Sentences with phrase «war years he broke»

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When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the world heralded Victory in Europe Day — the Soviet Union would mark Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

When electric - car maker Tesla touched off a multistate bidding war for its Gigafactory battery plant last year, most of the attention focused on the tax breaks and other incentives states were offering.

Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human - interest features.

In 1673 the terrible Indian war, King Philip's War, broke out and raged for three yeawar, King Philip's War, broke out and raged for three yeaWar, broke out and raged for three years.

Moreover, since she had toured the continent frequently during the 15 years before war broke out, the knowledge that familiar haunts both at home and abroad were being devastated must have weighed on her mind.

After two hundred years of peace, war broke out again until all members of the true Church were destroyed.

Procurators after Felix stayed in Judaea no more than two years before being recalled, and open war broke out in 66.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Not the Hale - Bopp Comet, not invaders from space, not Clinton as King Belshazzar redux, not wars or rumors of war, but instead the gracious and patient hand that reaches out to halt the ax, the merciful gesture woven into the fabric of life that stays all that would give up on the barren and the broken, the merciful voice that says, «Let's give this hopeless case one more year.

The moderates» break with the national Southern Baptist Convention came more than ten years ago after they were trounced in a Baptist «holy war» in the 1980s by politically savvy conservatives determined to enforce their conviction that the Bible is historically, scientifically and theologically inerrant.

The inaugural Varsity match was played in 1903, and the Light and Dark Blues have competed for the Varsity trophy every year since with the exception of breaks for both World Wars.

After a break of five games either side of the First World War, Billy's brother Elisha of Liverpool became Ireland's first choice keeper and remained between the sticks for 16 years.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Oxford University decided to remain open for the remainder of the academic year to allow returning students to finish their degrees.

«The male actors were talking about their war wounds — one broke his arm on the set, another hurt his leg — and I'm like, «I had a 10 - pound baby a few years ago,» which shut everyone up.»

That the Conservatives are ahead in framing the election year can be seen in how often ministers seem forced to contest Tory narratives — a debt crisis, the broken society, or the (ludicrous) idea that Labour has declared «class war».

Gabay — a 43 - year - old Harvard - educated lawyer who'd worked for Cuomo's Empire State Development Corporation — was walking along Bedford Avenue after the annual West Indian community celebration in the early morning hours of Sept. 7 when the firefight broke out between the warring Folk Nation and 8 - Trey Crips gangs, prosecutors say.

«I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from a war filled with shrapnels and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology,» said Schwarzenegger, who was born two years after the war ended.

After his stint as a teacher between 1939 and 1942, the young Samuel Odulana joined the Army in 1942 to fight on the war front three years after the Second World War has broken owar front three years after the Second World War has broken oWar has broken out.

Images of lighter - than - air technology from a century ago, two years before World War I broke out in Europe

A truce normally marked the Lunar New Year (Tet), but in 1968, the NLF broke the truce in order to launch the largest battle of the war: The Tet Offensive.

He's not as compelling as he was in this year's Infinity War, but he delivers plenty of dry humor and arm - breaking moments.

Bookended by war scenes that dramatize the fine line between civilized society and the brutality of war, it all comes together... bringing more power and poignancy to the two best scenes: as previously mentioned, Letts and Lerman go mano y mano in arguing the brilliance of Bertrand Russell, and their word battle highlights the age - old idealist vs. real world struggles; a mother - son scene towards the end is as heart - breaking as any we're likely to see on screen this year.

After the Australian master broke out to the global film community with 1975's atmospheric «Picnic at Hanging Rock,» followed by 1977's «The Last Wave,» he expanded his horizons with war epic «Gallipoli» and Indonesia - set «The Year of Living Dangerously,» starring an emerging Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver.

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.

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Peter Weir has broken his six year film dormancy by kicking off principal photography on his next project, World War II Siberian exile epic The Way Back.

Over the past forty - plus years, the British filmmaker has put together one of the most diverse and innovative filmographies you can imagine — from her early experimental work, to her fourth - wall - breaking classic of gender fluidity, Orlando (1992), to the minimalist dance - romance The Tango Lesson (1997), in which she played herself, to the Cold War coming - of - age drama Ginger & Rosa (2012).

