Sentences with phrase «world war experience»

Hong Kongs second world war experience, as it is researched and documented today.

Thomas Weber wrote a fascinating book on Hitler's First World War experiences and his soldiering in the List Regiment.

Not exact matches

This soldier, who had to keep his relationship hidden from those around him, was just one of the approximately two million German men killed in World War I. His suffering is not unlike what many others experienced.

In an appearance on the BBC before the rally on Sunday, Stewart talked about his childhood as a «war baby» and how he experienced the world as «not good» before the U.K. joined the EU in 1973.

In June, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne readied skeptical Britons for the deepest hack to public spending since the Second World War by painting an almost utopian picture of the Canadian experience.

China's neighbor and rival Japan experienced rapid economic growth both before and after World War II.

That makes it the second longest such streak since World War II, trailing only the period from 1990 to 1997 that went longer without experiencing a double digit loss.

Following World War II, the city experienced a dramatic population loss and today is has fewer than 30,000 residents.

As a result we experience from 2010 — 2040 the most devastating worst world war imaginable.

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

Anyone who experienced World War II as an adult is now nearly one hundred years old.

But Cage's kind of simplification is what Jose Ortega y Gasset was writing about between the world wars in Man and Crisis at a time when Europe as well as America was experiencing the events that turned out be prologue to the coming counterculture of the sixties.

There is a child (or he used to be a child) who remembered detailed experiences of being in World War II, in in the Pacific, and he could not have ever known some of those details.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

Lakor, who's a partner of Christian children's charity World Vision, presented a Tedx Talk on Friday on her experience of war as a child as part of this year's Whitehall Women event at HMS President in London.

Yes, he was in the midst of his struggle to dedicate his life to the living God, in the passionate storm of his deepest love relationship, and in utter despair as he experienced Germany's ruin at the end of the First World War.

Traditional Christian reading may not primarily have used the Old Testament as an experience of what it means to live in a world of war and peace.

Birzer shows that Kirk's formative experience was his service as a chemical - weapons expert during World War II.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

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What made Forman's demand possible in 1969 was an important redefinition of the idea of reparations that grew out of the experience of World War II and the discovery of the extermination of six million of Europe's Jews by the Nazis.

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

St Woolos Cathedral's website outlines the main areas of prayer: «Pray for good order and harmony for the city during the Summit, Pray for the Summit itself - to be positive and productive, Pray for peace and for wise government throughout the world, Pray for the nations, particularly those currently experiencing war and trouble.»

And the ruling in Griswold itself was not so much a radical break with the past as it was the culmination of a process that began with the nation's experience of World War II.

The countries in eastern Europe, having already suffered from German occupation, which came under Communist control after the Second World War, experienced the same hostility to religious life.

The impact of social tragedy upon sensitive minds from 1914 on is well represented by Paul Tillich's testimony concerning his experience as a German chaplain in World War I.

We read about the war in newspapers, but did not witness the ordeals of Europe in the forceful way that we now experience all the horrors of the world that are continuously.

The experience of France after World War II, and especially from 1959 to the present, is particularly instructive.

After the Second World War, pastors like Peter Marshall continued to inculcate a Victorian code and the family ideals associated with it; but the life of men and women in the 1950s bore little resemblance to the lives of Victorian men and women for whom the complementarity of the sexes was a part of daily life experience.

They were experienced in Interned living from their previous internment in World War I (which lasted until the late 1920s), and established a School and a Kindergarten, and established work routines to prevent depression in the camp.

Founder, Will Turnage, who has a lifetime of experience in the spirits industry, found the recipe in his Grandfather's wartime diaries who served as a Commander in the Royal Navy during World War II and decided to put his life's savings into launching Hawthorn's.

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

Parents the world over have experienced the ability munchkins have to turn a spotless house into a war zone in just ten seconds flat.

The study suggests that in the post Second World War era, fathers were more determined to cultivate much closer relationships with their children than they had experienced with their own fathers.

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Parties at War is a serious historical study of the Conservative, Liberal and Labour Parties during the Second World War posing the question whether their experiences in organisational terms varied to a greater or lesser extent.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

The danger for Labour is that economic growth is already evident in other countries; even Japan, which experienced the longest recession since the Second World War.

As we approach the centenary of the First World War, the first flurries in what will be an avalanche of books, covering political, military, social, financial and personal experiences, have slid into the shops.

After an opening statement on his own family's experience in dealing with his father's physical and emotional wounds from World War II combat and the broader shortfalls in government aid for veterans, de Blasio answered questions.

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Haunted by her parents» harrowing experiences in Nazi concentration camps in World War II, she was troubled as a child by images of piles of skeletons and barbed wire, and, in her words, «a floating sense of danger and incipient harm.»

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 2, 1915 In this issue of Scientific American from 1915, we published the second installment of a three - part first - hand account: «War Experiences of an Air Scout: Patrol of the Sky» by Frederick C.

«I feel the new GI Bill will offer more enhanced opportunities in the 21st century for many to pursue college education,» Latigo says, a conclusion he bases «on the experience of the original GI Bill after World War II that expanded opportunities for many, particularly in the technical disciplines.»

Valve technology took off in 1958 when engineer and Edwards founder Miles «Lowell» Edwards applied his experience designing hydraulic debarking methods for the lumber industry and a fuel - injection system for World War II aircraft to the medical arena.

My top marks go to an extract from the Dutch physicist Samuel Goudsmit's Aslos, in which he superbly and hilariously recorded his experiences as a member of the Second World War mission to determine how far the Germans had progressed in atomic weapons.

The impact of the Holocaust on European Jews was not confined to the physical and psychological insults and suffering that they experienced during World War II.