Sentences with phrase «war deaths take»

Adultery is rife in this novel, as are births where parentage is suspect; suicides and war deaths take their toll too.

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Still, it's worth taking this time to look at Thiel's rise to fame in the tech capital of the world — a saga that includes his effort to stop aging and death, his controversial thoughts about college, and his war with the media:

Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS - the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML - based apps - a final death throe in the mobile OS wars.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

Death will be welcome, if only our war cry penetrates receptive ears, if only another hand reaches out to take our weapons, if only other men rise up to intone the funeral chants as the machine guns crackle and new battle cries and songs of victory sound out.»

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

According to this view, God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen year old girls as spoils of war (Numbers).

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

It is the anguish of waiting, the agony of struggle; it is killing and being killed, maiming and being maimed; it is leave - taking, absence, fear and hope, joy and despair, devotion and hatred, escape and death; it is the exultation of victory; it is the bitterness of defeat; it is the incalculable aggregate of all the blood, sweat, and tears the war is costing the thousands who fight and the millions who suffer the war's desolation.

The war that took place in Congo spread to several other countries and was responsible for the deaths of 5 million people, many from starvation and disease...

His death is the nobly lost battle that is prelude to final victory in the war; when the resurrection comes and others take up the struggle for justice on Christ's behalf.

A rag - tag group of Apache warriors, led by an elderly man in his late seventies, took on the U.S. Army's Ninth Cavalry in revenge for the death of the great Apache war chief Victorio.

When the British invaded in 1824, and eventually took control (after three wars) in 1885, the king escaped to India, where he remained in exile until his death.

Gallo worked as a Daily News copyboy and fought with the Marines in World War II before taking the cartoonist position he held until his death.

In a cold war - era study with goats and the nerve agent Soman, death took up to 48 hours after exposure to the shaved skin.

I'm interested in the real war that took place and resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people.»

Taking an evolutionary perspective, Falk and Hildebolt compare annual deaths from intercommunity violence («war») for 11 chimpanzee communities, 24 human nonstates, and 19 and 22 countries that fought, respectively, in WWI and WWII.

Saturn's moon Mimas looks for all the world like the Death Star - the planet - destroying space station from the movie Star Wars - in this Cassini image taken in 2005.

Ley's role was complex, and his life took an intriguing and meandering path through many of the 20th century's key events: the rise of airborne technology after the first world war; rocketry's beginnings; the Nazis» ascent; the cold war; the popularisation of the idea of space travel; and, finally, as apotheosis, the first moon landing, which occurred mere weeks after his death.

The Magnificent Dead takes place in the 1870s in the small Texas town of Rosewood where local rancher Jared Hamilton and his men have declared war on the town, using fear and death to prevent a new railroad line from coming through.

Well, Death as a maiden would be a little too much of a stretch for even Marvel's cinematic outings, so Avengers: Infinity War takes a different tack.

Taking place just before the events of 1977's Star Wars, and focused on the team of Rebel Alliance grunts who stole the plans to the first Death Star, it features Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelshon, Forest Whitaker and Donnie Yen.

Directed by Gareth Edwards, Rogue One takes place prior to 1977's Star Wars and revolves around a gang of rebel spies who steal the Death Star plans, which ultimately are uploaded on R2 - D2.

Picking up shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War, which gave the character his big - screen debut, Black Panther finds Wakanda's crown prince, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman, with a purring accent), returning to take on the mantle after the death of his father.

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But alas, despite looking pretty comics - accurate at the beginning of Captain America: Civil War, Brock Rumlow sees a quick death in the form of killing himself via grenade, and taking out an entire floor of people with him — though Scarlet Witch had a little bit to do with that also.

War, Famine, and Pestilence take the bench as Death saddles up his pale horse for Darksiders II.

Lincoln manages to encompass many aspects of the president's last three months: his arguments with his unstable wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field); his determination to keep their eldest son, Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), out of uniform; his grief over the recent death of their 11 - year - old son, Willie, and the thousands of other sons taken by the war; his magnanimous friendships with the former political enemies who joined his cabinet; and of course his assassination (which Spielberg ingeniously represents with a scene from a children's play).

Starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon, it's an invigorating war action / drama that shows how modern soldiers had to relearn their craft in order to take the fight to an enemy with a literally medieval mindset, embracing rather than fearing death, while having to rely on new allies who were often more interested in fighting ancient tribal grudges.