Last year's Spielberg film, «War Horse,» pushed the Old Hollywood artifice to a breaking point, and it had me wondering if Spielberg needed a change - up in terms of his longtime collaborators.

In this slow - moving film, two young women would like nothing better to run into their father, missing for years when he was pulled away from his home in the Ottoman Empire during World War I when the Turks fought on the «wrong side» and drafted into the army to break rocks like members of a chain gang.

It's the tale of how Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling wrangled an officer's commission for his 17 - year - old son in World War One, despite the boy having all the vision skills of a mole with broken glasses.

Triple 9 is set for release in the UK on February 19th, 2016 and in the US on February 26th, 2016 and is directed by John Hillcoat (The Road) with a cast that includes Casey Affleck (Interstellar), Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Gal Gadot (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Civil War), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Clifton Collins Jr. (Pacific Rim) Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs).

Last year's Captain America: Civil War ended with the Avengers broken and split up.

The story is basically broken into two parts — the events leading up to Briony's accusation of Robbie, and the years following when the three are caught up in the events of World War II.

This latest project marks the end of a four year break from the screen for Solondz, and very little is known about it - including the title - save for it being «a dramatic comedy set against the backdrop of a war».

Triple 9 is set for release in the UK on February 19th, 2016 and in the US on February 26th, 2016 and is directed by John Hillcoat (The Road) with a cast that includes Casey Affleck (Interstellar), Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Gal Gadot (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Civil War), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), CliftonCollins Jr. (Pacific Rim) Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs).

If Marvel and a game developer wanted to go for broke, they could easily follow up on a comic thread that's been simmering in the background for a few years now: Wakanda's expedition to the stars seeded at the end of Secret Wars.

Perhaps Marchionne buys Merrill Lynch's annual «Car Wars» survey from June, which predicts Americans will purchase 20 million new vehicles in 2018 and thus break the sales record from calendar year 2000 by more than 2 million units.

Though the words belong to black, 17 - year - old Richie Perry, they merely echo the thoughts of all the characters in this gut - twisting Vietnam War novel that breaks uncharted ground in teenage fiction.

When Amazon opened its Kindle store earlier this year, a huge price war broke out amongst the major chains forcing ebook prices down to 50 % or lower than the retail price.

The threat of war was as regular as the harvest, alliances made in winter were broken by spring, and there were places where women bore another child by a different invading father every other year.

Last week, a 10 - year - old in one of the creative writing workshops I teach outlined the plot for his next story to me: A war breaks out between Glue and Tape to determine which is the best adhesive.

For the last 376 years, barring a break for the Second World War, this play takes over Oberammergau as over two thousand townspeople produce a heart - wrenching epic detailing the Passion of Christ and his final days.

It's been five years since the last main entry in the God of War franchise, PS3 release God of War: Ascension in 2013, and it feels like the series needed this break.

It was inevitable when the CS: GO Lotto story broke last year, but the issue finally made waves in the mainstream media this year thanks to the backlash to Star Wars Battlefront 2's abusive loot box mechanics.

Hopefully Intelligent Systems is making the next Advance Wars game right now I own and love 3 of the 4 (Dual Strike and Days of Ruin both came out during my dirt broke poor college years when I didn't buy video game stuff and when I was past that point I found Days of Ruin at Best Buy, but no Dual Strike)

There are nearly 50 announced games coming to Vita in the next year or two that I am excited to play, including: Axiom Verge, Bastion, Broken Age, Cosmic Star Heroine, Darkest Dungeon, Galak - Z, Geometry Wars 3, HellDivers, Hotline Miami 2, Hyper Light Drifter, Inner City Kids, Mercenary Kings, Mighty No. 9, Nuclear Throne, Not A Hero, OlliOlli2, Oreshika, Salt & Sanctuary, Severed, Shovel Knight, Super Time Force Ultra, The Banner Saga, Titan Souls, and Volume.

After waiting six long years, fans of the God of War series broke into riotous applause as Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta stepped into the frame.

Games you might have played a year ago now look absolutely stunning on Xbox One X. Free updates for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront II and Forza Motorsport 7 will help them look their absolute best when they arrive in the coming weeks and months, while Gears of War 4, Quantum Break and Super Lucky's Tale have already been treated to the visual upgrade.

Released free to download on PC earlier this year, The War Within brought record - breaking results.