Sentences with phrase «suffered in world war»

Behind their unwavering commitments may be the terrible trials these countries suffered in World War II and the postwar years.
And obviously a miserable time in history that we remember here at the White House and certainly will never forget the Jewish people that suffered in World War II,» Priebus said.
And obviously a miserable time in history that we remember here at the White House and certainly will never forget the Jewish people that suffered in World War II.»
St Just from 1953 (pictured right), another well - known work, named after a mining village near Land's End, was conceived of as a crucifixion in honour of the Cornish miners from which the figure of Christ had, he said, been «napalmed out» — an echo both of the then - ongoing Korean War and his own sufferings in World War Two.

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This soldier, who had to keep his relationship hidden from those around him, was just one of the approximately two million German men killed in World War I. His suffering is not unlike what many others experienced.
Economically, China may be highly vulnerable and will suffer worse consequences than the U.S. in a trade war, but as the world's second - largest economy, it can still deliver a powerful counter punch.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, a war with North Korea is the markets» biggest geopolitical black swan, because it would likely be cataclysmic, with hundreds of thousands dead, the world's fifth - largest metro area, Seoul, suffering massive destruction, and perhaps even nuclear or chemical weapons unleashed on Japan or U.S. bases in the region.
This conclusion is especially poignant in light of the past century, when violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of abortion.
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.
They were the Minjung who suffered most cruelly in World War II.
Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,» cried a Jewish refugee to R. Hayyim Soloveitchik of Brest - Litovsk shortly before his death in World War I — era Warsaw.
Pope Francis has called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long - suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».
I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.
In a century that had seen two hideous world wars and innumerable examples of massive human suffering, John Paul established a new Feast of Divine Mercy, giving men and women a practical means of accessing the forgiveness of a loving God.
They suffered real traumas, too, both under Stalin's repressions and by paying the greatest price in World War II (or the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets misnamed it, and as modern Russia still does).
«No Bravery» is also touching; I know an 80 - something World War II veteran, sadly now suffering with Parkinson's Disease, and it puts me in mind of him every time.
The sufferings of the Second World War and the spread of communism served to accentuate the note of sober realism in the social attitudes of the ecumenical movement.
When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.
For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.
After all of the genocide, murder, hate, vengeance, poverty, racism, famine, disease, war, and suffering in this world, one can logically conclude the GOD HATES US ALL.
David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jewin Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jewin Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jewin the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against JewIn literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jewin all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.
When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Pope Pius XI declared wars of conquest to be unjust, and during the Second World War Pope Pius XII worked for peace and tried to protect the suffering.
The countries in eastern Europe, having already suffered from German occupation, which came under Communist control after the Second World War, experienced the same hostility to religious life.
Here was the inception of the largest exploitation in all history of one race by another — with the heartless barbarity of the tribal wars whose victims were sold to the European slavers, the incredible suffering of the trans - Atlantic passage, and the cruelties inflicted in the plantations of the New World.
Money: Responsible for more wars, persecution, suffering, injustice and murder than any other cause in the world.
A 97 - year - old World War II veteran and former church warden has vowed to recover after suffering a «horrific» late - night robbery in Greater Manchester.
Moreover, the often bloody drama of the postwar transition to responsive and responsible government in Iraq» a society that suffered for thirty years under the lash of a regime that rivaled those of Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung for viciousness» has guaranteed that the seismic shocks generated by the Iraq War will affect world politics for years, and likely decades, to come.
The breakthrough to the recovery of a biblical God who shares in creation's suffering came particularly in the World War I reflections of the Irish - Anglican Geoffrey Studdert - Kennedy, later championed by Jürgen Moltmann.
Baroness Cox became a champion of the suffering Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, travelling at the height of the war to bring humanitarian aid, and to document the atrocities and provide a voice in the outside world.
In the 21 seasons between the wars only Motherwell, with one victory, broke their monopoly of the league championship, and when other clubs emerged more forcefully after World War II it was Celtic and not Rangers who suffered.
Imagine if we all acted in a positive way «as if» we wanted peace, an end to war and suffering, an end to world hunger, better relationships with our loved ones.
Being a huge producer of arms during the world wars and suffering no foreign invasion that would impede its production or force it to reconstruct post-war made for a large post-war arms industry that continued to grow as the cold war set in.
Both Kohl and Gorbachev, for instance, had suffered as teenagers in the second world war and that provided a basis for building trust between them.
After the second world war, it suffered its share of «marsh cowboys» and as a result the sporting rights held by the Crown Estates were taken over by the Nature Conservancy Council, now the CCW, when the area was designated as a National Nature Reserve in 1968.
The repercussions of the defeat will be felt in Scotland, where Labour is suffering its worst slump in popularity since the second world war.
In the American Civil War, veterans suffered from «soldier's heart»; in World War I, it was called «shell shock,» and in World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.&raquIn the American Civil War, veterans suffered from «soldier's heart»; in World War I, it was called «shell shock,» and in World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.&raquin World War I, it was called «shell shock,» and in World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.&raquin World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.»
More than a million soldiers in World War II suffered enough mental symptoms to be deemed unfit for combat.
One landmark epidemiological investigation found that people born in the Dutch Hunger Winter during World War II suffered from an elevated
Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.
Instead, it is the sense that Hogwarts has suffered blitzkrieg - like blows as London did in World War II.
It is better, perhaps, to think of «The Uninvited» as a precursor of the many supernatural love stories — like «The Ghost and Mrs. Muir» (1947) and «Portrait of Jennie» (1948)-- that appeared in the grim aftermath of World War II, when American had again become, in Drew Gilpin Faust's phrase, a republic of suffering.
The third installment of the Risen series, the game will take place in a world where the gods have abandoned and the lands suffer from the Titan Wars.
In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) re-enters America after having served in World War II and now suffering from post-traumatic stresIn Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) re-enters America after having served in World War II and now suffering from post-traumatic stresin World War II and now suffering from post-traumatic stress.
Matt Lanter, who provides the poor impersonation of Hayden Christensen that serves as the voice of Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars, plays Will, a white guy who can't commit to his uber - hottie girlfriend Amy (Vanessa Minnillo) because he suffers from nightmares that the world will end.
He learns that his father was a victim of persecution in Auschwitz during the Holocaust of World War II and that he was once made to suffer public humiliation by the Nazi officer Aloise Muller.
THE GIVER Starring: Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep Directed by: Phillip Noyce In a seemingly perfect community, one without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the «real» world.
The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.
In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the worlIn a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the worlin it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the worlin a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the worlin wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the worlin some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.
«Richard P. Grossenheider: The Artist,» is a biography that takes readers on a journey with an American ornithologists to see the great wildlife artists of his time, the art he created, and the animals he encountered in their native state while he suffered the usual travails other soldiers met in the Pacific during World War 2.
Lucy's parents may also have suffered from PTSD — her father as a result of service in World War II, and her mother from her own abusive family background, suggested in Strout's previous novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, when Lucy's mother can not touch her own daughter and explains that growing up she never slept but only catnapped.
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