Sentences with phrase «world war battle»

Turner prize - winning artist creates «human memorial» of first world war battle, sending silent soldiers into cities and towns

But no matter how many other weapons I consider, I always keep coming back to an antique Second World War battle rifle.

The story focuses on a secret world war battle that was never recorded in our history books.

Those in attendance were honouring the soldiers killed in the First World War battle, which raged from 1 July until 18 November in 1916, killing an estimated 1.3 million.

Not exact matches

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

Having taken the browser world by storm, fueled with its IPO war chest, it faced a bruising battle with Microsoft.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, when the German Ardennes Offensive threatened to swallow up a surrounded American division at Bastogne, Patton pushed his men through mud and snow and relieved Bastogne on Dec. 26, 1944.

The late George Carlin noted that what we called «shell shock» in World War I morphed into «battle fatigue» during the second World War, which became «operational exhaustion» in the Korean War, and then, since Vietnam, «post-traumatic stress disorder.»

The battle of Dunkirk occupies a strange space in the history of World War II.

He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II, a service that had him defusing land mines and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

Mogadishu is a battle - ravaged capital, the epicenter of the over two - decade civil war that scattered millions of Somalis across the world.

It's fascinating to see controversy stirred up over an old blog post by NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice in which he called World War I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqWar I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.&raqwar» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.»

Bookstores were crowded with volumes on the Civil War or World War II, but there was little on medieval battles fought in faraway lands.

There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in wars with its enemies — which means, of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to sacrifice their sons, this time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

It seems that that battle has already been fought, during World War I, when General Allenby drove the Ottoman Empire out of the Holy Land.

In World War II, as Hitler advanced across Europe in his quest for world domination, many of the battles the Nazi army fought could hardly be called batWorld War II, as Hitler advanced across Europe in his quest for world domination, many of the battles the Nazi army fought could hardly be called batworld domination, many of the battles the Nazi army fought could hardly be called battles.

It may thus be that Castro's battle fatigues, Reagan's World War II bomber jacket and cowboy boots, and the operatic uniforms favored by Latin American dictators tell us more about each man's political views than any number of speeches.

the gov «ts of this world are not solving the problems but losing the battles and the real war is about to begin.

The war between Islam and the civilized world is the final battle written of in the Bible.

OOO — SPIRITUAL BATTLE — spiritual warfare is the cosmic war of good versus evil: its battles are fought daily between God and Satan; between the Christian Church and the world system ruled by our spiritual enemy; and within every child of God, between the Holy Spirit and the lusts of the carnal flesh.

Or should we start the battle against evil in an all out world war?

Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Rutgers University Press, 388 pages, $ 37 Writing about the bloody Battle of the Bulge in World War II, James Jones contends that the true heart of the battle was not in the majBattle of the Bulge in World War II, James Jones contends that the true heart of the battle was not in the majbattle was not in the major....

Heritage Minister Michael Ellis said: «From the pioneering pilots of the First World War, to the heroism of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force has a proud and distinguished wartime history.

The RAF played a key role in the Second World War, including fighting the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain which prompted the tribute by Winston Churchill that «never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few».

Only a few examples can be given to illustrate the complex interweaving of consequences generated by new technologies.25 World War II was the first war in which there were more deaths from battle than from diseaWar II was the first war in which there were more deaths from battle than from diseawar in which there were more deaths from battle than from disease.

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

In Hal Lindsey's There's a New World Coming, in its updated edition, 12 pages are written on the different phases and battle plans of Armageddon, a rather long war.

In this and later books he prophesied the imminence of the battle of Armageddon, which would start in a war between Israel and the Arab peoples and end with the destruction of all the major cities before the Advent of Christ and the coming of a new world.

It was a battle so fierce and horrifying it shocked even the battled - tested veterans of a country in its fourth year of world war.

Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.

Maybe he was returning the kindness that was bestowed on him during World War II, when he and two other members of the Navy were plucked out of the ocean after a losing battle, his son said.

Mark P. Naughton Sr., 81, of Arlington Heights, was a retired salesman who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and escaped a German prison camp during World War II.

In both world wars (yes I know there was only one in two parts) the Terriers served with extraordinary distinction and gained some of the most famous battle honours ever awarded.

We next see Stephen during the First World War in 1916 in the lead - up to the Battle of the Somme.

Most importantly, the attack convinced the Japanese high command that they had to destroy America's remaining aircraft carriers... leading directly to the Battle of Midway, a strategic disaster for the Japanese and a true turning point in World War II.

It was a vital base for the Royal Navy during the Battle of Trafalgar and during World War Two.

Even the U.S. was transformed, though no battles had been fought on its soil — after the war and the economic changes it wrought, the traditionally isolationist country was firmly established as a first - rate world power, hard as its politicians might try to retreat from that reality.

The FDNY this week honored the hundreds of city firefighters who served overseas in World War I and II — with a special remembrance for the 43 Bravest who gave the battle their all.

The great battles of World War Two are the ones which are remembered long into history.

As in the Imitation Game, the work at Bletchley was to deliver as much as any of the strategic battle losses and victories of World War Two.

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Lord Ninian Edward Crichton - Stuart - Lieutenant - colonel Crichton - Stuart was killed in the Battle of Loos in the First World War.

The centenary commemorations of World War One continue like the attritional battles of the period.

De Blasio paused at times when he recounted the absence of his own father, who lost a leg in World War II during the Battle of Okinawa, and returned a broken man who became an alcoholic and eventually split with his mother.

Living in the Town of Tonawanda is a veteran who was among those involved in one of World War II's most famous battles.

The press is viewing this as the biggest battle of the current Parliament (or, for those understaters at The Sun, since World War Two).

Since the «real» Nigerian military establishment, noted for its daring and dogged ability to take on all comers in any theatre of conflict; a military that went saw and conquered in places like Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Somalia and several other scenes of more frightening wars around the world, showed up for the final battle -LSB-...]