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If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
Uther later falls ill, but when the wars against the Saxons go badly he insists on leading his army himself, propped up on his horse.
Occasionally they were followed by worried parents who, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, pleaded with them to forget about foreign wars and go back to school.
: It is, I submit, greatly to be deplored that after more than 100 years of our national existence, after the government has withstood the strain of foreign wars and the dread ordeal of civil strife, and its people have become united and powerful, this court should consider itself compelled to go back to a long repudiated and rejected theory of the constitution, by which the government is deprived of an inherent attribute of its being — a necessary power of taxation.
The ideology behind the event was that " wars would end and all the bad things would go away if everyone just played air guitar.
Owing to famines, wars, and shortages of land, many southern Chinese chose to go overseas to seek a better life.
Meanwhile, Luo Shang ordered that the Qin / Yong refugees to go home and that they surrender all property that they pillaged during the wars of Zhao's rebellion.
* In his novel We, The Drowned Marstal native Carsten Jensen describes the maritime history of the town where the men were expected to go to sea and the women to be left behind, an epic tale spanning four generations, nearly one hundred years, and two world wars.
The controversy regarding the decrees came about when the weapons sold did not go to Panama, Bolivia, and Venezuela as had been accorded, but instead the weapons ended up in Croatia and Ecuador at times when both of these nations were involved in wars and prohibited from receiving international military aid.
If wars between young democracies are included in the analysis, several studies and reviews still find enough evidence supporting the stronger claim that all democracies, whether young or established, go into war with one another less frequently ( Ray 1998 ), ( Ray 2003 ),, while some do not.
Taxes were normally very low, and the necessity to go to Parliament to fund wars was an effective check on the monarch's power.
Pupils have continued to go on to later fame-Patrick Abercrombie, pioneer Town Planner ; Sir Malcolm Campbell, motor racer ; James Elroy Flecker, poet and playwright: CRW Nevinson, official war artist in both wars ; WH Pratt ( Boris Karloff ), film actor ; E. J.
He was told to go to the North where there were wars, where he could fight and become famous as the south at the time was too stable.
In 2002, inspired by the huge success of her album Agurida, Loredana decided to go further in rediscovering and reinterpriting some old Romanian songs after meticulous research on the period between the two world wars.
* Why wars often go wrong
This is, of course not to argue that Hitler was " forced to go to war " in the sense of not wanting to, but rather the wars which the Third Reich actually fought bore very little relation to the wars which he appears to have wanted to fight: and this was so, because of domestic pressures and constraints which were economic in origin and also expressed themselves in acute social and political tensions.
Reginald was primarily important as the juncture between two important families, and for the politically-important connections that he and his children formed, and from which later holders of the title would profit ; although he did go to the wars, commanding garrisons in France from 1418 to 1421.
Wilson takes a long, hard look at the federal government ’ s budget and notices that huge hunks of it go to pay for wars past present and future and ( this is 1963, remember ) the program to put a man on the moon.
Since the change of government, and the passage, with support from all parties, of a Parliamentary apology to indigenous Australians, Professor of Australian Studies Richard Nile has argued: " the culture and history wars are over and with them should also go the adversarial nature of intellectual debate ", a view contested by others, including conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen.

wars and Laos
Operations on foreign territory were either territorial wars ( such as the Laos Civil War ) or conflicts mandated by the United Nations.
Originally, the Tai, or Dai, lived closely together in modern Yunnan Province until political chaos and wars in the north at the end of the Tang and Song Dynasty and various nomadic peoples prompted some to move further south into modern Laos then Thailand.
Reconstruction after various wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were major projects, alongside the aid given after the overthrow of dictators Idi Amin in Uganda and Somoza in Nicaragua.

wars and is
The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.
We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.
Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.
If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.
Kornemann's brief is that Antoninus might have waged preventive wars to head off these outsiders.
Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.
Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.
* 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman – Habsburg wars.
South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event ; as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since year 1865 during the Paraguayan War.
Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.
Cluster sampling is used to estimate high mortalities in cases such as wars, famines and natural disasters.
This point is especially important, as these wars demonstrated that such energies could be of decisive importance and for a time led to a democratization of the armed forces much as universal suffrage democratized politics.
The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
This includes civil wars, however no specific definition of civil war is provided in the text of the Conventions.
For example, the formation of the modern states of Germany and Italy in the 19th century is closely associated with the wars of expansion and consolidation led by Prussia and Sardinia, respectively.
The formation of a strong international law regime and norms against territorial aggression is strongly associated with the dramatic drop in the number of interstate wars, though it has also been attributed to the effect of the Cold War or to the changing nature of economic development.
While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.
While he was known to call himself a " visitor to small wars ", he refrained from becoming involved in Vietnam, but is known to have done undocumented work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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