Sentences with phrase «wars fought over»

Oil and gas are too geographically concentrated, which leads to despotic «rentier» governments in the oil - and - gas producing lands, as well as wars fought over the resources.

Devastating famines and brutal wars fought over dwindling resources?

«If it had a script the only line would be: Illustrate the obvious ties between the car industry and wars fought over oil,» Meckseper told Interview magazine.

The Bible has had wars fought over it because people feel very passionately about it.

Research studies have shown that many scientists are now trending towards believing in at least some form of divinity however; I think it's largely that we're only now letting science get the oppression it experienced over some of the religious wars fought over political reasons with little to do with actual beliefs or study.

There have been plenty of wars fought over a wide range of reasons, not all wars are over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and accept the fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some time.

«I look at wars fought over access to resources.

Other practitioners of the pop - expert model include Canadian academic Thomas Homer - Dixon, who predicted the world was about to be wracked by cross-border wars fought over basic resources such as water.

Lincoln was the nation's greatest commander in chief in a great war fought over the most important questions of constitutional meaning.

«When was the last war we fought over Christianity?»

Not exact matches

That can be difficult to address, as anyone who has fought a war over the thermostat can attest, but sometimes it's as simple as opening the windows.

A border war with China was fought over the territory in 1962 and skirmishes continue today.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.

Reuters had a good story over the weekend that summed up what's going on, with a specific look at how Apple is fighting a particularly effective patent war against Google.

«Most people that were in their 40s and 50s fought in [the Iran - Iraq War in the»80s] and really hated Iran and were very concerned that Iran was now going to take over Iraq, basically.»

From the founding of New France, to the fight for Canada in the War of 1812; from the visionary achievement of Confederation, to our victory at Vimy Ridge, Canadians have repeatedly triumphed over long odds to forge a great country, united and free.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Neither the less, these wars were not fought over religion.

most wars are fought over land rights.

The way I see it, US woud have had over 70 million more Americans suffering, kids that fought old mens war, more jails filled with criminals and a troubled society than we see today...

why wasn't he off at war (like a king is supposed to do when his armies are fighting), but instead not only checks Bathsheba out, but then calls for her to come over... if that's not «intentional» in your book, then what would be?

A day is coming when this war will finally be over, and we will stand before Jesus, our General, and He will hand out metals and rewards for how well we have stood and fought for Him.

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

Few Episcopalians are committed enough to go out and fight a war over Episcopalianism.

Nobody fights wars over principles of math, countries fight wars over what they think god wants.

What is remarkable is that, during a period in which the church persecuted Christian heretics in large numbers and Christian fought one another in terrible wars over theological differences, no scientists lost their lives for overturning the established worldview of Christendom.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

If you are warring and fighting with your brother, especially over doctrine, it is probably a good indication that you have misunderstood the truth of that doctrine.

Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

This economic debacle began over a decade ago and was made worse by the lack of regulation of the banks and lenders and by our involvement in wars we had no business fighting.

Most wars have been fought over resources and boundaries.

Here is one book that shows the bloody savagery that Christians used on each other as they fought with each other over whether or not Jesus was truly God: Jesus Wars.

Thus, tragically, the very sense of local community over which (in part) the war was fought, with its attendant opportunities for friendship and communication between white people and Negroes, foundered and perished.

What would the course of American history and the quality of our national life have been like over the past 110 years or so if the U.S. had not fought the Civil War?

More wars have been fought over religion than over anything else.

One of their documents contains elaborate directions for the organization of an army to fight against the «Sons of Darkness,» It moves largely in the realms of fantasy, but there is no reason to doubt that these sectaries did look forward to a final war of liberation ending with the triumph of the Jewish people over all their enemies.

The seventeenth century would surely count as the height of «religious certitude» in Europe: Wars were fought over religion ¯ or at least over the ecclesiastical form religion took in different national contexts.

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.

The Jews are willing to fight to drive others out of Jerusalem, the Christians endured dangerous pilgrimages not to worship, but to fight the Crusades to take the Holy Land for their faith, they tortured to «convert» infidels, and they fight amongst themselves (Protestant v. Catholics in N. Ireland, for instance); The Muslims declare «jihad» against their version of «infidels,» and they fight wars between Shia and Sunni over who should set the rules.

She wants to show me while my toddler and five - year - old are fighting over who gets to sit in the stroller and who gets to stand on the back of the stroller, which is a war of the purest possible attrition and principled fury, because each wants to be wherever the other currently happens to be.

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

By calling a truce on wars over «culture,» and start fighting to save relationships with neighbors, no matter what they believe.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

Just now, for example, many folk are so impatient over the failure of the ideal hopes which we associated with the fighting and winning of the war that on every side they are collapsing into cynicism.

Once elected, however, Nixon found himself with no mechanisms for fighting his drug war, because the federal government had little day - to - day jurisdiction over crime.