Sentences with phrase «side of the civil war»

At least part of the motivation was to declare that God was on the Union side of the Civil War.

The interesting part, I think, is that both seem to agree that Syria will be peaceful by the delivery date, because they are currently standing on opposing sides of the civil war.

This was the US wanting the resistance side of the civil war to win, but never committing their army behind it and after a few years, mostly pulling out.

If you want to learn about another side of the Civil War, its terrible consequences, and the grave injustices visited on supposedly «freed» slaves after the war ended, then this would be a good rental.

«Mercy Street» focuses on two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War — New England abolitionist Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green, whose family's luxury hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, has been converted into the Mansion House Union Army hospital.

Not exact matches

In the comics, Goliath sided with Captain America after the events of «Civil War» and appeared as part of his Secret Avengers team.

Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments.

Christianity was on both sides of the slavery issue before and during the Civil War.

Someone once asked Abraham Lincoln if he thought God was on the side of the North in the Civil War.

During the American civil war she walked into the army camps of both sides to denounce the abuse of black girls as «camp followers».

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deaWar, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deawar once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

The conservative mass of people, recovering from the shock of civil war, acknowledged that Luther might be in the right on many matters but were waiting to see whether, after the war, an excommunicate and an outlaw still had might on his side.

We would all like to believe that, had we lived in the days of the early church or the Protestant Reformation or the Civil War, we would have chosen the right side of things, but I think that's a bit presumptuous.

After learning about the plight of these children, can you still do nothing for them while at the same time thinking that if you had lived during the Civil War, you would have been on the side of freedom?

However, the banners in question (around 300 in number) only lightly peppered the Emirates stands, with fans on the other side of this bizarre Gooner civil - war belting out «One Arsene Wenger» in response.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hisCivil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hiscivil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's hiscivil rights legislation in the nation's history.

Afghanistan may experience the resumption of a civil war of the sort of 1990s, with regional states supporting their respective sides in a proxy war.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

Owens, who won with a plurality of the vote, was the first Democrat to capture New York's northern-most congressional district since the Civil War, but his victories in 2009 and 2010 were due in large part to divisions on the Republican side.

In lieu of a concrete law or a tidied up Amendment, the government can slip around the sides of Section 4, Article 14 regardless of whether constitutional scholars consider the section specific to the Civil War and future insurrections (that bothersome but neither conjunction) or general to all public debt.

In an astute and partly sympathetic article the former minister, John Denham, argues perceptively that Corbyn has not made up his mind whether to unify a party that is - with some exceptions on both sides - still capable of unity, or to go for a divisive strategy in which his long held views prevail after all out civil war.

The Tory grandee, one of the leading pro-Europeans on the British right, said that allowing ministers to campaign on opposing sides would lead to a «divisiveness», «bitterness» and «civil war» that would make the task of collective government very difficult.

The Lebanese civil war, fought in the streets of Beirut, exhibited another side of the vulnerability of urban water supplies.

Evan Brand: You know — If we're going into the Civil war and we've got — you know — 50 guys on the Confederate side, and we've got — you know — 5,000 guys on the North, that's — that's a not — That — That's a — That's uh — If you're the Confederates, you've got a bad chance of winning if you've only got 50 guys left and then the North has 5,000.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

This portion of the series talks about the causes of and start of the Civil War; the evolution of the drive to win on each side of the conflict and of President Lincoln's bold step towards freedom for all slaves in the United States.

- Bucky is a big part of the proceedings, and remembers Steve, and certainly joins his side in the upcoming Civil War.

Detroit makes clear that as the riot degenerates into uncontrollable violence, the issues of racism and civil rights fade into the darkness as the city is destroying itself in a war, both sides fighting for their lives.

The Russo brothers expanded on that brief tease while talking to io9 alongside Feige, suggesting Hawkeye's inclusion «in this group of insurgents» after Captain America: Civil War has forced him «to deal with the ramifications of siding against the U.S. government.»

Fans received their first glimpse at the group's inclusion into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the character Ayo, sen in Captain America: Civil War at T'Challa's side, her appearance marked the first on - screen depiction of his guard.

Civil War is more complex, and takes the time to properly justify the actions taken on either side of the movie's core story.

Some of Morgan's best writing lies here, within a conversation shared between Elizabeth and the abdicated Edward; where he describes the nature of a ruler as, «half - people... the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends.»

Cap was starting from a place where he and the rest of the Avengers who sided with him in Civil War, they've been living underground for the past couple of years, so the start of the film, they aren't the first to the table because they've had to live like fugitives.

Occupying flip sides of the coin, in terms of their tones, are the story threads for the two major MCU newcomers featured in Civil War: T'Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Peter Parker / Spider - Man (Tom Holland).

On the flip side, Markus and McFeely's Civil War screenplay provides several of the supporting characters in the MCU with intriguing - and substantial - subplots; in particular Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), who both get to further explore their powers and limitations alike here, following their debut in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

And even though he may be back with the good guys again following the events of Civil War, Stan can't quite seem to escape the pull of the dark side.

The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema — mainly the Fantastic Four dramas, rumours of a new Batman trilogy, picking sides for Captain America: Civil War and which huge cast member might not be returning for Max Max: The Wasteland?

One of the re-curring questions from fans was how some of the prominent Marvel Studios characters not in Civil War would side if they were part of the film.

Captain America: Civil War is in UK cinemas from April 29, and US cinemas from May 6 - still plenty of time to pick a side.

Here's what we know of Hawkeye's current situation: The archer went against the government to side with Captain America in the superhero civil war, which led to his incarceration in the prison facility known as The Raft.

Set to be introduced in Civil War ahead of his own stand - alone film in 2018, Black Panther will show up as more of a neutral party in the conflict over the superhero - registering Sokovia Accords backed by Tony «Iron Man» Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and resisted by Steve «Captain America» Rogers (Chris Evans), though he'll lean towards Tony's side of the argument.

As part of the festivities, Boseman was brought on stage alongside Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr., and Feige confirmed that we'll actually get to meet his character as part of the storyline for Captain America: Civil War, where he'll be forced to take a side in the clash between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark.

The Russos succeeded again with «Captain America: Civil War,» an overstuffed 2016 sequel in which the Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and a new incarnation of Spider - Man (Tom Holland) were introduced, and the adventurers took sides in a conflict between Cap and Iron Man.

And all by his side is 12 Years alum Chiwetel Ejiofor who will be in attendance May 19 (6 PM @ The Egyptian Theater) to talk about his new film Half of a Yellow Sun, an African - produced historical drama about Nigerian's civil war through the 60s.

Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman and more reveal Tony Stark's side of the story on the Civil War set.

The amusement runs all the way through the end of the end credits, as Reed tries to get Rudd to spill which side he'll be on Avengers: Civil War.

This also features a cool face - to - face shot of the two different sides brewing in this Marvel «Civil War», including Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, Paul Rudd as Ant - Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Paul Bettany as Vision, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlett Witch.

Finding himself caught in a Martian civil war between two human - like races trying to annihilate each other, he falls in love with the beautiful princess (Houston's own Lynn Collins) from one of the warring sides and helps them survive the menace of a devastating weapon given to their enemies from some strange mystical beings attempting to control the destiny of the planet.