Sentences with phrase «war effort seemed»

The Allied war effort seemed to him to be obscene, life imitating Guernica, chaos come again.

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This time the seeker is Blake, an Iraq war veteran who's spent his 20s meandering through life and who's now content to offer minimal effort in what seems to be a dead - end job in a bookstore franchise.

Had he survived the war, it seems likely that that cause of reconciliation would have been central to his efforts for a renewal of Christianity.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

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.

Then there is the current Vatican Ostpolitik: Russian Orthodox Church leaders have been prominent actors in Putin's war of propaganda and disinformation, yet the ecumenical efforts of the Holy See seem premised on the wish that these churchmen are not what they manifestly are — agents of Russian state power.

He then seemed to suggest that this and other Russian efforts were an act of war - a comment which carries greater repercussions than he appeared aware of.

Despite that identical, calculated timing, the movies seemed to add a credit for each of the director's two faces, The Adventures of Tintin intended as blockbuster fun and War Horse as the artistic effort worthy of merit.

In those moments of stillness, the film ultimately emerges as a reflection of the War in Iraq — another murky effort prompted out of what seemed to be reactionary revenge motives.

There seems to be an admirable willingness to engage with real - world politics too, with references dropped to the surveillance society, wars in the Middle East, and the price of security, while a reunion with an older version of a character from the first film provides probably the most moving moment in any Marvel effort to date.

Even though Powell Jobs stands squarely on the reform side of education's long - running civil war over how to make things work better for American students, the XQ effort seemed to represent a refreshing change of direction.

Seems to point out the arrogance of the whole South... that they could win a war and not have to put out any effort.

The Leningrad symphony became a rallying cry, not only for the demoralized citizens of the city but also for people the world over, who were moved to contribute to Russian war relief efforts thanks to the stirring symphony that seemed to capture both the terror of living under Hitler's siege and the triumph of a people determined to survive.

Interesting effort here by RTÉ who seem to be getting the hang of cross media productions following the success of their Judging Dev and Our War enterprises: Look Of The Irish

Treyarch's Noah Heller has said in the past that they're «happy that we put the war to bed» when talking about the company's World at War effort, and with the chatter about searches into Vietnam War, Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music for their next title, it seems safe to speculate that Treyarch too is moving war to bed» when talking about the company's World at War effort, and with the chatter about searches into Vietnam War, Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music for their next title, it seems safe to speculate that Treyarch too is moving War effort, and with the chatter about searches into Vietnam War, Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music for their next title, it seems safe to speculate that Treyarch too is moving War, Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music for their next title, it seems safe to speculate that Treyarch too is moving on.

Even Bioware's MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has struggled to maintain a consistent cast throughout its lifespan, though the more recent expansions seem to be making a greater effort in that regard.

We've swapped a centrally organized government effort to distort climate science for a kind of grassroots, guerilla war against it, driven by blogs and skeptic scientist amateurs who nourish a powerful sense of self - motivation, a generous helping of anger and outrage, and seem to smell blood in the water.