Sentences with phrase «side of every world war»

Was it the peek at a lesser - known side of World War II that drew you to All the Light We Can not See?

We can look at all of the educational institutions on the other side of every world war and see that (and actually, typically on both sides of every war).

Not exact matches

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

Eisfeld has had it particularly rough since World War II ended, when the Soviets drew the Iron Curtain along its southern boundary, leaving the town trapped on the wrong side of history and the factory in the hands of East Germany.

After World War II, nearly 70 % of Warsaw as a whole (on both sides of Vistula River) was destroyed.

Research shows that football was a popular form of recreation for troops on both sides during World War 1, as explained by the Imperial War Museum.

I wonder what would happen over there if the world's people were to finally see the truth and realize that religion is being used to delude them into thinking world wars are the way of life — something that has to happen in order for... their glorious ascension into heaven or hell --(depending on who's side — re: religion — god — whatever — you are on).

I would include World Wars I & II and a hige list of other conflicts, but there would be difficulty separating out which side killed how many (and for what reasons; e.g. the debate over Hitler's «beliefs»).

(32) The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World War.

The great little country of England produced Darwinism in the nineteenth century, and the great Churchill's No to Hitler's 1000 year kingdom in the present century, but notable intellectual creativity was, by the two world wars and the Holocaust, substantially, driven to the American side of the Atlantic.11 Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or the University of Chicago, not Oxford or Cambridge, became the centers.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

The glory days of feature film animation were amidst World Wars, when propaganda on both sides was simple: Allies versus fascists, right takes on wrong, world defenders against world destroWorld Wars, when propaganda on both sides was simple: Allies versus fascists, right takes on wrong, world defenders against world destroworld defenders against world destroworld destroyers.

It figured heavily in my approval as a candidate for the ministry: the chairman of the committee, a veteran of World War I, was disturbed because I refused to embrace completely the warmaking side of the ambiguity.

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

In the world of politics, President George W. Bush asserted the unity side of the argument more than once in the years after the 9/11 attacks - often as a way to deflect accusations that America was at war with Islam.

September 18 was misty but even so it is easy to imagine figures on either side looking out and recalling that as well as being the day of the Scottish referendum it was also the centenary of the Irish Home Rule law that was immediately suspended because of the First World War.

Toward the end of the Cold War, there was a strong consensus that we were fighting on the right side of a struggle — for human freedom, dignity, and prosperity — whose outcome would have profound consequences for the world's future.

Let us look for a moment at clear cases of mass genocide such as Hitler carried out or cases of mass bombings which were carried out by both sides in the second world war and by the Americans in Vietnam.

The principal secretary of the USSR Academy of Sciences expressed the view that scientists on both sides of the Atlantic had reached a consensus and were unified in their view that nuclear war would spell disaster for the world.

Leaving aside those cold places in history where fascism, sport and war have coincided, when people have played football in the fear that the wrong result could cost them their lives, this Brazil side that will compete for the 2014 World Cup are about to embark on the most pressurised footballing campaign of all time.

War, on the other hand, was very much in, and while the majority of the First World War was a muddy, depressing exercise in imperial hubris and mechanised slaughter, dogfights came out the other side with their reputation enhanced.

This is the only league in the world where newly promoted sides can spend # 40 Million a year on players, the BPL in all honesty is at its most competitive, But as i mentioned before we can only attract / keep the high quality players if we show we are capable of winning silverware, We don't have a 700 million pound War chest to spend on players so were not gonna buy the league.

After a break of five games either side of the First World War, Billy's brother Elisha of Liverpool became Ireland's first choice keeper and remained between the sticks for 16 years.

The first year it was played was 1871 and an amateur side from London, Wanderers, and with the exception of World Wars it has been played every season since.

Heading further back in time Brentford Hall of Fame winger Leslie Smith spent 17 years with the two clubs either side of the Second World War.

The Irishman joined Manchester United in 1936 from Republic of Ireland side St. James» Gate, and aside from serving in the British Army in Italy during the Second World War represented United for almost two decades.

Perhaps, as I have always been keen on motorcars and driving, I would go back to the days before speed limits were imposed out of towns and look at those heroes in adventure and detective stories that drove a pre or post - Second World War Bentley or Alvis, with their magnifi cent long bonnets and separate headlights standing up on either side.

Moreover, both Russian actions and the terrorist menace remind those on both sides of the Atlantic that NATO remains the world's only serious multilateral security organization, retains its relevance in the security domain in the post-Cold War era, and has a key role to play in reference to the core security threats facing the West.

Even if one assumed that the system of the other side is unsustainable and will eventually collapse (which wasn't undisputed, see the answer by Royal Canadian Bandit for details): Until then the other block was still capable of starting another world war and likely willing to do so if they were sure they could win.

A case could be made that Japanese war crimes in world war 2 were simply extreme cases of the type of crimes committed by almost all sides in almost all wars - massacres of civilians are pretty common.

In the history of the world, no government has ever won a war where it's own people are paying all the costs of both sides.

«I'm much more critical of the fact that under the Blair era we knew, and this will all come out in the pubic inquiry, we knew that Blair flew just before the 1997 election to the other side of the world to meet Murdoch, we know that Tony Blair, three times in the ten days before the Iraq war was declared, was in touch with Rupert Murdoch»

Former party member Martin Heneghan, from Sheffield, told The Times: «Brexit is the biggest political event since the Second World War and Labour is now on the wrong side of history.»

When the veterans of World War I, on both sides of the political divide, returned from the front in 1918 and 1919, they came back as battle - hardened soldiers.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: May 15, 1915 As the Great War ground down to a deadlock, both sides sought some method of gaining an advantage.

Thirty seconds seemed a reasonable estimate of bin Laden's remaining life span, now that he personally represented fully one entire side in what was already being talked about as a proper world war.

Prior to World War II, the most common way to measure ocean temperatures was dropping a bucket over the side of a ship and scooping up some seawater and dunking a thermometer in.

We're like dominos... If one side of the world is failing, suffering and having a war, it will affect our part of the world sooner or later.

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Film noir flourished during the decades either side of the second world war, populated by shady characters operating in a grey moral world under their own rules and motivations, all with an impending sense of doom colouring their every actions.

DiCaprio will compete against himself as best actor for «Blood Diamond» and «The Departed,» and it will be Clint versus Clint for best director for «Flags of Our Fathers» and «Letters From Iwo Jima,» his twin examinations of the hard - fought World War II battle told from the American and Japanese sides.

Shadow of War's open world is filled with missions, rotating side missions, collectibles, and orc captains and it really does a good job of allowing you to go at your own pace and do the things that you want to do.

Unlike similar investigations in Belgium and Hawaii, the UK Gambling Commission has recently released a statement, though it's come out on the side of publishers like Overwatch «s Activision Blizzard, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 «s EA or Micro Machines: World Tour's Bandai Namco (shown above).

But he is Brad Pitt, luckily, so he can still play the lead in action movies like World War Z. Pitt is one of Hollywood's most reliable and beloved stars, someone with tremendous acting chops who also plays the whole fame game masterfully, and does his fair bit of philanthropy on the side.

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If Denis Villeneuve's Sicario offers a slick, thrilling look at the bleak and despairing world of the War on Drugs, then Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land can act as the gritty, real - world side of the same coin.