Sentences with phrase «with iraq»

With our country engaged in a war against terrorism and looking at war with Iraq, it's useful to consider the impact of war on housing.

War with Iraq has prompted the National Retail Federation (NRF) to revise its 2003 forecast for GAFS sales (general merchandise stores, apparel stores, furniture and home furnishings stores, electronics and appliances...

«Most prospects in other countries, particularly commercial investors, aren't fazed by what's going on with Iraq and situations like that,» says Tobias Kaiser, CIPS, broker - owner of Kaiser Associates Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a commercial and residential brokerage with foreign clientele.

In addition, a confluence of so - called «event risks» — including corporate fraud and impending war with Iraq — worsened an already tight lending climate while putting corporate liquidity under additional pressure, according to Fitch.

As to Security Council authority, Chilcot has surely examined the tangled history of Security Council involvement with Iraq since Saddam Hussein launched his own invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

On March 17, 2003, the United States was on the brink of war with Iraq, using as an excuse the ominous specter of weapons of mass destruction that even the government would later admit did not exist.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Howard protected the public as a military police officer in the United States Army, serving honorably during America's first major engagement with Iraq — Operation Desert Storm.

Through lively discussions about Hubert Humboldt and Daisy Miller, Nafisi and her students explore the notions of personal freedom and public constraint — all during a period of constant war against, including suspected, sympathisers of Western imperialism, as well as the eight - year war with Iraq.

Drezner narrows the gap between us a bit, saying that most members of the FPC are more skeptical about the effectiveness of military force than they used to be (though of course, plenty of members in good standing are pushing for a war with Iran that's even more certain to fail than the war with Iraq), and saying

I said, «Are we still going to war with Iraq?»

or about the USA going to war with Iraq because of oil.

Six years later the price is at $ 127 a barrel with Iraq producing no more today than it did then and much of it being diverted by smugglers and corrupt leaders.

Iraq China has plenty of trade with Iraq — 500,000 barrels of oil a day, for example, in the next year.

In retrospect, I think the biggest issue with Iraq is that it was partially motivated by a desire for revenge and even more widely perceived as such among Muslims, even moderate ones.

Even though United States oil imports from Nigeria have been dropping, the country still vies with Iraq for fifth place on the Energy Department's top - ten list of importers.

Deal with Iraq?

It's the same argument for going to War with Iraq based on WMDs.

An extensive array of books and comics are available to read, presented in collaboration with the Iraq National Library and Archive.

In particular it illuminates how each of these six artists has participated in international art discourses, merging global awareness with local traditions over a 55 - year span that was punctuated by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent eight - year war with Iraq.

The two volumes of her comic book Persepolis tell her story of growing up in Iran during the revolution that deposed the shah, the subsequent war with Iraq, her exile in Austria during her high - school years, and her return to her homeland.

I was living in Iran and the war with Iraq started when I was four years old.

Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's youth in Iran in the 1970s and 80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq.

Being as you're in Iran (and not Iraq, as I incorrectly read earlier), disregard all that stuff about the Kindle, etc. and anything to do specifically with Iraq.

ALONG THE TWO - LANE HIGHWAY from Syria's capital city of Damascus, where it approaches the border with Iraq, anti-aircraft batteries scanned the dome of noonday sky.

Of course the news has been saturated with the Iraq war.

She wondered how the city could have changed with the war with Iraq dragging on into its third year.

Meanwhile, a photographer with The Iraq National Journal newspaper has been kidnapped.

In this graphic novel, Satrapi relates her life as the daughter of radical Marxists in Iran during the revolution and subsequent war with Iraq.

Already on tenterhooks over the prospect of war with Iraq and possible terrorist attacks, U.S. energy markets spiked sharply Friday after a fuel barge exploded at an ExxonMobil Corp. storage facility near Manhattan.

Four of the cars will be built for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in collaboration with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

Directed by documentarian Gabriela Cowperthwaite («Blackfish») the movie confines itself to the facts of Megan's story and smartly doesn't tackle any social or political issues like women in the military and the reasons for going to war with Iraq.

Forget that America went to war with Iraq under false pretenses concerning non-existent «weapons of mass destruction,» or that the Big Oil interests that pushed for Bush Junior's invasion of Iraq led Americans to believe that the Iraq War was directly linked to avenging the perpetrators of 9/11.

It's two things at once: a warm look at male friendship and also a more expansive statement about America coming to terms with the Iraq war and the subsequent capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.

MG: And you had support from the Moroccan government to film despite the fact that it had to do with the Iraq War?

In what way did you fight for your country when president was economical with the truth pushing America into the war with Iraq?

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated adaptation of Satrapi's graphic - novel autobiography about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran's war with Iraq, episodic stories give Western readers and many others a glimpse into a fascinating world during a tumultuous era, and the author's illustrations express the caricatured, exaggerated impressions of a young child.

(Hopefully, this does not happen with Iraq.)

Von Trier's parallels with Iraq are not impossible to find; this Alabama is no more fictional than the pre-war Iraq depicted by the neocon advocates of war.

In Kuwait recently I saw a highway, leading to nowhere but the (not terribly busy) border with Iraq, lined with powerful lights.

DU was used for the first time in battle during the 1991 Gulf conflict with Iraq.

The DG affair tells the Conservative party one thing: It is OK for a future Conservative Home Secretary to order the investigation of the entire Cabinet at the time of the decision to got to war with Iraq and Campbell, confiscation all their papers, and potential arrest and detention under anti-terrorsit powers for up to 28 days on a potential charge of conspiracy to kill unspecified Iraqis.

It happened with the Iraq War.

For him, it all started with the Iraq War and former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul.

Mr Brown said last week that Tony Blair would play a key role in Labour's election campaign — despite fresh criticism of the former prime minister for sending British troops to war with Iraq in 2003, sparked by his testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry.

Britain should not have gone to war with Iraq, Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls has admitted

He feared the «new world order we were trying to create would be put at risk» if the international community did not act together to deal with Iraq.

The U.S. can not «impose a solution where we leave a vacuum there, because that causes chaos,» such as what happened with Iraq, he said.

There is widespread dissatisfaction with Iraq's progress since 2003 among Britons, the survey suggests.

But the most severe blow to the post was the revelation that, after considerable government effort to keep it a secret, Lord Goldsmith had changed his legal advice to the government about the legality of the impending war with Iraq.

Now in Obama's Wars: The Inside Story (Simon & Schuster, # 20.00) he looks at how Obama has dealt with Iraq and Afghanistan.