Sentences with phrase «scale of world war»

This is why I have taken the Climate Mobilization Pledge in support of a program on the scale of the World War II mobilization of human, industrial, and financial resources to restore a safe climate.

It's emotionally binding, it's challenging until the final hurdle, and the episodic format does more justice to the scale of World War I than an elongated campaign ever could.

«We knew they would become historians, that they would tackle it with authenticity, give it tremendous care and we also knew they would capture the unspeakable scale of World War II.»

It's emotionally binding, it's challenging until the final hurdle, and the episodic format does more justice to the scale of World War I than an elongated campaign ever could.

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Financially wrecked following the First World War, Weimar Germany printed huge volumes of marks to cover its expenses, resulting in hyperinflation on a massive scale.

The main concern is that without the support of the two largest economies, the rules - based system of international trade can quickly lose its authority, leaving the world economy on a slippery slope towards a full - scale trade war.

Published after World War II, it states charges as a percentage of transaction costs in terms appropriate to 1947, but which, 55 inflationary years later, mean that all housing work had moved to the top of the scale.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

A tertiary reason had to do with scaling down the armed forces after World War II and keeping veterans out of the labor force until it could expand sufficiently to absorb them.

After World War II the states took over the role of expanding the availability of higher education on a large scale.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

Industrial - scale extraction of the aquifer did not begin until after World War II.

The industrial - scale slaughter of the first world war is often blamed on a clash of 19th - century tactics and 20th - century weapons, including tanks, aircraft, modern artillery and machine guns.

It had been used before for identifying bodies in mass graves, for example after the 1990s genocide in Bosnia and for first world war soldiers, but nothing on the scale or complexity of ground zero.

This method, called the Haber process or the Haber - Bosch process, was first used on an industrial scale by the Germans during World War I, [7] following the Allied blockade that cut off the supply of nitrates from Chile.

Large scale cultivation of the soybean in the United States began only after the Second World War, and quickly rose to 140 billion pounds per year.

IL - 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around the large - scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II.

In a world ravaged by centuries of war between humans and vampires some warrior priests attempt to tip the scales in favor of humanity.

Over the course of 2016, they travel the world attempting to solidify and «lock - in» policies that they believe will define their legacy, promote diplomacy over large - scale military action, and fundamentally alter how the US government confronts questions of war and peace, as they prepare to hand over the machinery of American power to a new administration.

This style of fast paced zombies attacking in great numbers is reminiscent of World War Z, but the scale is kept just about small enough and less CGI - heavy to seem more realistically threatening.

The IMAX format, however, gives moviegoers a chance to see the movie as Nolan intended — epic scale to tell the epic story, set at the outset of World War II, when British civilians in small vessels crossed the English Channel to rescue more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers surrounded and stranded on the French beach of Dunkirk.

Journey's End This is a small - scale, well - acted film based on a 1928 stage play, focusing on the horror of life in the trenches in World War I.

With World War Z, however, we get a budget of $ 190 million dedicated to bringing us the largest scale zombie movie to ever grace the big screen.

Car production had always been on a small scale and until the advent of World War II halted work only about 700 had been made.

More large - scale emigration of Romanis to the Americas took place in the early 20th century, the majority of them fleeing economic depression and the persecution of the collapsing Austro - Hungarian empire after World War I. Today it is estimated that there are close to 100,000 so called Rom Amerko living in New York.

Like Haruki Murakami in Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private - eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic - scale alternate - history saga of Jewish life since World War II.

Guild Wars 2 is a visually stunning online game that offers players the epic grandeur of a massive role playing environment combined with action combat, large - scale dynamic events that players tackle together, plus both team - based and World vs. World competitive battles.

Based on a player's experience rank and rank of the player's friends, Call of Duty: World at War scales dynamically to provide a deeper level of challenge.

Its been a long time since we last saw a Call of Duty set in World War II, especially one on the scale of this one.

