Sentences with phrase «right after the second world war»

The Indonesian proclamation of independence on August 17, 1945, right after the Second World War, was followed by the 5 - year war of liberation against the Dutch Colonial Regime which colonized Indonesia for more than three and a half centuries.

The unleashing of the United States as a major world force began right after the Second World War.

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

Her description of the authoritative style of parenting is typically viewed as striking a golden middle course between the prevailing pre Second World War behavioral authoritarian parenting style and the emergence of the «so called» Freudian permissive parenting style right after the Second World War.

Not exact matches

Right down until after the Second World War, even city - dwelling cats had to make a living on mice.

This would have redefined the UK's relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights, signed after the Second World War, which Tories say is being taken far too literally.

Although about a third of British industry was taken into public ownership after the Second World War, and remained so until the 1980s, the right of the party were questioning the validity of expanding on this objective by the late 1950s.

After the second world war, it suffered its share of «marsh cowboys» and as a result the sporting rights held by the Crown Estates were taken over by the Nature Conservancy Council, now the CCW, when the area was designated as a National Nature Reserve in 1968.

While after the Second World War the United States considered communist nations, particularly the Soviet Union, to be the ideological enemy to defeat, our country is now more concerned impact of far - right organizations and especially Islamic radicals.

Forza Horizon 3 was the second game shown on stage at the Xbox Briefing, right after a little game called Gears of War 4... Our Creative Director, Ralph Fulton, took to the stage and announced Forza Horizon 3 to the world following months of speculation from fans and press.

His life and work were greatly affected by the political and social upheavals in France and Germany during the Second World War; after fleeing his native Germany (he was considered a «degenerate» artist by the Gestapo) he fought with the French Foreign Legion and lost his right leg on the Alsatian front.

The exhibition focuses on some of the dramatic changes in British art in the wake of French Impressionism right through to the period just after the Second World War, and tells the stories behind some exceptional works of art.

To understand why Riley is such a huge original you need to compare these drawings — for instance Untitled (Right Angle Curve)(1966) which plots a typically eye - flummoxing whoosh of black lines — with the great American abstract painters who had transformed art after the second world war.

The Council of Europe is a body set up after the Second World War to promote human rights and democracy across Europe.