Sentences with phrase «scale war on»

Fakegate was just one part of a full - scale war on those scientists — called deniers and climate skeptics — who had the courage to oppose the global warming hoax and it continues to this day.

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

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Trump administration doesn't have a «bloody nose» strategy focused on a military strike against North Korea's nuclear program without provoking a full - scale war.

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.

For example, on Friday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin acknowledged there's «a level of risk» that the tariff dispute between the U.S. and China will erupt into a full - scale trade war — something investors clearly don't want.

«But the U.S. brought the threat of war to the Korean peninsula with large - scale new sanctions on the DPRK ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony,» the state news agency said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters)- Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin said on Tuesday the U.S. sanctions imposed on some Russian companies resembled a large - scale trade war.

MOSCOW, April 10 - Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin said on Tuesday the U.S. sanctions imposed on some Russian companies resembled a large - scale trade war.

«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.

We may be on the brink of another East Asian currency war, a replay of 1998 but this time on a much bigger scale and with China playing a full part.

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.

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.

The Bitcoin Civil War is not worth rehashing here but all I'll say is the coin that is poised to capitalize on BTC's failure to scale is BCH.

«Early on, we made a conscious business decision to scale audience as aggressively as we could: Turf war, land grab,» Dave Finocchio says.

A large - scale attack on Iran would likely involve the US's NATO allies as well as Israel... and if Russia were to come to Iran's aid, we might have World War III on our hands.

What are the criteria by which a nation may go to war and create interruption on a massive scale?

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

So the firing of a conservative columnist from a left - of - center magazine won't register as high on the culture - war scale as did the firings of Brendan Eich (from Mozilla) or James Damore (from Google).

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

They are not even greatly stirred by the prospect that we shall export our wars with our machines to other planets and re-enact on a larger scale the kind of history with which we have become too familiar.

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.

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.

Though of far smaller scale and import, the war on «values» is reminiscent of the heated dispute between the great apologists during the first centuries over Greek «inculturation.»

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.

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

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.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

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...

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.

My analysis focuses on demonstrating the likely maintenance of the status quo without large - scale war given present circumstances, as well as the high opportunity cost of this outcome.

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.

Nick Harvey, Liberal Democrat shadow defence secretary, said: «It is evident that mainstream military opinion is questioning the wisdom, necessity and affordability of replacing Trident with another nuclear system on a Cold War scale.

Following the revelation, government waged a massive war against such activities and placed a six - month ban on small scale mining.

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.

«This has become a humanitarian crisis on a scale we have not seen on our continent since the Second World War.

Nothing underlined the disruption of Government more than the dispersal on Tuesday of the congressional leadership as it seemed full - scale war was being waged against the US.

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.

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.

The Conjuring 2 pulled in $ 320 million against a $ 40 million budget, meaning it's more profitable than Civil War, just on a smaller scale.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.