Sentences with phrase «very public war»

The federal government has waged a very public war against smoking.

Not exact matches

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

By not parading UBL around as a trophy kill, we both limit the spectacle that many of our own gruesome or doubting public desire AND the propensity for backlash from the communities so very near the war we're fighting.

The current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

Iraq anger [2005 in Bethnal Green and Bow] was a very difficult election, for understandable reasons in terms of the public's sentiment about the war in Iraq.

One obvious method is public financing of campaigns, but it's very tough to persuade incumbents to limit their own resources, and Cuomo isn't exactly an outsider or a radical: His $ 16 million war chest contains money from all the usual suspects too.

«In my personal dealings with Andrew Cuomo we've been very careful to not set the stage for labor wars or, public verse private sector... discourse,» he said.

At the start of the war, the many retail societies in the Co-operative movement grew in both membership and trade, in part because of their very public anti-profiteering stance.

Graham's paper, edited by the firebrand Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), is respected but modest, and her push to expand the paper's influence by making it a public company comes to a head the very week that Ellsberg has a shoebox full of classified documents detailing decades of presidential deceptions about Vietnam War policy placed on the desk of one of The Washington Post's assignment reporters.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

The subject matter is very interesting as a depiction of things most media outlets refused to cover in their daily news, possibly prolonging the war by keeping public outrage at bay.

With just two days left until the first public screenings of Avengers: Infinity War around the world, there's still time for more footage to hit the web, but we'll be playing things very close to the vest when it comes to spoilers.

In 1959, six years before he authored the study that would remake America's segregated public schools, James S. Coleman found himself face to face with a very different foe: the inscrutable desires, evolving tastes, and secret motivations of the post — World War II American teenager.

We don't see other very often, but when we do she tells me how the state is waging an all out war against the public school system in favor of Charter Schools.

In March 1865, only a few weeks before the end of the Civil War, the tempestuous Mary Lincoln accompanied her husband on a visit to General Ulysses S. Grant's military headquarters at City Point, Virginia, where she had a very public meltdown.

Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of the future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age.

At a time when war criminals still held public office in the Bonn Republic, Kiefer and his contemporaries Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter were among very few Germans who dared to address the latent trauma of the Nazi era.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.

So my prediction is this: 2012 will see a very public bidding war between Google and Facebook to acquire Twitter.