Sentences with phrase «state into civil war»

Not exact matches

«I have consistently taken the best course that I can to try to end the civil war, while having also to take into account the long - term national security interests of the United States,» Obama said.

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of mostly Gulf Arab states intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to try and push back the Houthis after the movement drove the internationally recognized government into Saudi exile.

There would need to be a whole fierce debate first which would turn the whole community into a metaphorical state of civil war, then a vote, then miners have to agree, then there might be a coin - split, price would probably dive, and so on.

As Syria is a Russian ally / client state, U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war was bound to anger Russia and draw them into the conflict to protect their sphere of influence.

Calling the tax overhaul an «economic civil war,» he said he's studying how to revamp the state's tax structure to convert the income tax into a payroll tax.

In the Reconstruction following the Civil War, later Union leaders like Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's successor), made only half - hearted efforts to really deeply assimilate the formerly Confederate states into the Union and when Reconstruction ended Confederate and white supremacist sympathies remained strong.

For the purpose of what follows I am assuming that Jeremy Corbyn (JC) will win the leadership contest, which now appears very likely, and that Labour does not split or collapse into a state of civil war, which is somewhat less likely but will hopefully be the case.

The executive order tosses a grenade into efforts to find safe havens in the United States for scholars displaced by the civil war in Syria and simmering conflicts in Iraq and Yemen.

The navy blue remained to have a military meaning all the way into the late 1800's, but during the American Civil War, it became the defining colour of the Union soldiers who were fighting the Confederate States of America.

In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave - owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves.

When last we saw Captain America's best friend Bucky in Civil War, he voluntarily chose to go back into a coma in the labs of Wakanda, while the state - of - the - art scientists there figured out how to remove the programming that transformed him from hunky one - armed W.W. II vet into a hunky one - armed killing machine.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

It used the background a steampunk - style Seattle overrun by noxious gas and zombies, all while the Civil War continues to ravage the rest of the United States well into the 1880s.

There were Canes in Canada before the United States erupted into civil war.

Clint next took on the role of Creative Director on FAR CRY 2, a controversial title that took players into the «Heart of Darkness» of a fully realized African state torn apart by civil war.

Set in the year 2014, Mexico has sunken into a civil war which poses an immediate threat to the United States.

On this day in 1868, Louisiana and a number of other southern states were readmitted into the United States after the Civistates were readmitted into the United States after the CiviStates after the Civil War.

In Walker Percy's book The Last Gentleman the protagonist is constantly going into a «fugue state» and awaking from his amnesia to find he's no longer in New York City but on a historic Civil War battlefield in Virginia, hundreds of miles away.

Mark Wallinger's State Britain installation at Tate Britain was a rare example of a poised and poetic response to the curtailing of civil liberties that have taken place during the Iraq war, and is one of a number of more oblique responses to contemporary events that drag the discussion into the realm of art without compromising their efficacy as works of art (Alfredo Jaar «s and An - My Lê's works operate on similar levels).

The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's civil war.

«Recently, in Pakistan, we've seen enormous floods, and some real questions about the viability of the state as a whole, the possibility now many people are discussing is the country disingregating into regions, and perhaps civil war, or an extremist takeover of some kind...»

What type or level of interference by other states changes the character of a civil war into an international armed conflict?