Sentences with phrase «war against his country»

Gambian controversial president, Yahya Jammeh, has accused West African regional body, ECOWAS, of declaring war against his country for refusal to step down at the end of his mandate this month.

The Kremlin has never admitted to launching or sanctioning cyberattacks against Georgian media, communications and transportation companies in advance of Russia's 2008 ground war against that country.

Also with regard to Nordheus, he makes an interesting point that the Stern report is like making war against a country that may have nuclear capability in the distant future.

Not exact matches

In view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies, when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the euro.

Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the country in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people and pitted multiple warring sides against each other, including jihadists who have come to dominate the insurgency in many areas.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

He added: «That's why this war against common sense waged by the government of this country is extremely dangerous.

Ansi's reported death suggests the covert U.S. drone program against the Yemen branch of the global militant group is continuing, despite the evacuation of American military advisers from the country amid a worsening civil war.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack «cowardly and inhuman» and said France was faced with a war against terrorism, but he vowed that the country would not be destabilised.

The war came to have two forms: a conventional conflict that revolved around the Mannerheim Line — Finnish fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus — and a campaign of harassment and attacks waged by Finnish ski troops against Soviet personnel in the country's forests.

«If the U.S. does take protectionist measures, then other countries are likely to take justifiable retaliatory actions against U.S. companies that have an advantage... in fields such as finance and high - tech, leading to a tit - for - tat trade war that benefits no one,» it said.

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

As sales of Belgian sweets boom internationally, the country has gone to war against chocolate forgery.

In contrast, China's state media described Xi's promises as simply the next stage in the country's economic restructuring and reform, albeit with the caveat that countries that «frequently launch trade wars against other countries» would not benefit from it.

Imposing tough sanctions would fulfill the president's promises but could tip off trade wars around the world as other countries seek to retaliate against the United States.

A trade war is when two countries pursue tit - for - tat protectionism against each other — they take turns blocking the other country's exports with tools like tariffs (border taxes) and quotas (caps on imports).

WASHINGTON — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an «assault on our country» by foreign competitors.

I am against war, being raised in the Vietnam war era (another mistake, in my opinion), and there are many political reasons why certain countries in the middle east do not like us, which probably has translated down to Muslims not liking us.

Christianity doesn't cause «reigious wars», people taking land that other people think belongs to them and countries supporting equally evil terrorism against other terrorists cause «religious wars».

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

There's not that much of a distinction... Jewish Neocons and Christian Neocons (ie the 15 % German Ethnic majority in this country and all of the other White people who are following them hook line and sinker) are on the same team and have waged a war TOGETHER against the Arabs.

Joseph Smith and Bringum Young (The Racist) took arms against our country and are considered gods to the LDS Everyone needs to read the story of the Mormon Wars and Joseph Smith arrested for treason.

Along the same lines, this week we remembered the anniversary of the tragic terrorist attack that took place on 9 - 11, and western countries have been waging war against terrorist ever since.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

He might be angry at all the horrible horrible things that white America has done to blacks, but he never tried to start his own country and wage a war against the United States!!!!

And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies, and all our oil that non-Americans in other countries are living on.

Should the two countries go to war again, the church spires of Lahore and Karachi may not stand long against a rain of Indian bombs.

A Nigerian archbishop has warned there could be a civil war in his country between Christians and Muslims if believers take revenge for the continuing attacks against them.

The «fascination» of Islam is it's legitimation of evil deeds as good deeds (for example the Koran requires Muslims countries to conduct aggressive war against Jewish and Christian countries, which is a heavy crime).

The ICC, based in The Hague, tries cases of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide when a country's own courts fail to prosecute.

n 1797, the United States Senate ratified a treaty with Tripoli that stated in Article 11: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

The effort to distract the country from this indefensible record with claptrap about a Republican war on women, a papist plot against access to contraception, legal semantics about same - sex relationships, and other red herrings, has failed.

Muslims in this country are a small minority of no more than 2 percent, most of them relatively recent arrivals, and are associated with a religion in whose name, however illegitimately, war has beendeclared against America.

I can imagine Muhammad invented the Koran for a fight merely against neighbouring countries of Arabia, but he would be astonished that now his war - book is used to conquer the whole world.

I've searched on whether any of these guys have spoken out against what this terry jones is threatening, especially Bush, since he went national TV, as President and said what he said about this country not being at war with Islam.

You made yourself a terrorist apologist when you equated my country's actions in the war on terror to terrorism itself and suggested the fight against terror is the reason why it is spreading.

It had been a march «to touch the heart of God,» he said, and to call people of faith in his own country and throughout the world to bolder action to stop the U.S. war against Nicaragua.

A country which in the name of «democracy» fights wars against the self - determination of other peoples can not remain a democracy.

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?!

Italy attacked Turkish forces in Libya, and the Balkan countries declared war against Turkey shortly before the first World War — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empiwar against Turkey shortly before the first World War — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman EmpiWar — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen, — and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

The ten years (1979 - 1989) of war against Soviet Union occupation, fought with the military support of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, ruined the country enormously.

Islam is religion of peace with who wants peace but not for those who look for war against it... Besides quoting «A force to be feared» this what would the Israelies say worrying from reactions after 30 years of suppression by this party and president ruling the country... another fear that they will spread their ideology all over Arabia..

I'm no Muslim, and I'm smart enough to know when my country has had war declared against it!

The next war of religion is shaping up to take place within our country, pitting American against America.

This summer, when some 120 nations voted to establish a permanent international criminal court for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. found itself one of only seven countries, including such bedfellows as China and the Sudan, to vote against the new court.

We want the country to remain as it was and for liberals to stop warring against our Christian heritage and taking away what once was.

«As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.»

In light of the human rights standards — rights that have received almost unanimous acceptance from the UN member states — it is becoming obvious to the average person that planning a nuclear war against a neighboring country is a horrendous crime against all humanity.

«As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims], — and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.»