Sentences with phrase «winning cold war»

The AP program has evolved quite far from its roots — winning the cold war and alleviating the boredom of superbly educated students who had been exposed to virtually identical courses during their last year of prep school and their first year of college.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.

The space agency was inaugurated on 1 October 1958 amid fears that the Soviet Union was winning the Cold War in space.

Poland freed itself from Soviet rule through the resurgence of Christian civil society, and the heroism of its people was a crucial factor in the West's winning the Cold War.

President Reagan had declared it the goal of the United States to win the Cold War, not just accept it as our long - term fate, and our job was to report the realities on the ground as accurately as we could....

Sometimes it is even noted — by people concerned more with accuracy than etiquette — that America and the West won the Cold War.

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Yet the address also sounds a new theme by praising the moral strengths of Western democracy» especially Ronald Reagan's inspiring political leadership that enabled the West to win the Cold War, as well as the constitutional restraints on power that protect personal liberty.

Seventy years ago in 1946, Churchill proposed a new phase in this relationship — to win a Cold War that many had not even realised had started.

«Under the Conservatives we won the cold war!»

«And as an unapologetic supporter of our transatlantic alliance, she knew that with strength and resolve we could win the Cold War and extend freedom's promise.

The A Nation at Risk report warned in the starkest terms that if U.S. schools didn't shape up, the Germans and Japanese would beat our economic brains out, just as all the post-Sputnik Cassandras of the late 1950s and early 1960s warned that the Russians would win the cold war if the schools did not improve.

• Who won the cold war essay — There is always a winner during a conflict.

I like big issues and the arms race was the biggest game in town, until we won the cold war and it all went away.

Yes, I have often said that the West did not win the Cold War — the Soviets lost it when their economy collapsed.

I thought that the West won the Cold War using progressive income taxes, a welfare state, nanny - statism, and «jobs - killing» regulations on the financial market and on environmental degradation.

After all, Reagan lowered taxes substantially, dismantled much of the Welfare state, and won the Cold War.

We need to remember that the West won the Cold War, using a (highly distorted) version of «free market» capitalism.

Interesting, isn't it, that he won the Cold War by increasing debt and increasing spending as a % of revenue?

Reagan won the cold war without firing a shot, all on the strength of the price of oil.

The Unites States won the Cold War because it did not succumb to the temptations of central planning.

Joshua, McCarthyism had little to do with McCarthy until he joined a campaign that was already long in progress and used professional shunning, warnings of investigations, and other tactics to unearth Soviet agents and their fellow travelers — who were actually bent on helping the Soviets win the Cold War.

If they're hotter and we're colder, who won the Cold War?

Government needs to win the Cold War on privacy; its ability to command depends on it.

Not exact matches

Remembering the sacrifice of the soldiers who turned around a desperate battlefield situation and won during a cold and snowy period in late 1944 is a great way to remember the military veterans of World War II.

The U.S. hoped that showcasing popular American music would win them over as ideological allies in the Cold War.

Pete went on to serve in the Navy as an award - winning aviator and instructor pilot, honing his leadership and decision - making skills as commander of a large multi-engine aircraft and 12 - member crew during the height of Cold War tensions.

In the English - speaking world, however, the Cold War having been won, Aron's refusal to join the ranks of the apologists for Stalinism is not as exciting as it once was: thus do scholarly fates wax and wane.

But the horror stories you hear — where aid just helps a dictator build new palaces — mostly come from a time when aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people's lives.

My problem is the kneejerk hatred of American power which won two world wars and the cold war and the fact that we yes WE protected Europe for years and still without our military presence many of the countries of Europe (who by the way will not arm and participate) would be overrun first by the USSR and later by Islamofascists.

The election of Pope John Paul II and his triumphant visit to Poland in June 1979 accelerated Reagan's sense that the Soviet emperor had fewer clothes than the realists imagined and that the Cold War might actually be won, not simply managed.

Reagan's straightforward definition of an acceptable end to the Cold War — «We win, they lose» — would have earned him a thumping «F» in any conflict - resolution seminar.

Remember, the U.S. went through World War 2 (and won) and then again with the Cold War (stalemate), and each time propaganda came into the picture to try and change our views.

A British woman won Wimbledon, the Queen was celebrating 25 years on the throne but mainly, nominally, the West was still at (Cold) war with the East.

My own opinion is that secular v religious is the next great cold war — if religion wins then we are all really sooooo screwed...

We are to have hope that we will win the «cold war» or that the «cold war» will not break out into an atomic conflict.

Consider the winning policy of the Reagan administration during the Cold War, which overcame the most prominent collectivist alternative to American democracy.

Winning the third title in Soweto was particularly sweet as they were robbed of the chance to defend the title there in 1996 because a political cold war with South Africa led to Nigeria withdrawing.

Since the end of the Cold War, capitalism thinks it's won.

Originating in US Cold War nuclear strategy, this theory holds that the key to winning a strategic conflict is enjoying the ability to escalate over your opponent at every rung of the «escalation ladder».

All the Miochines are... it's been revolutionary for me and you've studied them much more than I have, I've looked at which supplements and in some cases which forms of things like cold thermogenesis are going to regulate inflammation because unlike aging as a war against inflammation so how do we win?

Cold War is glorious, sophisticated film - making, shadowed by the spirit of Pawilowski's Oscar - winning Ida.

Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski took best director for his follow - up to the Oscar - winning Ida, Cold War.

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Acting veteran and multiple Tony Award — winning thespian Mark Rylance pulled off somewhat of an upset in the supporting actor category, winning for Steven Spielberg's Cold War — era drama «Bridge of Spies» ahead of Sylvester Stallone's projected win for reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in «Creed.»

British star Mark Rylance won the best supporting Oscar for his role of KGB agent Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Cold War - set drama «Bridge of Spies».

Pawel Pawlikowski meanwhile won the best director honor for «Cold War».

Many of us already knew, going into Saturday night's show, that Pawel Pawlikowski's «Cold War,» Alice Rohrwacher's «Happy as Lazzaro,» Spike Lee's «BlacKkKlansman,» Nadine Labaki's «Capernaum» and Hirokazu Kore - eda's «Shoplifters» were certain to go home with awards, though which film would win what remained a mystery.

Guillermo del Toro's cold war - era fantasy «The Shape of Water» won for its score and Mr. del Toro's directing.