Sentences with phrase «war with modern»

Would he have gone down a different path had he known the terrible cost of fighting a defensive war with modern weapons?

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The dispersal and re-emergence of Israel was not a self - fullfilling prophecy: the dispersal portion certainly was not, as the Romans did not conquer Israel with the intent to fulfill Bible prophecy; at the time of the prophecy, there would have been no reason to believe that there would be people who would try to Israel; the people who founded modern Israel were, at least in the main, non-religious and were not trying to fulfill the Bible's prediction; and finally, considering the almost continual obstacles (wars) faced by Israel since the day of its founding, sucess at restoring Israel was far from certain.

Let's take a quick look at three ways Israel's encounter with Canaan in the Old Testament — the paradigm for biblical holy war — is radically different from our modern conflicts today.

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

First, it provides Americans with, a primary document that portrays the inner psychological and moral landscape of this most «modern» of modern wars.

It is likely, I suggest, that these prudential criteria reflect the same uneasiness with modern war that gave rise to modern - war pacifism.

Throughout its modern history, just war has been premised on the concept that war is a conflict among states; yet in this «war» the primary conflict (at least initially) is with al - Qaeda, a nonstate actor.

The destructiveness of these recent wars has everything to do with the choices made by those who fight them and nothing to do with any alleged inherent destructiveness of modern weaponry.

More specific to the song's charges, there is no elite with war - loving tendencies who are the ones who really decide when modern democracies go to war.

When you consider how thrilling and deeply moving the Bible really is — with timeless scenes of love, passion, war, and betrayal — it is almost an accomplishment to make it seem as boring as most modern editions do.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

Nonetheless it is sobering to realize that biblical insights as an issue of current world stress are in imminent danger of being fought over, not with the arguments of scholars, but with all the horrible devices of modern war.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliWar, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deaWar, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with deawar once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

It is the denial of Christ's redemptive sacrifice, which we have replaced with the blood sacrifices of modern war.

But the American version of modernity is uniquely defined by two special errors: the illusion that modern freedom and Christian witness are reconciled in America and the belief that America's wars are redemptive, replacing the truly redemptive sacrifice of Christ with the blood sacrifices of soldiers who kill and die from one American generation to the next.

Because of the sectarian nature of Lebanese politics, modern Lebanese history is rife with coups, invasions, civil wars and government shutdowns.

Modern war makes all judgments of better or worse pointless in comparison with the primordial «to be or not to be» which determines whether there shall be anything at all to appraise.

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

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.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

Here is a tentative list of modern mass murderers and the estimated number of people killed by their orders (excluding armies they were formally at war with).

Grozny is also, architecturally, a modern city as it has been rebuilt after the wars with Russia in the 1990s, and the new signings of 2017 have shown their amazement of their new home on social media, posting photos and videos of the vibrant skyline and fancy nightlife which is on offer to the new stars of the city.

While we can forgive a man like Churchill, who weathered a world war with brandy glass in hand, and whose response to charges of overindulgance was as defiant as that towards the Third Reich - «I took more out of drink than it ever took out of me» - the modern politician must conform to a new set of expectations.

But as Rana Mitter shows in his illuminating and meticulously researched new book about the Sino - Japanese war, not only did Chinese history not end with the fall of Nanjing, but in many ways the war helped to create modern China.

After the war, this momentous event in the history of modern Greece — popularly known as the No Day — became a national holiday, celebrated annually with impressive military and student parades.

They examine whether there have been serious changes in the way the international community recognises and deals with the issue of rape in war and the role that gendered violence plays in modern conflicts.

In addition, Mr Blair will tomorrow set out his belief in global institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), although the spokesman noted he would explain how they «need to be updated from how they were designed immediately after world war II.to deal with modern challenges».

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

«The idea is that we would build what looks like an officers club in that space, and make it look like a Korean War - era (club) but with modern amenities,» Fisher said.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.

Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP for Spelthorne as been an active author with books such as Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World and War and Gold: A Five Hundred Year History of Empires, Adventure and Debt.

Interactive 3D holograms are a staple of science fiction — from Star Wars to Avatar — but the challenge for scientists trying to turn them into reality is developing holograms that are thin enough to work with modern electronics.

Falk and Hildebolt found that war deaths for both small - scale and more modern state societies escalate upward with increasing population sizes.

The modern story starts with post — World War I barnstormers, among them Clem Sohn, who in the 1930s leaped out of airplanes across the United States wearing a batwing jumpsuit designed to emulate the aerodynamics of bats and flying squirrels.

With a modern history of domestic scientific achievement dating back to the end of World War II, France has capitalized on its scientific assets with the adoption, in 2009, of a National Research and Innovation Strategy with a very specific and worthwhile goal: «To put back research and innovation at the heart of French society and economy.&raWith a modern history of domestic scientific achievement dating back to the end of World War II, France has capitalized on its scientific assets with the adoption, in 2009, of a National Research and Innovation Strategy with a very specific and worthwhile goal: «To put back research and innovation at the heart of French society and economy.&rawith the adoption, in 2009, of a National Research and Innovation Strategy with a very specific and worthwhile goal: «To put back research and innovation at the heart of French society and economy.&rawith a very specific and worthwhile goal: «To put back research and innovation at the heart of French society and economy.»

The paper concludes with a warning that, in light of this new way of modern war, the term «Europe» could cease to be relevant to international security unless a common European identity and political allegiance is properly established.

Yet many modern scholars view his final battle — Clontarf in 1014 — as mostly a civil war between Irish factions, with the Vikings playing only a small role.

The question of whether modern humans made love or war with our ancestors has swung back and forth over decades of often acrimonious debate.

Historians still argue about the extent to which the Civil War was the first «modern» war, but it is impossible to deny that the technology with which it was fought foretold the ways in which future wars would become bigger, bloodier and more devastatiWar was the first «modern» war, but it is impossible to deny that the technology with which it was fought foretold the ways in which future wars would become bigger, bloodier and more devastatiwar, but it is impossible to deny that the technology with which it was fought foretold the ways in which future wars would become bigger, bloodier and more devastating.

I was waging a terrible war of violence against my body by bombarding it with stress, toxic environments, lack of sleep, and the most terrible and dreadful toxic foods known to man, otherwise known as, the modern American diet and lifestyle.

Some historians consider the 1990s to be the beginning of our modern society with the end of the Cold War (amongst other things).

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

This series can't just stick with modern warfare and past wars every single year.

A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those alien invasion movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.

Official Synopsis: The Imitation Game is a nail - biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern - day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain's top - secret code - breaking center, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See is all over the place, scattering its ripostes hither and yon over the idea that modern popular criticism is a bankrupt profession in bed with the interests of a few very powerful movie distributors (Miramax's Weinstein brothers in particular) that have become our guardians of «independent» taste.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.