Sentences with phrase «years of fighting which»

Later that month ETA declared a ceasefire, ending nearly 40 years of fighting which resulted in over 800 deaths (more than half civilians)- only time will tell if they will honor it this time.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

The DMZ, which snakes for 240 km (150 miles) along the 38th parallel, was drawn in the 1953 armistice that ended three years of bitter fighting.

Meanwhile, a handful of uncertainties confront the SBA, including the potential revival of a popular commercial - real - estate - refinance program and a potential resolution to the sequester fighting, which make it difficult to predict where SBA lending will be a year from now.

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

Hanging over the start of the year is a renewed fight over raising the nation's borrowing limit, which the Treasury says must be resolved by late February or early March to avert an unprecedented U.S. default.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Environmentalists have fought for years to stem Canadian oil sands production, which some call tar sands, in favor of cleaner energy.

This year, the Forest Service, which is responsible for most of the country's fire - fighting efforts, has a budget of $ 708 million for fire suppression and another $ 303 million in a special account created in 2009 for fire fighting.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Chief among them, perhaps, is Omada Health, which in September added a $ 48 million third round of financing to fight obesity - related chronic disease, which is estimated to cost the economy $ 500 billion a year.

The company reportedly spent upwards of $ 8 million fighting the proposition, which would have kept hosts from renting their homes for more than 75 days a year.

MBS's fight brings to mind Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption efforts, which have been ongoing since Xi assumed power five years ago and have led to the detainment or punishment of an astonishing 1.4 million party members, according to multiple sources.

Inside the FBI, which Trump has attacked as part of his effort to undercut Mueller's investigation throughout his first year in office, the feeling is that the Nunes fight could provide a small victory — at least for now.

Just a few years ago it seemed like bitcoin was a singular force, which in retrospect was incredibly naive since it's open source tech managed by a bunch of fighting nerds.

Within just three years of its launch, Amazon's India arm — Amazon.in — has become a top player in the Indian e-commerce space, fighting neck - to - neck with the homegrown Flipkart, which began operations in 2008.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The number of years that a brand name drug is patented for is extremely important to a drug company, which will fight tooth and nail to prevent its expiration.

The ATO had been expected to focus on interest deductions claimed by the Australian subsidiaries of Exxon and rival oil giant Shell, both of which are shareholders in Gorgon, after the operator of the giant gas project, Chevron, lost a $ 340 million tax fight in the Federal Court last year.

In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem - cell research]-- which did slow down this [adult stem - cell] research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»

And yet they can not seem to eclipse, in the public mind, a morally ambivalent war that ended seventy - three years ago, which was fought with the utmost ruthlessness, and one of whose victors was an appalling despotism of lies and murder.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

But even if we are thus reconciled in the «idea», this does not mean that the actual separated Churches are united, those Churches which for 450 years have lived side by side, fighting and contradicting each other, or, worst of all, indifferent to one another.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

Luckily any given election is never entirely over for either party to the dispute because in two to four years hence the people will be able to fight it out again — even as new unforeseen and important circumstances which must be dealt with will inevitably present themselves for the consideration of the community.

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

She wants to show me while my toddler and five - year - old are fighting over who gets to sit in the stroller and who gets to stand on the back of the stroller, which is a war of the purest possible attrition and principled fury, because each wants to be wherever the other currently happens to be.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

My five - year - old patients in particular, wheezing after family fights, obviously need the more sophisticated grasp of orgasm which Dr. Perls apparently provided to his clients.

Albert Winn's concluding remarks in his review of The Theology of Emil Brunner almost 25 years ago are still apropos: «Though Brunner's system may never become regnant, the great truths for which he has fought throughout a long lifetime will live on to challenge his successors and to be used by them in the theological constructions of the future.»

He will also get ready for battle by assembling his troops... which makes no damn sense because as soon as he gathered his troops, god rains down fire on him and cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone forever... so what's the purpose of releasing him for a thousand years and gathering up troops to fight a battle that will never happen??? Beats me!!

If it has piqued your interest, the full story of Tibet's fight is told in the book «Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope» (2009)- which I now wish I had told and illustrated through Manga!

For years her denomination published a periodical, Women's Chains, which fought for the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled shoe.

Had he been born a hundred years earlier, when the wars which preceded the creation of the principate by Augustus were still to be fought, or had he appeared two centuries later when the imperial structure was beginning to crumble, the course of the Christian faith would have been much more difficult.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

The agreement between Beijing and Canberra to export live cattle was separate to the hard - fought Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect at the start of this year.

The transaction comes amid heightened interest in Australian dairy assets, following the hard fought battle for control of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, which was eventually won by Canada's Saputo earlier this year.

ha had the chance of joining PSG this summer the team to beat 2017/2018 CL season and Ligue 1 in France, and why did he leave Barcelona he should of stayed and fight for his place and now that Neymar has left he could of slotted in nicely, he could also joined Bayern Munich which is a guaranteed Bundesliga winners almost every year, so why moan about loosing when you make the choices

Early along he did that uncool stuff — got into a bar fight, changed the pronunciation of his name from DOR - sett to Dor - SETT (which is how a buddy said they said it in France), told folks he'd be quitting football after five years to go into acting full time, had «TD» painted on the doors of his Lincoln Continental.

Gasly will therefore stay with Toro Rosso for the rest of the year, which means he'll miss the chance to fight for the championship in the final round of the Super Formula championship as it clashes with the Grand Prix at COTA.

HBO's Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which debuts on Oct. 5 and is directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), is a glossy and engaging docudrama that focuses on the Supreme Court's inner - chamber battles in 1971, when the justices ruled on Ali's appeal of the conviction that had cost him 3 1/2 years of his career and threatened to send him to jail for five more.

On a final notch, despite not putting up a title fight, we are gonna skip the CL qualification game, which is always nice, we've finished above United for 2 seasons in a row for the first time in ages, we're in the FA cup final for 2 years in a row and if we win we'll be record holders of the Cup.

If you are gonna fight again, period, then what's the confusion, agree now to face the winner of Tony V Khabib rather than take another random fight which will only give you an out to say I can't fight the winner I just had a fight I'm off again for another year

Taylor made the crass remarks during a radio interview, in which he was talking about Evans» decision to maintain his innocence after being convicted of raping a 19 year - old girl in Rhyl, comparing the former Welsh international's situation to the families» long fight for justice:

After the disappointments of the current campaign and with the club seemingly determined to keep Wenger in charge for at least one more year there is talk of a big shake - up at the club this summer and I think that the next few weeks could have a big say on which players the boss really trusts to give what is required to fight for the title next season.

Like his fight with Benson Henderson is like 2nd best rated show in the 7 year history of the FOX partnership, only bested by Cain vs JDS on the very FX show which was a huge deal, i mean benson fought with his belt after that too, many other titles fights and all, no one came close to those number.

If fighters begin to understad these things and they may get somewhere... otherwise 10 years down the line you would still see highly trained fighters on the «Best promotion in the world» fighting on a globally distributed broadcast on a tv deal worth millions, for $ 10K to show and $ 10K to win, 70 % of which goes for coaching fees and fight camp costs and taxes....

We will be fighting for 4th spot by the looks of it so far, which is a painful battle we've seen over the years, but the ambition of the other teams will make it even tougher this time.

What's more, Roma had more pressing matters to consider; the fight for third / fourth place in Serie A, where their city rivals, Lazio, were waiting with baited breath for the derby next week, a six pointer that might very well determine which Roman side experiences the elation of the Champions League next year and which one wallows in the Europa League.