Sentences with phrase «scale war in»

But he was mired in the Iraq war, and had few options beyond air strikes or another full - scale war in the Middle East, which Israel was pushing for.

Not exact matches

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

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.

A shift in relations with North Korea could present the U.S. with the ability to reshape its strategic posture in Asia, a lower - scale echo of Nixon's opening with China during the Cold War.

«This operation would be tantamount to pursuing full - scale war on the Korean Peninsula, and risk conflict elsewhere in the region,» the report concludes.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

That said, trade wars do happen even with these rules in place, usually on a smaller scale.

«I personally wasted so much time in the bitcoin scaling civil war that I could have used designing [and] building dapps (decentralized applications) and opening up OpenBazaar to multiple currencies,» Sanchez wrote.

It was also a big coup for Amazon since its one weakness against Apple and Google in the voice assistant wars is the lack of distribution on smartphones at scale.

While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil 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.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

In 1917, Europe was at war on a scale unknown in previous historIn 1917, Europe was at war on a scale unknown in previous historin previous history.

Nations at war, natural disasters in grand scale etc..

Many people suggest that this new context renders the just war tradition obsolete: its restraints are unsuited for the demands of combat characterized by evasion and small - scale fighting in civilian terrain.

But the stage is set for the final end to war, for the definitive outlawing of violence in the settling of disputes between nations — and the opportunity for American pastors to tip the scales of history is tremendous.

Religion has cuased Wars on a massive scale (crusades) and still continues today in the middle east.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

Can he assist us in our ongoing attempt to understand the large - scale political violence of our age — the wars, persecutions, and holocausts which have made the 20th century the bloodiest in history?

There was indeed eirene in the Greek sense: the absence of large - scale war (except far away on the empire's borders).

Douthat believes that there is a full scale war being waged by secularists against the free expression of Judaism and Christianity (in particular) outside of house of worship walls, and gets into some reasons for the attack on the first liberty area mentioned in the First Amendment.

Obviously we don't need full scale wars to get the target... but if paying for a tank you can't afford is what you want then lets keep buying tanks... Bush was able to double our debt in his 8 years primarily due to crazy military spending, and Obama isn't doing very well either.

Even if you are not for the large - scale decriminalization of some drugs, much of the data suggests that there are major flaws in the War on Drugs» strategy of sentencing of enforcement.

What started as a power struggle between the South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, and the former vice president, Rik Machar, turned into full - scale civil war, in December 2013.

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.

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.

But in America, in spite of a civil war, major social and religious movements, and minor disturbances of occasionally violent intensity, the fundamental legitimacy of the established order had never before been questioned on such a scale.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

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.

But we shall also note that from these peoples came the largest - scale exploitation of other segments of mankind and the most widely destructive wars in history.

If you caught the first episode of ABC's War on Waste program earlier this year, two things may have jumped out at you: firstly, the scale of food loss and food waste in Australia; and secondly, the incredible efforts that Foodbank and the food industry, including Australian Organic members and clients, are making right across...

Disney, now owners of Star Wars producer Lucasfilm, has recently adopted a «legacy pay scale» policy; in layman's terms, veteran actors were paid ludicrously higher wages than their less experienced counterparts, regardless of screen time.

The racers are preparing, on a small scale, to pilot machines used in wars that are happening far beyond their bubble.

He cited the «sheer scale of the sacrifice», the impact of the war on the development of Britain and the fact that «this matters, not just in our heads, but in our hearts» as reasons for marking the centenary.

No, if he does so, he would be a war criminal on international scale who could be tried in another country or by a special international tribunal.

In two years, Iain Duncan Smith has driven forward welfare reform on a scale and with a determination not seen since World War Two.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

When the Russian soldiers first deployed in the Crimea, Turchynov feared that any provocation would lead to a full scale war, a war he'd have very little chance of winning.

Yes, to be a credible offensive weapon in a large scale war, more than a handful of warheads may be needed.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

Having said this, AYD is of the view that the recent public outcry that has greeted the activities of small - scale mining in the country, and the subsequent knee - jerk and fire - fighting war on small scale mining has only reinforced the age - old problem of successive governments.

It is being claimed by some in Westminster that a deal has been done between Mr Blair and Mr Ashdown in a bid to shore up the Liberal Democrat leader's position while averting a full - scale civil war on the Labour benches.

First, in Iraq, the decision to intervene came «out of nowhere», there was no large - scale ongoing civil war and the regime seemed as stable as it could have been at the time.

They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.

«Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full - scale use of high - yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.»

A team of scientists using a state - of - the - art UCLA instrument reports the discovery of a planetary - scale «tug - of - war» of life, deep Earth and the upper atmosphere that is expressed in atmospheric nitrogen.

Scientists have discovered a planetary - scale tug - of - war between life, deep Earth and the upper atmosphere that is expressed in atmospheric nitrogen.

Ultimately, Falk and Hildebolt found that people living in small - scale societies are not inherently more violent that those living in «civilized» states, and that war deaths scale similarly with population sizes across all levels of human society.