Sentences with phrase «than a war of»

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Krasinski and his cowriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (Nightlight) maintain a greater air of mystery around the film's monsters than War of the Worlds does its own, but that only accentuates A Quiet Place's throughline about the experience of raising kids to survive in a dangerous world that even their parents don't fully understand.

BE: Stephen Elop, the Chief Executive of Nokia, said that his company is in a war of ecosystems and a war of platforms, rather than a war of products.

Centuries lie between the present - day soldiers and the duke, but the implication is clear: the glorious victories on which his reputation and family fortune were built are no less traumatic and horrific than the wars of today.

Instead, the furor over this single project has overshadowed the two countries» overall energy and environmental relationship and left little more than a war of words between those with vested interests on all sides.

Actually, if you look at the discussion (take, for example, the comments to Mitch Kowalski's Dec. 30 slaw.ca article, which ran to 52 pages — and counting — as of this week) it seems less a debate than a war of ideological stances — there's for and there's against.

Not exact matches

If for no other reason than that I don't want to land on the same date as one of the «Star Wars» sequels,» Cameron said.

To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

«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.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsOf course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof money despite toxic reviews).

She also had moments of incredible and unconventional bravery as when she vowed to stay by his side during the Cuban missile crisis when the threat of nuclear war was greater than it has ever been.

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII economic boom.

New prime minister Malcolm Turnbull brings with him a better working knowledge of how Western Australia functions than any of his predecessors since the days of war time PM John Curtin, who died in 1945.

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

In many ways, the combat in the new «God of War» feels more «Dark Souls» or «Bloodborne» than «God of War.»

At the end of the day, I have more appreciation for being able to make an impact on someone's life than I have for helping to liberate Iraq in one war.

The site of fierce battles during the Korean War, Gangwon's mountains remain a focal point for recovery missions searching for the remains of more than 7,700 American soldiers still unaccounted for, according to Pentagon figures.

Reaction from lawmakers was far more positive than anyone could have predicted during the Bush - era estrangement of France and the U.S. over the Iraq War.

Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.

De Beers spokesman Andrew Coxon estimated the value of conflict diamonds produced from three African states involved in civil war at more than US$ 255 million.

Irish research firm Eagle Alpha, for example, digested 7,416 comments on a Reddit gaming thread in October to predict that Electronic Arts (EA) would sell more of its new Star Wars videogame than it had projected; Electronic Arts soon raised its sales forecast, citing «excitement» over the game.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

«We've opened up a new front in the trade war, and while it's quieter than all of the bombast about tariffs that had people freaking out, there are still a ton of companies that can get hurt here,» the «Mad Money» host said.

There is now more reported «activity from Russian submarines than we've seen since the days of the Cold War,» Johnstone told Jane's.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

For both Apple and Google, the fight for dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosystems.

He will argue that seeking «peaceful solutions» is a better way of protecting Britain than «the kind of unilateral wars and interventions that have almost become routine in recent times».

He declined to give further details but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain - based monitor of the war, said the handover had happened on Monday and involved fewer than 10 villages.

If there is anything that can generate more sequels than the Star Wars franchise, it's the saga of Walt Disney's CEO succession.

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

With «HDR» lighting (high - dynamic range) being employed by upcoming games like «Gears of War 4» and «Scalebound,» the Xbox One S is capable of making games look better than ever.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

The annual death toll far exceeds the total number of U.S. military killed in more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

By the end of trading, fear of an all - out trade war had knocked more than 2 % off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

As the recent smartphone wars illustrate, patents covering visible features of a user interface may be significantly more valuable than patents directed to behind - the - scenes algorithms for driving the features.

So for now, we're still in the bluff and bluster phase; technically speaking, the current conflict is better described as a war of words than a trade war.

Markets have been on edge in recent sessions amid concerns of a potential trade war between China and the U.S.. On Wednesday, China announced fresh tariffs on 106 U.S. products, including cars, whiskey and soybeans — less than 24 hours after the U.S. administration issued a list of Chinese imports that it would target.

Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.

Fusion bombs are also on alert and ready to launch, and they are thousands of times more powerful than any nuclear weapons detonated during World War II.

If the objective is to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and avoid the outbreak of war, high - profile military exercises and additional deployments may do more harm than good.

Russia is thought to use military contractors in Syria rather than its military — experts speculate it's to maintain deniability for acts of war and conceal the true cost of fighting from the Russian people.

Faber is one of the most gloomy people you'll meet in the investment world, constantly issuing warnings about where you should live if the war comes (rural farmland), and what will happpen to the dollar (it will be worth less than toilet paper).

KERNEN: You want... PRESIDENT TRUMP: We need almost more than ever before — I mean, we've been in wars so we needed it then — but we need to be sure that our military is properly funded, and it would be really great to get rid of the, you know, we'd like to have a regular budget.

William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told Reuters: We are in a much more dangerous situation today than we were in the Cold War.