Sentences with phrase «recent war and peace»

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The study is a critique of pacifism and pacifist organizations in recent agitations about war and peace.

Now, faced by a huge debt from the recent French and Indian War, the British determined simultaneously to make a peaceful settlement with the Indians, to keep a large army intact in order to preserve peace, to pay off past debts, and to handle future expenses by a series of colonial taxes.

As we have seen, Thomas Aquinas» jus ad bellum consists of the requirements of sovereign authority, just cause, and right intention, including the purpose of peace, often listed as a separate requirement in recent just war thought.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq Wwar» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar and the recent Iraq WarWar.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

Re-reading War and Peace in recent weeks, I have been reminded of one of the most monumental pieces of miscasting in the history of the motion picture industry.

They still hold the Golan and all of Jerusalem, they took the westbank, gaza and the sinai peninsula but have since returned those (which has never been done in recent memory, a country giving back conquered land for peace they could have attained through war).

It also explains the causes of the recent deterioration in US - Pakistan relations and how they can be rectified; pinpoints factors responsible for the failure of the Obama Administration's approach towards Pakistan and the Afghan war; and suggests ways to stabilise Pakistan and achieve a lasting peace in Afghanistan, amid the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the war - torn country by 2014.

Flash forward to the recent years and I've played a handful of shooters including both Modern Warfare titles, Halo 1 & 2, Gears of War, Portal, and Bioshock, dwelling last week exclusively on Modern Warfare 2 in order to soak up as much of it as possible before my Xbox Live Gold Account expired (may it rest in peace).

The contributions also consider such specific works as Kelly's Interim (1984 — 1989), the subject of a special issue of October; Gloria Patri (1992), an installation conceived in response to the first Gulf War; The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), an extensive project including a 200 - foot narrative executed in the medium of compressed lint and the performance of a musical score by Michael Nyman; and two recent works, Love Songs (2005 - 2007), which explores the role of memory in feminist politics, and Mimus (2012), a triptych that parodies the House Un-American Activities Committee's 1962 investigation of the pacifist group, Women Strike for Peace.

Important recent solo exhibitions include: «Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation», at OCA, Oslo and Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; «Intervention # 21: Matias Faldbakken» at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, «Oslo, Texas», The Power Station, Dallas, «That Death of Which One Does Not Die», Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, «War After Peace (After War)», Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, «Shocked into Abstraction», IKON Gallery, Birmingham, and the National Museum of Oslo, and «Extreme Siesta», Kunsthalle St. Gallen.

In addition, his many public sculptures include the Los Angeles, a monument Tower of Peace, 1966, which protested the Vietnam War, and his more recent Joie de Vivre, 1998 for Zuccotti Park, in lower Manhattan.