Sentences with phrase «war period as»

An interior monologue begins in the manner of a self counsel from one of the guests, it takes as a starting point the text A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf written in the same inter war period as How to Live in a Flat's inspiration, reflecting on the material conditions underpinning gender relations then and now.

With the American West of the post-Civil War period as the backdrop, the book delves into the displacement of Native Americans by a host of government edicts.

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«This period now affecting our relations will be a long one,» Interfax reported Lavrov as saying Monday, putting the blame for the deterioration of relations squarely on the U.S.'s refusal to accept the rise of other powers after two decades of the post-Cold War «Washington Consensus».

The period from 1914 to 1945 sees the spikes in the federal shares as a result of the war with a return to the prewar balance during the 1920s and early 1930s.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

«Their kidnapping took place», continued the BBC report, «during a period of massive state repression of left - wing activists, union leaders and social activists which became known as the «Dirty War».

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

So, for example, when the declinist argues that the United Slates» share of world exports has dropped from 27 percent to 20 percent, the anti-declinists counter that America's percentage of world GNP is roughly the same as it has been throughout the post-World War II period (approximately 24 percent).

Even if one limits one's attention to the period since World War II, one confronts a whole library of books and articles devoted to the discussion between West and East, including the output of numerous conferences, colloquia, official and unofficial commissions (such as those of the Vatican and the World Council of Churches).

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

Even as our nation in the period preceding the present war had great power and influence within the world, so church members had great influence within the nation.

During this period of simmering civil war there were outside wars as well.

were at least as subtle, coherent and devoutly held as anything homegrown, and those who did not learn from World War II and the decolonial period not to identify cultural - linguistic traditions with Christianity, are learning from contemporary cross-cultural exposures that many things thought to be unique are in fact quite common.

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

This is the period in which the Olympian gods and such myths as those associated with the Trojan War were taken seriously, provided the major material for sculptors and poets, and profoundly influenced the vision of reality.

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptioWar could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptiowar under this Videos silly assumptions.

The president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freedom.

The existentialist mood of the post-World War II period predisposed these schools to see the problem as one of making the faith relevant to the individual student's needs.

If nuclear / RCB war, population / hunger, and pollution are taken as three major traps that must be avoided during the transitional period, it can be argued upon good authority that for none of these dangers is there a strictly technological solution.

What troubles me most as I look back on that period is our willingness then to do anything short of war to destroy the Chinese revolution, even though the result would have been to throw China back into the massive poverty, corruption and partial anarchy that preceded the revolution.

So a correction was found as the «70s dawned, the angry voices of the alienated minorities diminished, the bloody Vietnam war ended, the cities grew less hysterical, and the nation discovered that its institutions were strong enough to withstand the enormous challenge of corruption in the highest office of this land, finally expelling that corruption in a violent period of national purging.

There is an old tradition of antiradical violence in America and there have been periods, such as the First World War and its immediate aftermath and the McCarthy period after the Second World War, when radical thought of all varieties has been severely persecuted.

Because of their monopoly of the new machines, however, no war attendant upon the European conquests of the period was so prolonged or so exhausting for either victor or vanquished as had been many others.

As in another period of crisis General Robert E. Lee said, «This is no time for marriage,» (Quoted by Mrs Roger A. Pryor: Reminiscences of Peace and War, p. 327.)

By all the measures of conventional religiosity the early «50s had been a period of - religious revival, but the revival of the «50s proved to be as artificial as the Cold War atmosphere that may have fostered it.

The American and Canadian churches entered the period following World War I devoted as they had always sought to be to the service of God and to the continuation of the patterns of western Christendom. . .

As for his argument, Carter writes learnedly about the most notable crises of American republicanism, especially the Constitutional period, the Civil War, and the New Deal.

Even as history continues to unfold» and explode» in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the most consequential international political event of the post-Cold War period.

Upon arriving in Rome, Mr. Taylor was regarded as the US Ambassador and served for ten years, covering the World War II period.

With volume sales falling 3.6 % over the period, the steeper value decline has been driven by price cuts as bread is used as a key weapon in the ongoing price war.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

Even team members were in the wars during the race, as a Ferrari and Williams mechanic bumped into each other in the pitlane during the red flag period.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.. While the North and South will clash daily in impressive battles, complete with period costumes and weaponry, the real stars of the spectacle will be the more than 300 re-enactors.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

As Russia emerged from the post-Cold War period and became more stable and affluent, the wealthier Russians began to mount challenges to Putin's rule.

They organised strikes, street protests in the 1910s and 1920s, they first gained power as a coalition member in 1924, and (after a couple of splits and a period in a national government during the war) gain power in 1945.

Just as Parliament has to make a decision about the options for a complete renovation of the old Palace and whether to move out during the period partially or completely, Caroline Shenton, formerly Parliamentary Archivist, has written Mr Barry's War Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 (OUP).

As of the close of the reporting period on October 15, Ryan had $ 521,656 in his campaign war chest.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

The exemption provides a basic property tax exemption, of either 10 or 15 percent of assessed value (as adopted by the municipality) to veterans who served during the Cold War period.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently described, the Conservatives» plans for public spending from this year onwards would make it the «tightest five - year period since (at least) World War Two» whilst Liberal Democrat and Labour plans would see the «tightest four - year period since April 1976».

Under current law, only veterans who served during certain specified periods of war are eligible for this benefit, excluding a substantial number of veterans, such as those who have served recently in Afghanistan.

I doubt Brown will last much longer, I think once the conference is over Brown will know it's time to go, I doubt he would want to stay to the end and be blamed for putting labour out of power for maybe twenty odd years, Thatcher was in power for a long period as people did not trust Labour after two wars, I doubt I'd ever trust Labour again in my life time.

From 1918 until 1989, with the exception of the period of theSecond World War, the main priority of MI6 was the Soviet Union and the Comintern, with the Soviet intelligence and security services seeing MI6 as its main rival certainly until the 1950s.

Throughout this period, although seen as a «Brownite», Ed Miliband was the only minister (other than Douglas Alexander, perhaps) who was trusted by the warring factions around Blair and Brown.

«Nigeria is passing through the most difficult period of our history, even worse than the civil war going by the kind of anxiety enveloping the country presently as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency, but that should not be used as a licence by any governor or anybody to go out of our constitutional provisions in coming up with a policy to tackle the problem.

It is worth noting however, that the period of dictatorships in East Asia, was during the Cold War when western allies were busy forming alliances as opposed to the situation now where they act as global watchdogs for human rights and respect for the rule of law.