Sentences with phrase «through civil wars»

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Through civil wars and Mongol conquest, the word of God has not just survived, but has united our people.

«We have a recent history of significant population loss through civil wars and disease,» he says.

Cote d'Ivoire next door which has come through a civil war after an electoral dispute has, thanks to disciplined, honest and prudent management, recovered dramatically.

Nearly three quarters of the people in the world's poorest societies have recently been through a civil war or are still in one.

Enter the now adult Victor (Liev Schreiber) and Logan (Hugh Jackman) as we are treated to a war montage through the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam where the brothers are teamed in brutal combat side - by - side for over a century.

As sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the civil war, and the abolition of slavery.

The 16th president persevered and led the nation through the Civil War, somehow managing to unite the frayed Union.

Sure, it's pessimistic, if you had lived through a civil war in which 1/10 of your countrymen had been killed, how positive would you have been?

I wanted to find four women who lied, wheedled, avenged, flirted, shot, drank and spied their way through the Civil War.

Certainly they were annexed by Spain and went through a civil war, but the government was declared a democracy in 1869 — at an earlier stage than many countries that still haven't been declared as such.

The scenario mirrors the modern day Ukraine where the US and Russia are waging a proxy war through the civil war in Georgia.

Sustained by an endowment that includes the Chrysler Building, it has indeed been «free to all» since 1859, through the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression and numerous recessions.

A senior enlisted medical rate, surgeon's steward, was introduced in 1841 and remained through the Civil War.

Train buffs of all ages will also enjoy taking a ride on a vintage train from the East Chattanooga Station of the Tennessee Valley Railroad, which offers a six - mile sightseeing tour that includes passage through a Civil War tunnel.1

has lived through the Civil War.

Not exact matches

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).

On July 4, 1866, the first Independence Day following the American Civil War, a fire triggered by fireworks swept through Portland and destroyed 1,5000 buildings.

But the tactic of trying to hit forestry companies through their customers, of seeking out and winning international attention and the War in the Woods» successful use of civil disobedience became a model for environmentalists around the world.

He has reported from more than 15 countries in the region, a journey that took him through Egypt's revolution and counterrevolution, civil war in Syria and assaults in Iraq launched by Islamic State militants.

In his book The Lost Science of Money, Stephen Zarlenga has traced the following monetary history of the civil war greenbacks (through the Campbell paragraph below).

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

Just as we will never know if JFK would have followed through on his plans to withdraw troops from Viet Nam or how Abe Lincoln would have handled reconstruction after the Civil War.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.»

Obama also advanced a narrative about the universal struggle for human rights that ran from the American Revolution and the Civil War through Tunis and Cairo and beyond.

Through Lincoln it articulated the ideological meaning of the Civil War.

During the Civil War, he refused to fight, saying, «In this respect I am a Quaker,» but he worked through the YMCA and the United States Christian Commission to evangelize the Union troops.

American Anglicans are ill informed about East Africa, Rwanda, and the Anglican situation there, except through hagiographical accounts penned by the victors of the Rwandan Civil War.

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»

(Pictured: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian mother of six who won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which mobilized both Christian and Muslim women to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, protests, sit - ins, diplomacy, and sex strikes.

Boris Pasternak told the story of revolution and civil war through a love story.

KENEMA, Sierra Leone — A short - term missions team from South Coast Community Church in New Orleans, La., arrived in this country racked by three decades of civil war, and began serving the ravaged people through the ministries of clowning and puppetry.

On one such recent pilgrimage to Charlottesville, my route took me through Bull Run Park, the site of two major Civil War battles.

Poland freed itself from Soviet rule through the resurgence of Christian civil society, and the heroism of its people was a crucial factor in the West's winning the Cold War.

So in 2002 she organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which sought to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, silent protests, and (perhaps most effectively) a sex strike.

Through a rice research and development project, women who recently fought in the civil war of the east African country of Burundi are getting unprecedented access to farm land and training to produce rice and are building better livelihoods for themselves, their families, and communities.

Landis's father, Abraham H. Landis, was a surgeon attached to the 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment that marched through Georgia with General William Tecumseh Sherman in the climactic battles of the Civil War.

Have you heard about the Civil War nurse who got pregnant from a patient she was treating when a bullet passed through his testicle and lodged into her peritoneum?

That is, before we run into civil wars over «bandwagoning» for not supporting the club enough through tough times.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

Reading the history of the Anglicans in the 20th century, through the records of the Lambeth Conferences, ACCs and Primates» meetings, one sees the faithfulness of God through world war, economic crisis, civil and international conflicts, persecution and deep changes in cultural context.

«a political tradition that goes back from today's Climate Camp through anti-war, anti-colonial, and anti-slavery movements, suffragism, Chartism, and the Levellers during the English Civil War.»

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

Energy courses through a prologue telling the story — often of glorious defeat — of the demands for democracy from below from the English Civil War to 1848.

Museum Hours: Wednesday through Friday: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. — 4 p.m.. About: Incorporated during the Civil War in 1863, the Onondaga Historical Association's main goals are «collecting and preserving historical, genealogical, scientific and literary material» related to Onondaga County, per its charter.

The Spanish CNT trade union, for example, for a brief period in the Civil War, put many of these republican self - government principles into practice through their collectivisation of industry in Barcelona and Catalonia.

Sirleaf guided the nation out of ruin following back - to - back 1989 - 2003 civil wars and through the horrors of the 2014 - 16 Ebola crisis, but is accused of failing to combat poverty and tackle corruption.

Theresa May (pictured at church in her Maidenhead constituency today with husband Philip) is facing the threat of a major escalation in the Tory civil war if she tries to force through plans for a customs partnership with the EU

«Never again should we as a nation go through conflict like we did with the civil war.