Sentences with phrase «witness against war»
Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»
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Witness their efforts to preserve and enhance the earth and the earth's resources, to take action against oppression, to demand human rights, just treatment for all, and an end to war.»
The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»
Odette Sansom, one of the few female spies for the Allies in World War II, bore witness against Nazi war criminals at NurembeWar II, bore witness against Nazi war criminals at Nurembewar criminals at Nuremberg.
A third person shooter where the player takes full control of all four squad members, Conflict: Vietnam does not set out to depict the course of the war; instead we witness four men struggling for survival in the hostile Vietnam jungle against a ruthless terrain and seemingly ever - present «invisible» enemy.
Connoisseurs of such will find its top - shelf qualities to include a Witness - like star - cross'd pas de deux; dead wives and sons; surrogate wives and sons; surrogate father figures fighting, Footloose - like, against oppressive cultures; a Fisher King rescue from insanity; and enough war - movie boilerplate to choke a War Horwar - movie boilerplate to choke a War HorWar Horse.
From the very first scene witness the reality of war with disorientating and historical accuracy, set against a breath - taking and often harrowing backdrop.
WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.
This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Remembered primarily for his scorching Red Calvary stories, Babel (1894 - 1940), elusive and intriguing, was a brave, imaginative, and essential witness of the war against the Jews and the Soviet debacle.
In these works, there is a pull between our own shame and guilt at wanting to witness these images against our own reluctance to engage directly with the war we consume as images.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.