Sentences with phrase «wars present their efforts»

Not exact matches

By comparison, Diana's efforts to stop the Great War provide a sense of hope not present in films like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman, while also taking the superhero genre out of an urban environment and contrasting Diana's supernatural powers against early 20th century firepower and chemical weapons.

After a moderately successful appearance at the 1936 Olympics and on track to participate in the 1940 Games in Tokyo, Zamperini ended up in the midst of the war effort (not to mention the games were eventually cancelled due to the war), briskly bringing the film back to its present.

In a more extreme example of alteration, Steve Lambert organized an effort to craft a mock edition of the NYT that presents the news as we wish it might be, circa 2009: the war in Iraq is over (thankfully now a reality), Condoleezza Rice holds a press conference to confess frankly that the Bush Administration knew all along that there were no WMDs; and all public universities are free.

Marking a century since Virginia - born President Woodrow Wilson brought the nation into World War I, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond (formerly the Virginia Historical Society) presents The Commonwealth and the Great War exhibition, commemorating the 100,000 Virginians who served, hundreds of nurses and homefront efforts, as well as the 3,700 men who did not make it back home.