Sentences with phrase «war than those nations»

In many ways the democratic nations will be in greater danger after the war than those nations which have been more obviously guilty.

Not exact matches

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

After so many wars, I think it is more up to the Arab nations to try and be the good guys than make Israel bend over backwards to them.

more than 2000 years men from all nations to search and found faith, american atheist just kids try to make war with these long developed civilizations.

More than all the remnants of hatred lingering between nations, this terror of inevitable war, which sees no cure for warfare except in even greater terror, is responsible for poisoning the air we breathe.

A United Nations Peace Keeping Force to monitor a cease - fire is better than a civil war, but the members of that U.N. Force may have to shoot in self - defense.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

Wars were fought for the glory and power of nation states rather than for Christianity against the infidel, or for sectarian religious beliefs.

Hartmann, using an analogy, points out that a full description of a nation must include much more than its conflicts and wars.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.

More than 500,000 Iraqi children were malnourished even before the war, partly due to United Nations sanctions against the regime for its weapons programs.

John Mackay who was elected as chairman of the IMC at Whitby observed that it had been easier for the Christians of the warring nations to meet and confer with one another at the close of World War II, than it had been at the close of World War I.

When the majority are atheists, then you can decide, but when that day comes the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled and we will have war and rumors of war and famine and pestilence and we will become a backward, 3rd rate nation which will be over run by another people who are more deserving than us!

zhillia, I'm more and more convinced that the right wing in this nation seeks nothing less than a Balkanized Amurka (tm) as the pretext for Civil War Part II.

Some persons perhaps, crushed by the burden of medical expenses, had no objection to a cold - war garrison state as such, yet they could wonder about a nation that spent far more on weapons than on health coverage.

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

«With the nation facing its longest period of belt - tightening since the war, the Deputy Prime Minister said the «top 10 per cent» — around 3million earning more than # 50,500 — should brace themselves for new levies.

«New York City may be more hospitable to Russian businessmen than during the Cold War,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement, «but my office and the FBI remain vigilant to the illegal intelligence - gathering activities of other nations.»

This is supposedly based on standard «self defense» war doctrine which is recognized by United Nations, although specific legal issues are subject to much debating and frequently are more a matter of opinion than law.

In a speech last night, Mr Clarke said the Government was in danger of equipping the nation to «fight the last war» and the Cold War rather than the threats facing it in the 21st centuwar» and the Cold War rather than the threats facing it in the 21st centuWar rather than the threats facing it in the 21st century.

Defence secretary Des Browne said: «There are few greater responsibilities for a nation than to commit its troops to war.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

More than 2,000 Palestinians — nearly 500 of them children — have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since the latest Gaza war broke out earlier this month, the United Nations reported.

By comparison, during the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in 1863, roughly 150,000 soldiers fought (less than 0.5 % of the divided nation's population).

«After more than a decade of war, the toll faced by the nation's caregivers who aid veterans and military members is large and can be expected to grow in the decades ahead,» said Terri Tanielian, the study's co-leader and a senior social research analyst at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Pinker disagrees, asserting that many nonstate societies have suffered higher rates of violent deaths than states have, even during the latter nations» especially bloody world wars.

The movie focuses on Churchill's efforts to win a nation over and show the people that he's more than capable to win a war.

The Fire Nation is waging a war against the others for dominance and suppressing anyone who can bend any element other than fire.

The Korean War (1950 - 1953), the first major United Nations military action, claimed the lives of more than 50,000 Americans.

06, their lives started in poverty in communities that share more in common with war - torn developing nations than most people's notions...

Could it be because we spend more on wars and military than all other nations in the world combined?

In purely economic terms, reading related difficulties cost our nation more than the war on terrorism, crime, and drugs combined.»

However, those can still be enough to provide more than just a glimpse of how the various space program unfolded or what it was like for the highly competitive space programs between the two warring nations, the US and USSR, during the height of the Cold War.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

AHMP is believed to be the second - oldest pet cemetery in the nation, and is the final resting place for various animal celebrities, including stars of movies and television, pets of a U.S. president and heroes of foreign wars, as well as more than 50,000 beloved pets of families in Montgomery County and beyond.

The casualty rate of more than 64 % was higher than that of any other nation engaged and Australia's highest in any war.

A sort of tongue - in - cheek parody of the previous generations» console wars, Neptunia thrusts players into the less - than - subtly named land of Gameindustri where nations based on Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Sega battle it out for the hearts and minds of the public via their respective goddesses: girls who embody their nation's primary video game console.

Another — Hearts of Iron 4, in which the player controls a nation at war — has absorbed more than 100 hours over the last year.

The story isn't very original, two warring factions / nations with you as a leader one side, and the gameplay isn't massively different than what you'd expect.

This exhibition marks the centenary of the start of World War I — July 28, 1914 — which involved more than 40 nations before the conflict ended on November 11, 1918.

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

One of the largest visual arts centers in the nation, the building actually served as a torpedo factory in the years following World War I. Today it is home to more than 165 visual artists, 80 of whom have working studios on site.

A series of resource wars and famines combined with many nations condemned to permanent poverty is more likely than anything else to ruin the whole planet.

2007/04/17: CanWest: Darfur war, climate change linked A violent conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Darfur is one of the early signs of threats to global security prompted by climate change, a senior representative of the British government warned yesterday on the eve of a special United Nations debate.

South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan in July, and Luka Biong Deng, a senior member of South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement and executive director of KUSH, credited Wiley Rein this week for its pro bono services in helping the new nation obtain a much - needed exemption from U.S. sanctions targeting Sudan, which has endured more than 50 years of civil war.

One need look no further than the dramatic rise of the U.S. national - security state in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when President Bush embarked on the U.S. - led War on Terrorism, and challenged nations of the world, including Canada, to join the war or be considered unfriendly to the United States» interesWar on Terrorism, and challenged nations of the world, including Canada, to join the war or be considered unfriendly to the United States» intereswar or be considered unfriendly to the United States» interests.