Sentences with phrase «war against the press»

As Trump wages daily war against the press, millennials are subscribing to legacy news publications in record numbers — and at a growth rate, data suggests, far outpacing any other age group.

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«We're not going to wage a war against Turkey... But we will seriously reconsider our agreements with the Turkish government,» he added, according to a translation provided by the state - owned Russian news agency Sputnik International and corroborated by the Associated Press.

Coca - Cola became a true leader in content marketing by waging war against traditional press releases and corporate content with its digital media platform, Coca - Cola Journey.

An instance of Richelieu's nice distinction between the secular and ecclesiastical is that, at the same time he was gathering armies to wage war against the pope, he wrote the pope humbly asking for a dispensation from reading his daily office because of the pressing duties of military command.

This is the president who late in the war pressed his munitions officers toward the creation of an ever more efficient repeating carbine to be used against rifle - carrying CS troops, and, more tellingly, the president who let loose Sherman on Georgia, Sheridan on the Shenandoah, and ratified the long contest and carnage of Grant's 1864 summer campaign.

A people who lack courage in the face of death, whether on neighborhood streets or in the hospital bed, will be hard pressed to resist the temptation to abandon the neighbor or to discard the just war discipline, say, by engaging in preventative strikes against an uncertain threat.

Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler, by Mark Riebling (Basic Books): It's scandalous that this deeply - researched study of Pius XII's involvement in plots to depose Adolf Hitler has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, but the reason why isn't hard to guess — Church of Spies confounds the «Hitler's Pope» rubbish that Catholic - bashers find useful.

-- was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive war against an evil enemy would be both necessary and moral.

was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive war against an evil enemy would be both necessary and moral.

William I. Robinson and Kent Norsworthy, David and Goliath: The US War against Nicaragua (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987), pp. 36 - 37.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity againsAgainst the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity againstagainst Jews.

1997 saw the outbreak of a «banana war» between the USA and the EU, when the USA pressed the WTO into ruling against the EU's privileged trade agreements with Caribbean banana producers, subjecting them to competition from US - based multinationals such as Chiquita.

Those pressing for an inquiry argue that the war may have been illegal under international law and that Tony Blair made a wholly inadequate case for war by overblowing the case against Saddam Hussein, based on dubious intelligence.

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

The themes were many and varied: the simmering heat of racial politics (Get Out, Detroit); a U.S. President's unconstitutional war against a free press (The Post), the rage that comes when you feel helpless to fight the power (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri); and the essential question of how to live in a world heading for global disaster (Dunkirk, Darkest Hour).

Quick Pitch: As a belligerent U.S. president seeks court action to stop the press from printing damning Vietnam War documents, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) must weigh truth - telling against threatened imprisonment and insolvency.

Hoult, who played the skeletal war boy Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road, has gotten very good at pretending to drive a car very fast while the camera gets tighter and tighter on his face; here, he expands his range a little by doing it with a cellphone pressed against his cheek.

Rather, Lions for Lambs includes characters presenting arguments for and against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as criticism of a press too eager to report what they're told rather than think for themselves, and an exploration of the political and social disinterest of «Generation Why?».

Thaddeus Kosciusko, who fought as a colonel in the Revolutionary War before leading Poland's 1794 uprising against imperial Russia, makes many an appearance in the Polish press, for example.

The foreign - language press supported America's role in World War II, even if the countries we fought against were the homelands of many immigrants; it steadily educated immigrant readers in American history, and through the parents also tried to educate the children.

Exactly two years ago, Success was riding a wave of overwhelmingly positive press coverage as Moskowitz waged war against de Blasio's administration.

Those 16,000 stores selling Kindle Fires are 16,000 soldiers fighting a war against the reality distortion of the tech press.

The press release gives some hints in the form of a letter from Grand Marshall William Mulcahy, Commander — Task Force 33, who says that all troops of Section 8, an elite military force sent in as the front runners in a war against a group called the «Arm of Orion,» will be well armed with weapons and vehicles.

At the bottom of the official press release introducing the gaming world to Machine Games» Wolfenstein: The New Order, publisher Bethesda Softworks clarified its position on the Nazi regime's attempted genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

A few hours later, Hawaii State representative Chris Lee announced via a press conference that the pineapple US state will pursue legal action against AAA games that behave in the way EA did, calling Battlefront II a «Star Wars - themed casino».

The use of the colored shape buttons helps out a lot compared to something like God of War 3 that has prompts, but makes them black against a single color — making it impossible to tell which button to press just based on the color.

Sony Press Conference — The Last Guardian — Shenmue 3 (exclusive to PS4 / PC)-- FFVII — First to PS4 (remake)-- Guerrilla Games: Horizon Zero Dawn (Hunters vs the Machines — action combat RPG)-- SFV — Exclusive to PS4, including the Beta on July 23 — No Man's Sky Gameplay — Media Molecule: Dreams — Destiny: The Taken King ($ 40) Destiny Legends for $ 60 — Morpheus — very lil mention of it (game called Riggs)-- Playstation Vue a la carte TV (now in SF and LA)-- PS Plus members get discounts — COD now first on PlayStation 4 — Disney Infinity 3.0 to include Twilight of the Republic (clone wars 1 - 3) and Rise Against the Empire (month later)-- Uncharted 4 — Vehicle play

Copies of American Artists against War, 1935 — 2010 (University of California Press, 2015) are available for purchase and signing at the end of event.

Professor Lubet's latest book is The «Colored Hero» of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which tells the stories of the African - American abolitionists who joined John Brown's attempt to free the slaves of Virginia.