Sentences with phrase «war spending»

In tallying up the past spending, Bovard included $ 30 billion for the FBI, $ 70 billion for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) which oversees airport security, $ 200 billion for creation and operation of the Department of Homeland Security, $ 500 billion for NSA surveillance operations, and $ 3 trillion overall for war spending in the Middle East.

Source: House and Senate Budget Committees, Congressional Budget Office * Includes drawdowns of war spending and short - term emergencies that were not included in CBO's baseline.

Unlike The Avengers or Captain America: Civil War, Infinity War spends little time on heroes learning how to co-exist or clashing egos getting in the way of the bigger picture.

According to reports, Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War spent more than $ 182 million in Georgia.

Finally, the budget allocates war spending, or Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), at President Trump's request for FY 2018 ($ 77 billion).

(That would bring Star Wars spending since 1985 to a total of $ 80 billion.)

By August 1971, war spending in Vietnam and other foreign countries forced the United States to suspend gold convertibility of the dollar through sales via the London Gold Pool.

Infinity War spends the majority of its screen time developing Thanos's story to make him a more relatable character.

War spending would phase down until zeroing out completely in 2022 and beyond.

What destabilized this system was war spending.

After the war he spent much time lecturing in Europe and the United States.

Much of the war he spent poaching in the uniform of the Royal Artillery, his talents having been recognized in his early training days in Scotland by a perceptive commanding officer, who sent him on leave to Breconshire to collect his gaff, then relieved him of normal duties so that he could get to work on the Scottish salmon for the benefit of the Officers» Mess.

Hart's War spends its second act as a fairly conventional prison camp / courtroom intrigue complete with surprise witnesses, stunning reveals of new evidence, and heated soliloquies protesting innocence and corruption.

If a general running a war spent as much energy bashing the only soldiers he had, he would lose the war, even though he would say he was doing it for the good of the country.

And I bet most of them — not all, but most — who made it through the war spent a long time after trying to understand what they'd done.

«One of the things we are trying to emphasise in this show is that she was this huge international figure and even though after the war she spent most of her time in St Ives in Cornwall, her sculptures were going all over the world,» he said.

The best thing would be that all war spending be directed towards climate change, instead of spending it on troops in Iraq, in Afghanistan or the military bases in Latin America.