Sentences with phrase «today than war»

Is there a more urgent problem in the world today than war?

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.

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This is a much more complex world today than it was during the Cold War.

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.

And all of this, of course, is to say nothing of his easy flirtation with nuclear disaster; today we seem closer to war with North Korea than ever before.

So if we don't take action now, today's kids and tomorrow's workers will be the first generation in history to live shorter lives than their parents, not due to war but to complications from diabetes.

In today's world, the war for top talent is fiercer than ever.

Likewise, the so - called «Smartphone Patent Wars» have ballooned in recent years and today, several major companies spend more on patent litigation and defensive acquisition than on research and development.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

Following World War II, the city experienced a dramatic population loss and today is has fewer than 30,000 residents.

The news and events of today are no worse than during the height of the Cold War, or during WW1 or WW2, but overall it is true that man's world gets progressively worse and will continue to do so until man's effort to deny and hide from God reaches its cl - imax.

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...

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

More blood was spilled during holy wars than anyone remembers today.

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.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

From World War II until the 1970's — the same era during which income inequality has historically low — political partisanship was much more muted than it is today.

Today the existence of an international order depends on our discovery of some method (other than war or revolution or similar acts of violence) for the changing of the status quo.

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.

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

Kagan's occasional references to Reinhold Niebuhr suggest an awareness that there is more to the just war tradition than the pacifism that frequently dominates it today.

And we would probably be much more advanced than we are today without the constant religious wars like WWII.

In Iraq, a Christian population estimated at more than a million before the 2003 war — and considerably more prior to that — today stands at less than 300,000.

Few bands today are working harder than The War on Drugs, and few are reaping more astonishing rewards.

If it was skin color alone that mandated a black President at this time, I do wish it had been Colon Powell, or Herman Cain, or Congressman West, these men have always been leaders and uniter's, not dividers... The US today is more divided than before the Civil War... With obama, we are in deep trouble!

We went to war to end militarism, and there is more militarism today than ever before.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Today the Jewish population is an estimated 200,000 (out of a total population of more than one million), and only one synagogue remains of the 11 that existed before World War II.

Both tools have evolved significantly since the UN's founding (particularly the activity of peacekeeping, which today involves much more than simply keeping warring factions apart).

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

Working with Venezuela, neighboring countries or others that would be willing to provide safe passage to Qaddafi would be far preferable than the apocalyptic endgame that the regime might otherwise pursue for lack of alternatives... Threatening al - Qaddafi with war crimes prosecutions today may create perverse incentives with little strategic benefit.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino has $ 1.2 million in cash on hand with about a month to go before Election Day in November — a sum that is vastly smaller than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 25 million war chest, campaign - finance filings posted today show.

«Who here is the small «c» conservative saying to people «stay stuck in your sink estates» - have nothing better than what Labour gave you after the war... that's the fact of politics today - a party on this side of the house that wants to give people life chances and a Labour opposition that says «say stuck in poverty».»

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

Today less than 10 % of combat casualties dies from their wounds, compared with 19 % in World War II and 16 % in Vietnam.

These advances, combined with enhanced protective gear, helped produce the highest U.S. combat survival rates in history: Today less than 10 percent of combat casualties die from their wounds, compared with 19 percent in World War II and 16 percent in Vietnam.

Today, many Iraqi and Syrian archaeologists evoke this infamous chapter in medieval history to convey some sense of the devastation wrought by the so - called Islamic State (ISIL), along with the continued brutality of more than four years of civil war in Syria.

In the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War space race, the Apollo programme alone received as much as 0.8 per cent of the US's gross domestic product — equivalent to more than $ 60 billion today.

Had the author conducted a proper analysis of the role of the submarine today, rather than its former illustrious forbears of the Second World War, I suspect that he would have reached a different conclusion.

That figure is three times higher than estimates compiled a few years ago for global war - related deaths over the same period, Obermeyer's team reports today in the British Medical Journal.

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 - 1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere Hi, I am Hank Davis, and my business partner Mike Fagan and I would like to thank you for visiting our web page.

And thanks in part to the illustrative, magical blue tendrils left behind as the vessel soars at the faster - than - light - speed, viewers likely won't be put off from the messages of embracing diversity or the war mongering parallels of today's world as they're being told.

William Shatner is nothing if not diverse in hos interests and nothing shows that more than the announcement today that comics imprint Shatner Singularity has been launched by LNL Partners — publishers of Shatner's Man O» War graphic novel in the company's Cinematic Graphic Novel format.

A fine cast is thoroughly wasted in a tale that centers on old - fashioned Cold War - style conflict rather than the sort of terrorist drama that's more pertinent today.

Threat of nuclear war is not as prevalent today as the 1950s, thereby making Edwards» Godzilla a more diversionary spectacle rather than a contemporary social metaphor.

There may be no more successful actor working today than Chadwick Boseman — literally, given that Black Panther is the third - highest - grossing domestic film of all time ($ 690 million and counting) and that Avengers: Infinity War just debuted with the most lucrative U.S. opening weekend in movie history.

Avengers: Infinity War hit theatres worldwide today, and it has left us with more questions than answers.

There quickly followed his indie adoption farce «Flirting with Disaster» (1996), and the more mainstream, but no less subversive, Gulf War adventure «Three Kings» (1999)-- and now Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off - the - wall «I ♥ Huckabees», a deep plunge into the shallow end of existence, and a film whose quirky intelligence establishes him, along with Charlie Kaufman and Paul Thomas Anderson, as one of the most inventive writers working in cinema today.

In a world that needs to be saved from history's» effects like war, global warming, poverty, religion's ideology, hyper - consumption, etc.... Today's education (both classroom and beyond the classroom) has to be able to shape concerned individuals who can learn from human history and be more innovative than the box allows them, to be.