Sentences with phrase «than fighting wars»

It would be a lot easier than fighting wars for it.

Mr Murphy apparently prefers home grown killings that make no sense, rather than fighting the war on terror, whihc he has thoughtfully characterized as «killing people in Iraq.»

Not exact matches

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

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.

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.

North and South Korea have technically still been at war since then, as the cessation of fighting was only enabled by an armistice signed in 1953 rather than a peace agreement.

The wars of the current and future are being fought in cyberspace, rather than on the front lines holding a fully automatic machine gun.

Being at war is worse for a currency than not being at war, whether you're fighting the world's financial authorities for legal validity, or engaged in a guerrilla skirmish as either aggressor or victim.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.

It stands to reason that Trump would seek an aggressive attorney, since all of his other moves in the last week indicate a decision to fight a war against Mueller, rather than seek a negotiated path.

Lei will need more than tricks as price wars and marketing bonanzas intensify the fight for market share.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

More than 200 people, including some who fought in America's wars dating back more than 70 years, gathered on the city's Riverwalk on Monday to honor those warriors who never came home.

They condoned slavery, they stoned people to death (if you think that is better than slavery you should read up on it), they fought wars, and committed atrocities.

The way I see it, US woud have had over 70 million more Americans suffering, kids that fought old mens war, more jails filled with criminals and a troubled society than we see today...

Would rather spend money on fighting wars than on supporting our fellow man.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry holt, 352 pages, $ 30 A nnihilating a civilization that has withstood more famines, invasions, peasant revolts, civil wars, and tyrants than historians can keep straight takes work.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runcimanby minoo dinshawallen lane, 784 pages, # 30 No events in medieval European history are more discussed today than the wars fought under the banner of the Cross of Christ known to us, but not to those who fought them, as the Crusades.

Then later, he decides that «these wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.»

Quoting from the article,»... these wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.»

More wars have been fought over religion than over anything else.

Wars were fought for the glory and power of nation states rather than for Christianity against the infidel, or for sectarian religious beliefs.

Like Gombrowicz, Kornowski comes from the lesser Polish - Lithuanian gentry; like Gombrowicz, he becomes a fashionable writer in Warsaw in the 1930s; like Gombrowicz, he is on a trans - Atlantic liner when war breaks out with Germany and, like Gombrowicz, rather than return to fight for his country, he jumps ship in Buenos Aires.

In war it's ususally plenty of innocent civilian life, sometimes way more than the soldiers doing the fighting.

There is apparently no thought given to the notion that, in a Christian community, celebrating a faithful and dedicated professor might be more honorable than fighting yet another skirmish in the great gender war.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

You must have read about the wars and killings between Catholics and Protestants when there were only Two of them Christian branches but since then you became to have more than Two in branches and each claims to be on right path or true Church... this was noted from the words of fights i was able to read within several posts on these Religion blogs...

There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did Egypt.

If there was a god and it really cared, I'd hope it would find something better for people to do than fight in wars.

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.

According to them seven conditions must coincide to make a war just: the cause fought for must itself be just; the purpose of the warring power must remain just while hostilities go on; war must be truly the last resort, all peaceful means having been exhausted; the methods employed during the war to vanquish the foe must themselves be just; the benefits the war can reasonably be expected to bring for humanity must be greater than the evils provoked by the war itself; victory must be assured; the peace concluded at the end of the war must be just and of such nature as to prevent a new war.

For wars and fightings is nothing more than a mechanism God set up for light to fight back against darkness and for good to fight back against evil.

He's saying they should be more interested in spreading the gospel, and helping sinners, than in denying them communion and fighting culture wars and participating in politics.

Energy seems to be a more modern reason than in the past but fighting over resources has always been a role in wars.

As for the Mexican War, «the deadliest that the United States has ever fought»» one in ten American soldiers died in less than two years of service» Howe makes a persuasive case that it was provoked by Anglo settlers with the connivance of the Polk administration as part of a cynical scheme to take California and the Southwest from Mexico.

But what if we had chosen to fight the war in North Vietnam» i.e., to invade» rather than stand on the strategic defensive in the South?

Likewise, the Palestinians «suffer more casualties than Israelis not because... they are somehow more moral» but because they are not as adept in fighting real soldiers in the full «fledged war that is growing out of their own intifada.»

But if the war was about anything, it was about preserving a way of life, and that life included a game that suddenly seemed more worth fighting for than ever.

But they may now have to act quicker than expected in order to fight off Barcelona in a bidding war that could go as high as # 45million.

The ones I send are frequently less BALANCED than the cafeteria lunch, since I choose not to fight the vegetable wars when I'm not present.

The Conservative Party fought a good ground war, winning more seats than the average national swing would suggest

A big beast, he fought in the war and knew that there has to be more to life than politics.

With less than two months before the state budget is due, Governor Cuomo and education groups remain at odds, with the state teacher's union calling the fight a «war,» and Cuomo calling the teachers and their allies a bloated bureaucracy.

In a speech last night, Mr Clarke said the Government was in danger of equipping the nation to «fight the last war» and the Cold War rather than the threats facing it in the 21st centuwar» and the Cold War rather than the threats facing it in the 21st centuWar rather than the threats facing it in the 21st century.

«There is a strong case for prioritising our security spending on what are likely to be the main security threats we face in the future, rather than building new weapons to fight the last war.»