety per cent of the presidents of colleges before the Civil War were ordained ministers.42 In the post-War period these men were rapidly replaced, especially in the larger and more influential institutions, by members of other professions.

Evangelical Protestant institutions partook to a much lesser degree in either the academic enhancement or the secularization of their mainstream cousins during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

As for his argument, Carter writes learnedly about the most notable crises of American republicanism, especially the Constitutional period, the Civil War, and the New Deal.

It's a quiet film with no score and set during the height of the Civil War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

Reconstruction refers to the effort to bring the South into the Union after the Civil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - AmeriCivil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - Americivil rights for Southern African - Americans.

The North and South charge to battle at the sound of the bugle, with more than 300 Civil War re-enactors providing a realistic look at this historic period.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.. While the North and South will clash daily in impressive battles, complete with period costumes and weaponry, the real stars of the spectacle will be the more than 300 re-enactors.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

There was a 20 - 25 year period of «greater» conservatism before the Civil War that may well have led to the Civil War.

The Spanish CNT trade union, for example, for a brief period in the Civil War, put many of these republican self - government principles into practice through their collectivisation of industry in Barcelona and Catalonia.

The governor alluded that «only two weeks ago we gave a posthumous award to Alhaji Umaru Altine, a Katsina born Muslim who was elected mayor of Enugu before the Civil War, in the period that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was leader of the NCNC.

«Nigeria is passing through the most difficult period of our history, even worse than the civil war going by the kind of anxiety enveloping the country presently as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency, but that should not be used as a licence by any governor or anybody to go out of our constitutional provisions in coming up with a policy to tackle the problem.

Only two weeks ago we gave a posthumous award to Alhaji Umaru Altine, a Katsina born Muslim who was elected mayor of Enugu before the Civil War, in the period that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was leader of the NCNC.

He believes that we are seeing the onset of global instability again, after the brief and unusually stable postwar period in which warfare now generally means civil wars.

Physical and psychological aggression in dating relationships of Spanish adolescents: Motives and consequences ☆ Spanish Civil War; Part of the Interwar period (clockwise from top left)

Two potentially higher - profile films, the disco period film 54 (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War epic Ride With the Devil (1999), failed to make a positive impression on critics and audiences.Ruffalo's luck began to change, however, when he was cast in an off - Broadway production of This Is Our Youth.

Instead of trying to squeeze in every facet of the man's storied life, Lincoln chooses to focus on the period as the Civil War drew to a bloody, heart - rending close and the president, who had chosen to form a cabinet made up largely of people who opposed him, was sticking to his campaign to abolish slavery.

For those captivated by the civil war period, this reenactment, enhanced by a huge number of volunteer cast members, brings to life a dark period in American history when the scourge of slavery led to war between countrymen.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

A western tv series, The Young Riders sees a group of journeymen who joined the Pony Express in the period leading up to the American Civil War.

Lawrence Roeck's film has been explicitly conceived as an opportunity for the younger Eastwood to emulate the persona that cemented his elder's legend, fusing elements of The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, and the Dollars trilogy into a revenge narrative spanning portions of the American West during the period of unrest following the Civil War.

It seems odd, however, that The Ted would seek to get the bayonets a-rattlin» again with almost four hours of awkward period speechifying punctuated occasionally by random recreations of random early Civil War battles (Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville), each of which lead to the events of Maxwell's 1993 adaptation of The Killer Angels, Gettysburg.

The strength of Charles Frazier's National Book Award - winning source material lies in its socio - political details of America's Civil War period, but Minghella has focused his picture unerringly on the overrated novel's weaknesses instead: its dialogue, its clumsy Homeric riff (for better country - fried Odyssey, stick to O Brother Where Art Thou?)

The new footage is uneven — the dubbing is often jarring and the film quality varies — and consists mostly of short scenes that reinforce the story's Civil War backdrop, which fades from view for extended periods in the original release.

He added that the growth of the federal government also stems from the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, as does the foundation of today's economic system.

Monastero also has a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on teenagers in the Civil War and includes period music and Library of Congress photos of teenage soldiers.

Classrooms for the sophomores, juniors, and seniors are nestled at the back of the village between the Suwanee Lagoon, where a paddlewheel boat churns the water, and Walnut Grove, where reenactors stage Civil War battles and period baseball games.

This set of 39 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the time period before the Civil War.

For example, they might teach about the Civil War using songs from that period or teach the solar system by having students physically act out the rotation of planets around the sun.

Students select a historical period of interest — the American Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Great Depression are just a few.

This lesson focuses on the historical context of lynching beginning in the years after the Civil War through the time period of the Emmett Till case.

As this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I have a feeling there will be keen interest in the life of military generals from that period — not that history buffs aren't always interested in the CW.

Perhaps having this clear explication of what happened will help us understand what led to the deaths of 58,000 Americans and more than 3 million Vietnamese, North and South, and to the most divisive period in our history since the Civil War, with scars still visible today.

- Publishers Weekly «Less dramatic than the author's previous work, but full of vigorous prose and dynamic stories about the period immediately following the end of the Civil War.»

US history term papers may concern various periods of time: the Declaration of Independence, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, the World War I, the World War II and others.

Visit some of our many seacoast defense sites: Fort Point National Historic Site; a brick Civil War era fort at the edge of the Golden Gate Fort Baker and Fort Barry; Endicott - period (1905 - 1908) historic army posts Marin Headlands Nike Missile site; a Cold - War era nike site