Sentences with phrase «year waging war»

Living among the monsters of this age with whom I am now for the third year waging war, I am compelled occasionally to look up to you, Leo, most blessed father... Indeed, since you are occasionally regarded as the sole cause of my battles I can not help thinking of you... Your godless flatterers have compelled me to appeal from your See to a future council, despite the decrees of your predecessors Pius and Julius, who with a foolish tyranny forbade such an appeal.

For years he waged war against his neighbors, calling police, fire inspectors, the health department, and trying every bureaucratic means to shut the ministry down or push it out.

This is the year we waged war on sugar, and perhaps rightfully so.

Not exact matches

Rupert Murdoch vs. Google The Australian media mogul has been waging a war of words against Google all year, accusing the company's news service of theft.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

He also dismissed the possibility that China was seeking to wage a currency war, saying there was no need as exports were expected to pick up in the second half of the year.

«After years of military modernization, China shows the ability to wage war against Taiwan for the first time since the 1950s,» the GOP senators wrote in a letter.

«A trade war could lead to more than a year's worth of lost wage growth over the next decade,» says Kent Smetters, director of the Budget Model and a professor at the Wharton School of Business.

Throughout their whole three - year saga, the Straters have blamed one person — Julius Kivimaki — for waging a troll war against them.

For the last hundred years people thought the war was simply between employers and employees over workplace conditions, wage levels and benefits.

But among them, the Saudis and smaller Gulf states have more than enough cash stashed in reserves, as well as sovereign wealth funds — at least $ 3 - trillion in various funds they can tap — to wage this price war for years.

It's the latest round of the «he said, he said» war of words that the two men have waged over the past year.

The country had been waging a war on poverty for 40 years, he said, but the problem remained unsolved.

Lapomarda's own work, along with that of the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews, and the eminent Jewish historian Jeno Levai, Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy, is a good place to start for a fair and sympathetic account of the Catholic side of the unrelenting and often bitter struggle waged during the war years against both Nazi and Stalinist forms of atheistic secularism.

I have mixed feelings about the whole «War on Christmas» battle that gets waged every year around this time.

There was also the fact that there was 4 years where we waged war in Europe upon entry into WWII and did not bomb train tracks, camps or send liberation teams imemdiately to these camps even after for sure knowing what was happening.

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

One year later, he issued a remarkable document titled «National Security Strategy of the United States of America,» which declared the right of the U.S. to wage preemptive wars on rogue states.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliWar, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

As he meets Ahaz when Rezin and Pekah «came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it» (7:1) so he sees the Lord «in the year that King Uzziah died.»

Years later, when he was no longer president and I was on my way elsewhere, but US personnel were still waging the war, he dropped by my office, fell glumly into a chair, and said, «Davie, what are we going to do about this damned war?»

@b4bigbang, For the record, they also spend more on waging war all over the planet and has been in this perpetuate state of war for over 50 years non-stop.

GodFreeNow:» @b4bigbang, For the record, they also spend more on waging war all over the planet and has been in this perpetuate state of war for over 50 years non-stop.

From 1618 to 1648 what was known as the Thirty Years» War was waged.

Strict teetotallers waging a war against drunkenness and teaching in the Sunday school», wrote Francis years later.

lewa and Benz r out, griezmann, lukaku, auba and dybala r young and will have d cash pits of Europe chasing them... which means astronomical transfer fees / wage (we'll definitely lose in d bidding war)... huguain is a viable option but with a transfer fee of 55m and 200k wages for a 29 year old????... BONKERS!!!!! I don't know about u but I feel we shld do everytin legal / illegal to get vardy... by 2 - 3 years time, others strikers will have surfaced but for now there's a limited pool and d richest club r d sharks... i would like any of d young strikers but it doesn't mean we shld pay 40m more than their market value like its an auction!!!!

CaughtOffside understands that the Emirates Stadium side are looking to tie down Wenger to a new three year contract and will back the French manager with a significant transfer war - chest, which will be boosted by the sale of a number of under - performing players with a trimmed squad offering the club the ability to cut their wage bill to make room for new additions.

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

Your job over the next 10 years or so will be to help your child understand the difference between a real danger (accepting a ride from a stranger, or smoking cigarettes) and something that, disturbing though it may be, doesn't present an immediate or personal threat (a war being waged 5,000 miles away).

For the last six years, mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate have with varying degrees of intensity waged a cold war for power in Albany.

The group has waged an eight - year war to create an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, and provoked international outrage by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls known as the Chibok Girls in April 2014.

The legal power of these international conventions is enforced in Russian Federation by the article 236 of the Criminal code «Using prohibited means and methods of waging war» with the penalty up to 20 years in prison.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

Target fired the first salvo of this year's holiday hiring wars, saying that it would raise its minimum hourly wage to $ 11 next month and then to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2020.

To this administration's credit, the last two years, or at least since one doughty, no - nonsense police officer named Ibrahim Magu became Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the anti-corruption war has been waged in a manner that has never been seen in the history of Nigeria.

For the past 40 years, doctors around the world have been waging a war on salt.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that levies millions of dollars» worth of damage on crops each year is a stealthy invader with the ability to wage war on the genes of its host plants.

Though this round of naming seems to have gone off without a hitch, other dramatic battles over element names have been waged in the past, from the hundred - year - long battle over the element now called niobium to the Transfermium Wars of the 1960s.

The Heartland Institute for years has waged a public relations war on your community's right to wire itself if nobody else will.

I have a dream team at my disposal to help me battle this war with my weight, a battle that I have waged for years.

For the past 30 years, we've been told to wage the war on fat.

On a family picnic, brothers Rick and Teddy spend their time keeping three year - old sister Becky out of trouble, and waging war on a hill of ants with squirt guns and magnifying glasses.

More importantly, last year set up what should be an action - packed Season 8, as the various human factions wage «all out war» to determine who's going to control the scant resources of a land infested with the undead.

All we know is that an alien race is waging a war against mankind a thousand years in the future.

Superimposed to his sadness at the failure of the 1974 Revolução dos Cravos (Carnation Revolution), I could hear and see echoes of the still - undigested colonial war Portugal waged for so many years.

The Hundred Years» War, which you indeed recall, was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to the French throne.

This year's Academy Award nominees in the animated feature film category take audiences everywhere from Afghanistan to the mind of an infant desperately waging a war against puppies.

Unlike other wars fought by U.S. troops in the last 50 years, this one isn't being waged to protect our allies or our foreign interests.

This was so abhorrent to Suecoff that she was still waging war against Perullo a year after Perullo's resignation.

In fact, NYSUT, which Iannuzzi has headed since 2005, has waged a scorched - earth campaign against New York charters for years, dipping into a billion - dollar war chest to do so.