Sentences with phrase «war each year on»

«People with depression also are at higher risk for suicide, which accounts for more deaths than car accidents, natural disasters and war each year on average.

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Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

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The major indexes have since struggled to hold gains for the year amid worries about rising interest rates, a U.S. - China trade war, prohibitive regulation on technology giants and a peak in earnings growth.

Social scientists, psychiatrists, and conflict mediators around the globe have relied on this tool for years to help solve marital woes, foster better communication between psychologists and their patients, and even mediate international conflicts between warring parties.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

She had worked for one of the biggest companies in the country making $ 80 grand a year; she had worked on the Star Wars Missile Defense system.

SEOUL, April 27 (Reuters)- North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.

The war in Afghanistan, going on 17 years now, is the longest - running war in US history and costs American taxpayers about $ 3.1 billion a month.

SEOUL, April 27 - North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.

But next year could be an improvement, as the creativity of Hollywood will be on full display: a Stars Wars sequel, a James Bond sequel, a Jurassic Park sequel, and a Fast and Furious sequel are all slated for release.

When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the world heralded Victory in Europe Day — the Soviet Union would mark Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.

On Tuesday, reporting fourth quarter results, Verizon conceded that it would see no growth in wireless service revenue this year due to the increasingly fierce price wars roiling the market.

The newest game set in the «Star Wars» universe isn't a game based on last year's massively popular «The Force Awakens.»

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

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.

On my uncles farm 400 fully grown citrus trees were cut down by the «war vets» because he refused to hand over the years tobacco crop to them.

I think that as the war for talent intensifies here in the U.S. in the coming years due to demographics and market forces, you might need to rely on employment contracts to help attract and retain top talent.

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqWar Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!&raqwar cries with a resounding «No!»

Console wars have been going on for years, and they can get bloody when stakes are high.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

The United States has poured aid and personnel into Yemen in recent years as part of its war on Islamist militants.

Five years into the PlayStation 2's existence, it had three great «Grand Theft Auto» games, with «God of War 2» still on the horizon.

Russia has largely staked its credibility in the Middle East on saving Syrian President Bashar Assad's government from collapse during its bloody seven - year civil war.

Seven years on, their collective real debt is the highest recorded since the 1830s — even higher than the peaks reached to finance the first and second World Wars.

The U.S. military's 15 - year focus on counterinsurgency during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed other military powers — in particular China — to produce new equipment and modernize its forces at a rate that has Pentagon leaders concerned.

Airbus plans to assemble 40 - 50 of its single - aisle A-320 family every year beginning in 2018 from the plant, built on the site of a World War II bomber support base.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

The former subsidiary of Halliburton Co. has seen one of its largest sources of profits — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — wind down in recent years, and this development led the company to embark on a strategic review.

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

In the same year that Jacob Lewis established the Lewis Pottery on the edge of the Ohio River, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of St. Helena, ending the Napoleonic Wars.

About three years of civil war followed, after which the Bolsheviks came out on top and took over the country.

A few years later in 2009, the British science journal Nature featured Gourley's research on the mathematical structure of insurgencies in war - torn regions, like Iraq and Afghanistan, on its coveted cover.

Most of them came out within the year, like «Warcraft» and «Suicide Squad,» though there were two 2015 releases on the list: «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» which came in fourth place, and «The Revenant,» which was in tenth.

Bush's speech came just six weeks after the US invaded Iraq, but the war dragged on for years after, costing thousands of lives and billions in taxpayer money.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Airline shares fell sharply on Tuesday after United Airlines announced it would aggressively add seats to the market over the next three years, sparking worries of higher costs and a possible fare war.

The definitive example is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a 2,000 - year - old book on military strategy that still resonates with entrepreneurs.

I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.

About 7,500 light - years from Earth, two of our galaxy's most massive stars have engaged in a mysterious war that's raged off - and - on for millennia.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

My parents were born in Eritrea, when the country was on the cusp of what would become a 30 - year war for independence from Ethiopia.

Or, more specifically, it paid to publish a full - page letter from former HP employee and director Tom Perkins, who just last year compared the «demonization» of America's wealthiest individuals to Nazi Germany's war on Jews.

Last year's crackdown on social media was merely the opening salvo of the CCP's war on the information revolution.