Sentences with phrase «subsequent wars of»

Much of the Old Testament is filled with blood, whether it is the blood spilled in the sacrificial rituals of the Mosaic Law or the blood spilled during Canaanite Conquest and subsequent wars of Israel.

Not exact matches

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the subsequent Gulf War, further dampened things.

In the period leading up to the 2008 global recession, KingFisher established a war chest that allowed it not only to ride out the downturn but also finance its subsequent purchase of two Washington - based manufacturers: Renaissance Marine Group and Hells Canyon Marine (KingFisher also employs approximately 200 people at its U.S. facility).

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

It was in Kindleberger's book that I also first learned about the impact of the Franco - Prussian War of 1870 - 71 and the subsequent reparations payments on global financial markets (which I discuss extensively in a February blog entry) and in unleashing the final stage of a global liquidity bubble that ended with the various panics of 1873.

Central - bank bond buying, which occurred in the 1940s to finance the war and the subsequent rebuilding of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan, may also keep a lid on yields.

In this role, among the stories he notably anchored are: the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 along with the subsequent manhunt and ultimate capture of the Tsarnaev brothers; the financial crisis of 2008; the War in Iraq (2003); the War in Afghanistan (2001), as well as the murderous terrorist attacks and devastating aftermath of 9/11.

Subsequent chapters take up the relation between values and suffering in early Christian times, in the enlightened eighteenth century, in the Romantic and Victorian periods, in the Europe of both world wars, and in America.

As the war of words dies down, the subsequent peace must bring with it ecumenical consequences.

Over the ensuing years, I saw faith marching us to war, with George W Bush, a president who claimed to get his marching orders from God, and the subsequent disastrous invasion of Iraq.

The new environmentalism was peopled by many of the same activists who had been instrumental in the anti-America's - war - in - Vietnam movement, and, in subsequent decades, the new environmentalism has displayed characteristics similar to the fundamentalism or fideism of those who cling to the wreckage of the conventional narrative of America - in - Vietnam.

Instead, the sentence in question was part of a discussion of Augustine's view of just war and its subsequent implications during the medieval crusading movement.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Treatment of Jews by Germany spilled over its borders and the whole world paid the price in many subsequent wars.

One can not help but wonder whether the parallels with the South's defeat in the American Civil War and the subsequent rise of the «Sun Belt» economy merit investigation.

This book particularly addresses the events of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent U.S. declaration of a «war on terror.»

(Deuteronomy 7:2 - 3) Similar instructions appear in subsequent texts and they are clear that not only are the Israelites to make total war on the inhabitants, but they are also prohibited from entering into any sort of peace treaty with any group.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes Trial and the subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left.

Israel should acknowledge the right of return or compensation to Palestinian refugees; we have to acknowledge also that if the Palestinians had accepted the 1947 UN partition plan, which the Palestine National Council approved last November in Algiers, all the wars, all the expulsions and all the subsequent suffering might have been avoided, and we would today be enjoying peaceful coexistence in two neighboring states.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

American troops entered Mexico City where the Mexican - American War ended in 1848 establishing the southern borders of the United States, where the subsequent Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo resulted in the United States purchase of Mexicos northern territories.

Maunsel White also marketed cotton grown from his war contacts, including General John Coffee from Tennessee, the subsequent Surveyor General of Mississippi Territory & Alabama Lands, who also served under General Jackson.

The unraveling of Yemen's government and subsequent civil war has only increased the operational reach of al - Qaeda.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

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.

Between them the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats won 59.0 % of the popular vote, the largest share for a subsequent government since World War Two.

de Blasio invoked his father's World War II service and injury, and subsequent struggles, in urging the audience to «never let their memories go» of service members injured or killed.

Would like to see an answer that brings up the historic use of drugs, the opium wars, the alcohol prohibition in the U.S and the subsequent criminalization of marijuana.

[78] The decisions that led up to the Iraq war and its subsequent conduct were the subject of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry (commonly referred to as the «Chilcot report»).

Vietnam veterans who died in the years subsequent to the war of Agent Orange and PTSD were remembered at a ceremony at the Kingston Armory on Sunday.

When the district was redrawn in 2012, Espaillat warned that forcing the two groups to compete for the same congressional seat would lead to «20 years of nuclear political war,» and his subsequent campaigns against Rangel were speckled with racial overtones.

The subsequent by - election was fought under the shadow of the Iraq war and won by the Liberal Democrats from third place, making Parmjit Singh Gill the only Liberal Democrat MP from an ethnic minority.

Out of the traditions and organizational culture established during the late 1940s and 1950s came AAAS's activism of subsequent decades on social issues such as racial justice, the environment, and the war in Vietnam.

Whereas the stage - adapted War Horse used history for melodrama and Spielberg's subsequent Lincoln and Bridge of Spies took pride in their monochromatic iciness, The Post embraces humanity and principles while treating them to the technical splendor that have long defined the director's films.

We learn about her growing up in a broken home and subject to physical and emotional abuse by her mother LaVona (Allison Janney, The Help), her marriage to Jeff Gilooley (Sebastian Stan, Captain America Civil War) when she was young and the subsequent abuse during that relationship, and of course her skating career.

Sterritt ** A well - to - do Protestant clergyman falls in love with a younger woman, complicating his passage through the World War I era and subsequent years of changing social conditions.

But it is Muriel's deft combination of high modernism and leftist critique — bearing out Gilles Deleuze's comment that Resnais and Straub - Huillet are the most political filmmakers — that has influenced so many subsequent films, including Michael Haneke's Caché and, most extensively, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which JLG called a «partner» to the Resnais, and which features a poster of Muriel as homage, also condemns a criminal war (Vietnam), and similarly parallels a portrait of a woman with that of a city under urban renovation.

With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent films failed to pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier works.

Transcending genre, infamous ensemble efforts include the original incarnation of rat pack comedy Ocean's Eleven (and subsequent remake, and sequels), John Hughes» seminal teen flick The Breakfast Club, and Steven Spielberg's war offering Saving Private Ryan.

It took 18 months to shoot each portions of «Infinity War» back - to - back (the sequel is due out subsequent summer season), placing a stranglehold on a few of our absolute best film stars, like Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Mackie.

His childhood work as a newsboy and subsequent career as a crime writer are dealt with fairly briskly but the bulk of the film, and the best material, deals with his time in the Second World War.

The back - to - back epics of Avengers: Infinity War and subsequent yr's Avengers 4 is supposed to conclude the grand cycle of the MCU that started with Iron Man in 2008.

It's two things at once: a warm look at male friendship and also a more expansive statement about America coming to terms with the Iraq war and the subsequent capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.

The final part of the story tells of his eventual capture and subsequent days of hard physical labor and abuse in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp run by the sadistic Mutsuhiro Watanabe (a solid debut by Japanese pop star Miyavi), aka «the Bird» (because he can see and hear everything), who makes it his mission to break the spirited Olympic champ down.

In fact, the only draw may be seeing George Lucas» name attached to the project, and the subsequent morbid curiosity that makes one wonder what a CGI fantasy musical by the creator of Star Wars is all about.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Captain America: Civil War feels like the conclusion of a series, despite the leads for subsequent films.