In these large - scale and visually surprising compositions, the artist fuses a wealth of anachronistic elements into a unified whole, as in the World War I biplane and Spanish galleon that co-exist in Medieval Divided Self, or he evokes pivotal battles from vastly different epochs of British and American history, such as Agincourt and the Battle of the Alamo.

As it turned out in the decades before and after World War II, Picasso, Matisse, Miró and the New York School continued to make monumental mural scale paintings on the level of the greatest art of the past.

The oxyacetylene torch — invented during the Second World War — allowed him to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large - scale finished works.

Select past exhibitions include Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie (2017), a city - wide exhibition featuring works by more than 50 artists in the Roberts Gallery, in street interventions throughout Philadelphia, and on the web; Nari Ward: Sun Splashed (2016), a mid-career survey of the artist's found - object assemblage art; Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change (2016), which examined the artist's stylistic development during the First World War; and Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things (2015), for which the Barnes commissioned three large - scale artist installations in response to the unconventional way Dr. Barnes displayed his collection.

The oxyacetylene torch — invented during the Second World War — allowed Lipton to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large - scale finished works.

Paul devised a major commission for the London 2012 Festival and is at present working on large - scale projects to mark the centenary of the First World War and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

Organized by the Museum with guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition features paintings and drawings from the early 1960s to the present, including large - scale «historical epics,» satires of art history, and several of his most recent paintings addressing World War II and the war in IrWar II and the war in Irwar in Iraq.

A multimedia artist, previous works include Untitled (Ghardaïa)(2009), a scale model made from couscous, of the North African town that was an inspiration to architect Le Corbusier and a major installation at the art survey dOCUMENTA (13), in 2012, where he juxtaposed images of wounded soldiers from World War I with re-appropriated African masks, suggesting a connection between physical healing and cultural reconstruction, both of which are processes of repair.

He has completed several series of works - for instance, on the Second World War, the Passion of Christ, and the Prodigal Son - as well as numerous shorter series and individual paintings, often on a monumental scale.

The crown jewel of the gift is Pollock's «Lucifer» (1947), a stellar example of the artist's mature, drip - painting style, which reset the level of ambition and the physical scale of American painting after World War II.

In the early postwar period, artists in Europe, the US and Japan faced a philosophical crisis: in the wake of destruction on a scale previously unimaginable, confronting the political and social fallout of World War II, many of them felt that artistic practice, as it had existed prior to the war, had lost its relevance to the human conditiWar II, many of them felt that artistic practice, as it had existed prior to the war, had lost its relevance to the human conditiwar, had lost its relevance to the human condition.

Greyscale screen - prints of homes, upon further inspection, reveal themselves to be pictures of full - scale models of Japanese and German civilian domiciles built during World War II to test the effectiveness of explosives.

Also, for the past few decades civil war (1991 - 2002) and problems with Islamic militants — which began before the world in general had any idea of the scale of the menace — have made it unsafe for travellers to visit.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

«The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face.»

We must loudly speak the truth of the critical climate emergency we are facing and the World War II - scale mobilization needed to address it.»

Ezra Silk, Deputy Director and Head of Organising at the American organisation The Climate Mobilization, explained in an interviewed in The Green Report on RT America what they mean when they talk about a World War Two - scale mobilisation:

The platform acknowledges the scale of the threat to be so large that it will require a leadership response from our country on the scale of our national mobilization to confront the threat of fascism during World War II.

«Democratic Platform Committee members voted in favor of an historic amendment categorizing climate change as a global emergency requiring a World War II - scale mobilization.

In an era of catastrophic gradualism and lethal cowardice, Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova has taken a tremendously courageous stand for climate truth and justice in his call for a World War II - scale mobilization that eliminates net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and restores a safe climate.

Delaying the peak year even further to 2020 could necessitate global emissions reduction rates of up to 9 % per year — i.e. reductions on an almost inconceivable scale, entailing technological feats and social sacrifices on a scale comparable to those of the Allied mobilization during the Second World War.26