Sentences with phrase «war took hold of»

Still, as the civil war took hold of the country, not risking your life quickly became impossible.

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Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

They simply want to avoid having instability disrupt their trade and domestic production, and to avoid having to take a loss on their international reserves held (mainly from inertia stemming from World Wars I and II when the United States increased its share of the world's gold to 80 per cent by 1950).

According to Carroll, Constantine took the image of the cross and elevated it to a place never previously held in Christianity; worse, the emperor used it as an instrument of war, turning a religion of peace into a religion of violence.

They still hold the Golan and all of Jerusalem, they took the westbank, gaza and the sinai peninsula but have since returned those (which has never been done in recent memory, a country giving back conquered land for peace they could have attained through war).

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

I am not Native American, but as the typical white American, I can look back in my family tree and see the history of breastfeeding is much the same as it was for my white American friends: After World War II, formula really took hold as the «best» way to feed babies, so much that the medical community was recommending formula over breastfeeding.

A native of Kopyczynce, Poland, Mr. Ostapiuk was taken with his family to a Siberian labor camp as a child, where he was held until the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces during World War II.

So far, Cuomo has yet to hold any such press conference, and he continues (as a matter of course, beyond issues related to the presidential campaign) to shun the Sunday mornings shows, where Schumer regularly pushes the president's talking points, and where New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand recently took a turn attacking Republicans for their «war on women.»

After the second world war, it suffered its share of «marsh cowboys» and as a result the sporting rights held by the Crown Estates were taken over by the Nature Conservancy Council, now the CCW, when the area was designated as a National Nature Reserve in 1968.

The internal wrangling in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has taken a new twist as the warring factions of the party prepare to hold separate conventions on Saturday.

Mostly, the movie takes the new war dance of feminine righteousness and masculine power and holds it up to the light in a nearly mythological way, asking the question, «Can't they just get along?»

The storyline goes several different directions, from romance to a war story to a football rivalry, but none of them takes hold with enough verve to build up the big on - the - field climax to thrills.

This was not necessarily in an invasion: one tradition holds that as groups of Romano - British warred amongst themselves, a band of Saxons were invited over as mercenaries and took a liking to the place, setting up their own space and gradually expanding outwards.

At the story's core is Brad Pitt's sly take on one of the most polarizing war figures of a generation: successful, charismatic four - star General Stanley McChrystal, who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by a journalist's no - holds - barred exposé.

In this month's cover story, Back on Track: Leyland - Thomas No 1, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of Parry Thomas's first Leyland Eight racer, destroyed in a war - time air raid, and the recent re-creation built around a collection of original parts / Steve Welsh reports from this year's Goodwood Revival, the world's biggest historic motor racing event, with highlights including an all - Ferrari Lavant Cup and a tribute to Bruce McLaren / Inspired by a 1956 Motor Sport article, Justin Marozzi takes his Bristol 405 on a 1000 - mile round trip to the Lake District in his article Filton Fashion / We bring together another group of unrestored cars and lead them on a scenic tour round Rutland, Britain's smallest county, for The Oily Rag Run / In Woodrow: Stockport's sporting cyclecar, John Warburton samples the sole surviving example of this unusual light car built by a hat manufacturer in the north of England / Jörg Sierks visits two world - class concours for An Elegant Weekend, held on opposite sides of the English Channel / Edwardians to Ostend — Stefan Marjoram took his sketchbook and camera on an exciting Continental road trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sports

The broadcast, which will be held at 3:00 PM EST, will take viewers through the journey of how the Land Rover began as a utility model at the end of the Second World War and grew to become the world's favorite 4x4, with more than 7 million sold globally.

The muscle car wars took held the strings that controlled the news puppet, but was that enough to name one of them Coupe of the Year?

I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my father, or anything, just to hold your love again.

Khan, who holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans, shines light on the conflict's ethnic cleansing that took place through acts of genocide against Bosnian Muslims.

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Where things do get more interesting is in Shadow Wars, huge 32 vs 32 events that take place over large, open areas of the map where you must capture and hold objectives.

▼ Disc 1 1 Midori Green Nokumi (DS sound source version) 2 Iron Hawk Arranged Ends Festival (DS Sound Source Version) 3 Labyrinth V Ruinsia Sinjuk (DS sound source version) 4 Sleepless battlefield 5 Reaching out for our future (Song: Ito Kanako) 6 Labyrinth I Historic Nocturneum (PC - 8801 FM Version) 7 Battlefield Hatsujin (PC - 8801 FM Version) 8 Sakuranobashi Bridge (PC - 8801 FM Version) 9 Labyrinth V Amano Baza (PC - 8801 FM version) 10 Investigation of sword fighting echoing on the battlefield (PC - 8801FM version) 11 Contraindications No Forest 12 Blood Battle Betting Mission 13 Tarumizu Nozuki (PC - 8801 FM Version) 14 The end of the warring raging waves (PC - 8801 FM version) 15 Chernoba forest (PC - 8801 FM version) 16 Hold a sword and take pride in your heart (PC - 8801 FM version)

There have been a number of open world crime games, most notably Rockstar's own Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Gameloft's highly «inspired» Gangstar games released on the App Store but neither game holds a candle to the original GTA3 The level of immersion that's possible in the full 3D Liberty City, especially as you become familiar with the cast of characters you'll spend your time taking missions from, feels downright incredible.

Call of Duty WW2 met with great acclaim and held many charts for a long time, making it one of the more successful Call of Duty games in recent years and with rumors of the next Battlefield game also taking place in World War 2, it will be a good change of pace for the 2 renowned shooters to go back to their roots and bring back everyone's favorite era of warfare.

It's recommended that players new to the series should begin with «Skirting Shadows», as «Crimson Girls» contains several details that may spoil major points later in the plot: Players will take hold of five students from one of the shinobi - training academies, and guide them through training exercises and outside encounters with thugs, gangs and rival ninjas; during both schools» training, students from Hebijo Academy attack Hanzō in order to steal and acquire the power of the «Light Super-Secret Ninja Scroll», which results in a [reluctant] war between the rival schools.

As part of the larger «culture wars» of the mid-century, art critics began to take on greater influence than they'd ever held before.

With trade dwindling in Venice as the War of the Austrian Succession took hold, Canaletto decided to move to Britain, where he had a loyal clientele.

Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-communist witchhunts were under way, and Held decided to take off to what he saw as the fount of socialist realism, Mexico, to sit at the feet of the muralist David Siqueiros, who, apart from having taken part in the Spanish civil war, had made a number of fiery pronouncements (which would later be gathered into a book called Art And Revolution).

Similarly, Korean painters independently developed an abstract practice similar to the abstract expressionism that took hold in Post-war U.S., but reflecting a more Confucian approach to the sort of meaninglessness such work is thought to convey, following the Korean war.

In the process of knowing him, I began to sort things out and realized there was a generation of artists born after the end of World War II who could not be fairly held responsible for what took place before their birth and were very aware of their past and wanted to make amends.

Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II, when the United States took the lead in the formation of a vigorous new art known as abstract expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.

This trend strengthened further after World War II, as abstract expressionism took hold in New York - the new capital of world art.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

To be held Sept. 13 and 14 in Andover, Mass., the conference is to be named in honor of Justice Robert H. Jackson, who in 1945 took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court to serve as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

As Kant put it, «The spirit of commerce sooner or later takes hold of every people, and it can not exist side by side with war»».

«So arguably, if someone goes off the deep end and does something that damages your home or auto, this act - of - war exclusion can take hold,» DiMartino says.