Sentences with phrase «war experience as»

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«His supporters in eastern Serbia do not see him as a war criminal, they like him a lot,» a top party official told AFP, adding that Sainovic «is experienced and very useful to the party».

But it is precisely because I have experienced war up close that I am the strongest advocate for diplomacy — genuine diplomacy — as the most effective way to pursue our interests globally.

In an appearance on the BBC before the rally on Sunday, Stewart talked about his childhood as a «war baby» and how he experienced the world as «not good» before the U.K. joined the EU in 1973.

Stock market futures dropped after the news, a sign that the markets will experience volatility on Wednesday as investors see the odds of a trade war as increasingly likely.

As a result we experience from 2010 — 2040 the most devastating worst world war imaginable.

Anyone who experienced World War II as an adult is now nearly one hundred years old.

oh and except Chaos as the universes natural order, except that war is a natural part of the human experience.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

But Cage's kind of simplification is what Jose Ortega y Gasset was writing about between the world wars in Man and Crisis at a time when Europe as well as America was experiencing the events that turned out be prologue to the coming counterculture of the sixties.

This experience has made me as invincible as a cockroach after nuclear war... I'm still standing.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

In order to best experience this «Star Wars» in its original, Shakespeare - penned form, I have decided to forgo seeing any of the cinematic adaptions until I read the play aloud, as intended by its author.

In this account of his experience as a counselor to a rap group of veterans affiliated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Lifton has given us a remarkably penetrating and sensitive psychohistorical study of these young men's inner experience of the tenor and purposelessness of that wWar, Lifton has given us a remarkably penetrating and sensitive psychohistorical study of these young men's inner experience of the tenor and purposelessness of that warwar.

In Home from the War he investigates the themes of death, and rebirth in the context of a war that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purpoWar he investigates the themes of death, and rebirth in the context of a war that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purpowar that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purpose.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

Lakor, who's a partner of Christian children's charity World Vision, presented a Tedx Talk on Friday on her experience of war as a child as part of this year's Whitehall Women event at HMS President in London.

Yes, he was in the midst of his struggle to dedicate his life to the living God, in the passionate storm of his deepest love relationship, and in utter despair as he experienced Germany's ruin at the end of the First World War.

just as a comment on my own personal experience, the next religious conservative i meet who expresses remorse over the loss of sacred but iraqi life, civilian or military, in the iraq war will be the first.

In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days of the Civil War, we find a level of experience which does the seemingly impossible of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Traditional Christian reading may not primarily have used the Old Testament as an experience of what it means to live in a world of war and peace.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

Birzer shows that Kirk's formative experience was his service as a chemical - weapons expert during World War II.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

Deeply stamped by his experience as a prisoner of war, he returned to Germany after World War II to study theolowar, he returned to Germany after World War II to study theoloWar II to study theology.

Although my background includes graduation from West Point, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two years.

Yet ecological disasters, fearsome instruments of war, vast systems of classism, racism, and sexism all have impact upon our lives, and we experience ourselves as caught up in such systems with or without our consent.

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

As we continue marking the centenary of this conflict, it is useful to focus on the British Catholic experience of the war.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

Joshua Aren't we experiencing our own «dark ages» with the war against science and series of persecutions against gays, Muslims, atheists, and basically everyone who isn't conservative Christian here in the USA, all due to protestants serving as their own scriptural authority?

Because of their belief in this gospel of reconciliation and their experience of its power, Christians can never accept, as the only kind of existence open to nations, a state of perpetual tension leading to «inevitable» war.

As a matter of fact most of our most successful war - time Presidents had no prior military experience... and some of our worst Presidents had lots of it.

As the nation grew and we experienced the opening of the west, the pangs of the industrial revolution, the exploitation of natural resources, the advent of wars, the abolition of slavery, and the enslavement of urban minorities, the Christian church adopted the success criteria used by industry and finance.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

He too, an intense patriot, cared supremely for his nation's welfare but, as the nation broke up under the shock of war and exile, his experience of God became a profound, inner possession in the strength of which alone he carried on through tragic days.

My question is, «What do you say to a person who has experienced horrible evil from the hands of another person (such as: abuse, rape, war, etc.) when they find out you believe that his / her tormentor will be reconciled to God and not suffer eternal punishment?»

And the ruling in Griswold itself was not so much a radical break with the past as it was the culmination of a process that began with the nation's experience of World War II.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

The impact of social tragedy upon sensitive minds from 1914 on is well represented by Paul Tillich's testimony concerning his experience as a German chaplain in World War I.

As a Frenchman, I experienced a vicarious embarrassment about my country's role in the post-World War I creation of Czechoslovakia and, even worse, Yugoslavia.

The death of his mother when he was six and of his father when he was 16 pushed Merton into an intense experience of the vulnerability felt by so many between the wars, and led to a cosmic sense of loss and nearly to a breakdown, both physical and mental — a vulnerability he described as «living on the doorsill of the Apocalypse» (ibid.).

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According to his wife, Rose, after his experience as a prisoner of war, Roy could never get warm or endure farm work.

Food and grocery suppliers have experienced declining margins in recent years as the supermarket wars have heated up.

Founder, Will Turnage, who has a lifetime of experience in the spirits industry, found the recipe in his Grandfather's wartime diaries who served as a Commander in the Royal Navy during World War II and decided to put his life's savings into launching Hawthorn's.

Yemen is experiencing a rare moment of joy as the war - battered country celebrates its biggest football achievement ever.

As the Iraq War came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeaWar came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeawar that dragged on for eight years.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.