The story takes place in between the events of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope and follows a group of Rebel fighters who go on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star.

The new trailer's still fairly light on plot, but it's clear that our protagonist, T'Challa (Boseman), is burdened with the responsibility of being Wakanda's new king — remember, his father died in Captain America: Civil War — and outside forces who want to capitalize on the instability his father's death provides and take over the country.

Meanwhile, Max has become the personal blood donor to Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a sickly War Boy with visions of a glorious death on the Fury Road, and when Joe unleashes his hordes to bring back his queens, Nux takes Max along for the ride, strapping him to the front of his vehicle to keep the restorative blood flowing, putting Max and Furiosa on a collision course that can only mean fireworks.

He also sees Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Kevin Kline) moving his way through the crowd, to take the reins of government while participating in Lincoln's death watch.

Taking its title from The Smiths» iconic 1987 album, which borrows the line from the 1945 Elizabeth Smart poem «By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept,» Trier's visceral, complex film explores the strained familial bonds of three men, which are torn asunder by the death of their matriarch, Isabelle (played by Isabelle Huppert), once a celebrated war photographer.

He is insistent that he will never take money from munitions or the dealers of war and death, and is in fact reliant on an exasperated patron: JP Morgan, nicely played by Matthew Macfadyen.

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).

The film takes place following the events of «Captain America: Civil War,» with no introduction to Peter's powers or the death of Uncle Ben.

Following the events of Civil War, where we were first introduced to T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), prince of the isolationist African country of Wakanda and the latest to take the ancestral mantle of the country's vibranium - coated protector, Black Panther sees T'Challa take his birthright as king after the death of his father T'Chaka (John Kani).

Gen 8: Let's take a look at different approaches between Sony and Microsoft - Sony's approach clearly include a second half of this gen of absolute value, with titles on their ways such as God of War, Detroit: Become Human, SpiderMan, Concrete Genie, Days Gone, Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part II.

Enchanted suits of armor marching to war, Voldemort's Death Eaters swooping about like puffs of black smoke, magical flames that take the form of gigantic dragons, wizards firing killing curses left and right — not to mention, multiple deaths, dark secrets revealed, and even some romance for those left standing.

It describes key events of the 1970s (the U.S. regulatory war over airbags, occupant protection outside the United states, the advent of automatic seat belts); discusses what happened in the 1980s (the need for both seat belts and airbags, the continuation of the air bag war, U.S. seat belt use laws, how the marketplace took over) and presents concerns during the 1990s (airbag - induced deaths, and the convergence of the safety world).

Death was decidedly overworked during the war, but he informs the reader that he saw young Liesel Meminger three times in those years before he finally took her much later.

Even WITH Jobs, Android was going to take Apple down (in spite of Jobs» declaration of «thermonuclear war on Android»); no, without Jobs, Apple is dying a slow but sure and unavoidable death.

The grandfather of the novel takes center stage as he relates a series of grand adventures, from World War II to his romance of his wife to his life after her death.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the deWar wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dewar veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

Jacob is more suited for gang wars, a brawler who takes less damage and, with all skills unlocked, can bring enemies to near - death states quicker.

I'm not one to respond back to comments but to say Horizon Zero Dawn didn't earn all those awards in my eyes they deserved more they delivered on every aspect of the game, come on the game was so good and unique that it caught the eye of the great Hideo Kojima let's say this again the Great Hideo Kojima and now he's teamed up and working with gorilla games on his Death Stranding project after that I need say anymore but one thing when it comes to all time classics I put this game in my top 3 story mode games of all time and this game ain't even called a classic yet but you'll see in due time this game stands up to great games like God of War, The Last of Us and Uncharted just to name a few and if real hardcore gamers are out there they would agree with this statement, so in closing I don't think you really took the time to let this game absorb and immerse you in all its richness and fluidity of gameplay and character movement and mind you I didn't even add the beautiful Frozen Wilds Dlc which was breathtaking and masterfully done and crafted this game is original.

So while the gamer is taken through episodes IV to VI, you'll engage in some true Star Wars heroics that includes going head to head with the Death Star with an awesome trench scene and a truly spectacular Hoth battle as the rebels attempt to take on the Empire with their deadly AT - AT's.