Sentences with phrase «war efforts in»

Do we really need a game glorifying the allied war efforts in Afghanistan?

However, Isle Petit Anses salt deposits became a primary focal point of war efforts in the tug - of - war between the North and the South where salt was a vital commodity for civilian and military uses.

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.

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.

Episcopal Bishop Browning indicated that he was certain that the 80 percent polling support for the war effort in the U.S. amounted only to sentiment for the troops and not support for the policy.

The United States terrorized civilians as part of its war effort in Vietnam.

I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

One story tells of two college students who have decided to put their comfortable career track on hold in order to give their support to the war effort in Afghanistan, much to their political science professor's dismay.

The latest clip takes another derisive look at the American war effort in Afghanistan, with McMahon quickly discovering the absurdity of what's going down.

Adapted from Lissa Evans's 2009 novel «Their Finest Hour and a Half,» the movie follows a group of screenwriters tasked with creating propaganda for the British war effort in the midst of the London blitz.

He was rumored to be the famous «Jack King,» a super-spy during WWII who convinced Nazi sympathizers that he was secretly with the Gestapo, which enabled him to obtain invaluable information about those working against the war effort in Britain.

The Rothschilds changed the game by financing the British war effort in the Napoleanic Wars, and the rest as they say, is history.

In 2016, Lum completed a memorial to the Canadian war effort in Italy during World War II [42] Lum's memorial centered on the Battle of Ortona where Canadian troops were victorious but suffered heavy losses.

Ahead of President Obama's December review of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)- sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Af...

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Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

Some have claimed that VC firms are building their war chests in effort to compete (or at least keep up) with SoftBank's mammoth $ 100 billion Vision Fund.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

He added that «much remains to be done» in U.S. foreign policy, pointing to efforts to end a civil war in Syria and ensure stability in Iraq.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

While the cabinet members felt at the time that they were seriously involved in the war effort, the unnamed former minister, in retrospect, said he realized how little power and influence they actually wielded.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

He might begin with the U.S. - allied war efforts against ISIS, which has had its difficulties since Obama first authorized stepped up airstrikes and some ground action in mid-204.

For the US, bombing would focus on daytime raids against strategically valuable targets — factories, ports, military bases, and other infrastructure involved in the war effort.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

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:

With President Trump and the mayor of San Juan in a war of words this weekend over the relief efforts in hurricane - battered Puerto Rico and a stream of harrowing images coming out of the island and its neighbors in the Caribbean, it's easy to feel gloomy about the response to the disaster.

Donovan called Walter C. Langer, a psychoanalyst helping with the war effort, in for a meeting, and asked: «What do you make of Hitler?

«But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The country's foreign minister said earlier this month, in response to Trump's decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs, that China would have a «justified and necessary response» to any efforts to incite a trade war.

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

It also ruins nascent diplomatic efforts, raises fears of war or a pre-emptive U.S. strike and casts a deeper shadow over the security of the Winter Olympics early next year in South Korea.

Moreover, they insisted, the failure to extend the vote to women might hinder their participation in the war effort — which was direly needed.

And this war, in particular, has relied heavily on the efforts of private - sector contractors.

The war effort has sometimes faded from US public attention, even though the US has invested about $ 120 billion in reconstructing Afghanistan since 2002.

With the reinvigorated effort, the Air Force — already facing its own strains — may also see expanded involvement in America's longest war.

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.

Though he faces an uphill battle — he's a pro-business fiscal conservative who also supports gun control, abortion rights, and efforts to curb climate change — his personal war chest will come in handy.

said the meeting had historic significance because «for the first time since the multilateral trading rounds began after World War II, a trade expansion effort has ended in failure.»

Early on, Mr. Levitt also went to war with Congress, blocking a Republican effort in 1995 to eliminate the S.E.C.'s Investor Education Department.

He appears to be making an effort to smile as he meets me in Uber's main conference room, which is known as the War Room.

and Sen. Mike Lee (R - Utah), announced a joint effort to end the U.S. intervention in Yemen's civil war.

Thinking about the United States» big efforts in recent years to engage in Internet war, perhaps this could be an exploratory pre-dawn battle.»

Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase estimated that the war effort would cost $ 380 million, of which he proposed to levy $ 80 million in taxes and to borrow the remaining $ 300 million.

That in and of itself isn't necessarily unusual, but combined with an ongoing war of words among House Republicans with regards to Rosenstein, it points to an effort to delegitimize the deputy attorney general within the GOP and among Trump's supporters, an effort that Trump himself has engaged in on Twitter.

There have been concerted efforts in fundamentalist circles to become the dominant religious voice in our military as a means of ensuring their «victory» in a «culture war.»

Before the Civil War, the courts generally resisted the moral reformers» efforts to alter the interpretation of the Constitution in order to permit the seizure of immoral property.

Archbishop Sambi's personal credibility was important during the 2006 war in Lebanon and his efforts helped mobilize Lebanon's Maronite Catholics and their support of a ceasefire.