Sentences with phrase «war campaign against»

And we can be sure the king was looking for more money, because he had probably lost a lot of money is his disastrous war campaign against the Greeks in which he lost almost his whole army.

Not exact matches

This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

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.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

Most political watchers expected the Mr. Prentice to use the massive PC campaign war - chest to launch a massive negative advertising campaign against the NDP, but it has not materialized.

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.

The message seemed clear, and the media nodded in agreement while the Crusades were a Christian holy war against Islam, the war on terrorism is a secular campaign in defense of justice.

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race.

Of course, their terrorism pales in comparison to that of men like Abraham Lincoln who sanctioned open war against US citizens — Exhibit A, The Atlanta Campaign.

American evangelicals» annual campaign against the supposed «War on Christmas» began early this year, with the president promising the perpetually oppressed faithful that we would once again be a nation...

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

In India, Hindu extremists have attacked Christian communities (as well as Muslims); in Burma and Sri Lanka, Buddhist nationalists have launched aggressive anti-Christian campaigns; and Communism's ruthless war against followers of Christ» in Cuba, Vietnam, China, and North Korea» is well - known.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

Boko Haram continues to commit war crimes by wilfully destroying churches and pursing a relentless campaign of religious cleansing against Christian communities in southern Borno.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes Trial and the subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left.

With the specter of civil war looming, the new President, who had denounced the Dred Scott decision repeatedly in his senatorial campaign against Douglas in 1858 as well as in the presidential campaign, turned attention to it in his remarks to the nation.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

Basically, the idea of an NFL campaign against the USFL was initially floated as a cartoonishly explicit declaration of war.

Then I heard Blair speak in Parliament to campaign for a war against Iraq and I supported it.

Wilson is an attractive candidate to some Republicans because his personal wealth could fuel a competitive campaign against Cuomo and his war chest of more than $ 25 million.

President Theodore Roosevelt's campaign against «hyphenated Americans» during World War I and the perceived lack of objective information about Germany in US media stimulated this ethnic identity.

Ironically, this international military campaign is playing into al - Qaeda's hands in several ways: by targeting al - Qaeda's own domestic enemies; by employing sectarian rhetoric that plays up Sunni - Shi» ite fault lines previously insignificant in Yemen; by destroying Yemen's military hardware that had been used against al - Qaeda; and by enabling al - Qaeda to exploit the lawless war - torn environment to expand its influence and build alliances among southern and eastern tribes to combat the mutual Houthi foe.

The two major objections brought forward against the procurement of armed drones are that it (1) might make warfare «too easy» and thereby increase the likelihood of wars and (2) that these UAVs could be used for targeted killing campaigns as carried out by the CIA in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

The drum - beat of war in Syria grows louder by the day — but MPs must hold firm against another bombing campaign

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

Democrats and Republicans waged war — using tweets, Congressional memos and even a presidential TV appearance — over whether the FBI misused federal surveillance resources against President Trump's 2016 campaign.

The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.

We should prepare to campaign against a repeat of British involvement in the Iraq War.

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

They are lining - up to position the race against Eldridge as a campaign of personalities — Gibson, the local war hero from a working family vs. Eldridge, the multi-millionaire outsider trying to buy a Congressional seat.»

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos threatened to order a probe of Cuomo's $ 20 million campaign war chest — if the governor's anti-corruption panel investigation turns into a «witch hunt» against state lawmakers.

In her local borough of Camden, Berry has also campaigned against the Iraq war, genetically modified foods and air quality problems, and supported local services threatened by redevelopment projects.

Ms. Quinn, who already reached the maximum contribution limit for this year's Democratic primary, also asked her supporters to boost her campaign's war chest in order to fight back against these sorts of attacks.

He subsequently ran a brutal campaign against Labour MP Oona King, who supported the war, and won the Bethnal green and Bow seat for the new Respect party.

This seemingly concocted report is the latest in a series of orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Commission by shadowy forces that are obviously envious of the success of the EFCC, especially at a time, when the anti-graft agency enjoys the status of the shining light of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration's war against corruption.

Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos threatened to order a probe of Cuomo's own $ 20 million campaign war chest if the governor's anti-corruption panel investigation turns into a «witch hunt» against state lawmakers.

While your traducers would rather taint your image by making references to the alleged misappropriation of funds during your tenure as NSA, they tirelessly worked to suppress the apparent success stories of the war - against - terrorism campaign during your tenure.

The race has become something of a proxy war for the fight over the online rental site Airbnb, with the company funding advertising against Serino and an independent expenditure campaign backed by the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York running commercials critical of Gipson.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.

He's using part of his $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer to represent the office of the governor against the US Attorney's investigations.

Buhari, while faulting claims that he had been sparing those who sponsored his campaigns and members of his All Progressives Congress in his ongoing anti-corruption war, said he would come down hard on any of his backers that cases of corruption could be established against.

Abbott has a record of differing from some party policies, voting against the Iraq war, [7] opposing ID cards and campaigning against the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons.

A Twitter account for the Democratic governor's re-election campaign, @QuinnForIL, tweeted out an article last week that compared black voters supporting Quinn's Republican challenger, Bruce Rauner, to Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II against their own people in hopes of being spared the same fate.

Long faces tough odds against Schumer, whose campaign war chest has $ 24.2 million.

Murphy, who will likely run against Fulop for the North and Central Jersey vote in a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, is accusing him of using his mayoral campaign as a war chest for that race.

Rahall's campaign against Republican Evan Jenkins has been a long one, thanks to spring ad wars between House Majority PAC and Americans for Prosperity in this district.