Sentences with phrase «scale war with»

Battlefield 1 takes place in WW1, a rare setting for a modern shooter, but DICE has recaptured the sobering horror of the world's first industrial - scale war with grace and respect.

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And a full - scale tariff war with China would likely expose the largest U.S. export sectors to steep duties, including aircraft, semiconductors, corn and soybeans, trade lawyers said.

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.

«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.

NZ was the plan for a full scale cyber war with no attribution.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Look at asylum seekers» countries of origin and they follow a predictable pattern: where there is war, brutal repression and large scale human rights abuses with impunity, people will inevitably flee.

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.

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.

Falk and Hildebolt found that war deaths for both small - scale and more modern state societies escalate upward with increasing population sizes.

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.

Annual war deaths in small - scale versus state societies scale with population size rather than violence.

Chronic inflammation is when your immune system is exposed to so many threats or is so starved of vital nutrition that it can not control itself, and assaults the slightest threat (like p.acnes) with a full scale war.

Having his first MCU appearance in Civil War, with the scale of his role yet to be determined.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

However, you would have to assume, with its grand scale and its large number of heroes, that this fact would go double for Infinity War.

So, Guillermo del Toro's Cold War - era fantasy B - movie romance thriller The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a woman who falls in love with a scaled creature kept in a water tank in the research facility she works at, has been named Best Picture at this year's Oscars.

With a little help from Drax, Ryder forms a resistance, which builds into a full - scale war.

His tit - for - tat battles with Northside gangster Moran (Ralph Meeker) turn into a full - scale war when Chicago's Mafia Don (and Capone's boss) is knocked off in a power play.

Avengers: Infinity War is putting up Star Wars level box office along with the amount of characters and scale.

Speaking of which - with Civil War, directors Anthony and Joe Russo (who also helmed The Winter Soldier) deliver some of the most impressive superhero - based fight scenes and set pieces featured in any Marvel Studios film yet, in terms of both the sheer scale and creativity of the Avenger vs. Avenger battles.

In the final film, With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss (Lawrence) confronts President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in the final showdown.

King T'Challa will have to wrestle with the notion that once he opened the gates of Wakanda to outsiders, a full - scale war broke out.

An immersive and intense experience that unfolds across three temporalities with the storytelling dexterity of a magic trick, «Dunkirk» finds director Christopher Nolan brilliantly pulling off a large - scale war epic with a degree of difficulty most filmmakers wouldn't dare approach.

With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow [Donald Sutherland] in the final showdown.

The film brings Trevorrow back to smaller - scale drama before he returns to blockbuster filmmaking with Star Wars: Episode IX.

The spectacular 1 / 6th scale Thanos collectible figure is meticulously crafted with impressive likeness based on the main appearance of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War.

Infinity War started with a bang, or perhaps a snap, decimating the opening weekend records domestically and going on to do the same thing on the worldwide scale, knocking The Fate of the Furious off of the throne.

But if the panel lacked for concrete fan information, it was filled to the brim with grade - A fan service, with Abrams going out of his way to emphasize the movie's focus on practical effects over CGI work, up to and including bringing out that camel creature — whose name, «Baba Joe,» scores a disappointingly low «3» on the Star Wars Stupid Naming Scale — from the charity video he released last year.

They are Blockbusters with a capital b, characterized by a high - gloss sheen and dizzying amount of large - scale action set pieces and Infinity War fails to be an exception to that rule.

For high - stakes space opera on an epic scale, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a risky, expansive, entertaining and visionary spectacle, made with technical expertism and frequently, bona fide beauty.

Unfortunately, apart from a few painterly shots here or there, the film's visuals appear on par with an HBO miniseries, boxing the film's scale into a 16:9 frame that makes the Civil War feel inappropriately small.

The last few Star Wars films have had a darker tone and while I expect that trend to continue with the untitled Episode IX, due to be released in late 2019, Solo: A Star Wars Story tips the scales back in the other direction and is a fun, likeable adventure.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

With the success of Chadwick Boseman's introduction in Captain America: Civil War, fans like myself couldn't wait for the solo film to be released, but with this teaser trailer it looks like Coogler is going to bring that magic yet again, but on the largest scale he can possibly do itWith the success of Chadwick Boseman's introduction in Captain America: Civil War, fans like myself couldn't wait for the solo film to be released, but with this teaser trailer it looks like Coogler is going to bring that magic yet again, but on the largest scale he can possibly do itwith this teaser trailer it looks like Coogler is going to bring that magic yet again, but on the largest scale he can possibly do it on.

And South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut remains their defining statement, a work combining epic scale (a land war with Canada, a trip to the depths of Hades, a daylight raid on the Baldwin compound) with intimate character comedy (Satan's grief over his lover Saddam Hussein's infidelity is genuinely touching), wrapped in a biting commentary on censorship and topped off with belting show tunes worthy of West Side Story.

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With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in the final showdown.

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.

Imagine the Mad Titan roaring across the galaxy with the 12 - inch scale Thanos figure from the Titan Hero Series, inspired by the Avengers: Infinity War movie.