It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

Let us prepare for peace, instead of for a war which would mean the end of civilization.

Just to remind the Communists that the bombs dropped on Japan were to end a war not start one.

Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.

Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.

But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.

It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and childish adherence to slogans like `` unconditional surrender '' had more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than treason or sympathy with Communism.

The mid-term elections in 1862 brought the Republicans severe losses due to sharp disfavor with the administration over its failure to deliver a speedy end to the war, as well as rising inflation, new high taxes, rumors of corruption, the suspension of habeas corpus, the military draft law, and fears that freed slaves would undermine the labor market.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

The PRC has invested heavily in Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002.

At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had hoped to retreat as the war drew to a close.

Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

England won only one Test out of 15 from the end of the war until 1925.

The first book assumes that gamemasters will set their campaigns after the Patternfall war ; that is, after the end of the fifth book in the series, The Courts of Chaos, but uses material from the following books to describe those parts of Zelazny's cosmology that were featured there in more detail.

U. S. involvement in the war comes to an end.

* 1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

The war also marked a watershed in the geo-political history of the region, as together with the Lombard migration the following year, it signalled the end of six centuries of Germanic dominance in the Pannonian Basin.

After the election Johnson was most anxious to complete the re-establishment of civil government in Tennessee ; Union forces brought the war to an end in that state with their victory in the Battle of Nashville in December.

After the end of the war the islands briefly returned to British control, before becoming part of the newly independent state of India.

Yet none of this was due to a lack of leadership on Andronikos ' part and his reign could be said to end before the Byzantine Empire's position became untenable due to the ensuing civil war which consumed the empire's remaining resources on Andronikos's death.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.

Several companies also saw possibilities in using the technique for extruding or molding vinyl products with a slight cellular core that would reduce costs yet would not affect physical properties of the end product to any great extent.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

While the roots of formalised logic go back to Aristotele, the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries saw the development of modern logic and formalised mathematics.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

A railway station on Brighton Road ( on the Birmingham to Bristol line ) led to further expansion, and the end of the 19th century saw a proliferation of high-density small terraced houses.

Similarly, Hart ( 1961 ) saw the law as an aspect of sovereignty, with lawmakers able to adopt any law as a means to a moral end.

The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( K-Pg event ) at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs ( as well as other terrestrial and marine flora and fauna ) at the end of the Mesozoic.

Bomber-launched variants of the V-1 saw limited operational service towards the end of the war.

Simon's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret — a battle which saw not only the defeat of Raymond of Toulouse and his Occitan allies — but also the death of Peter of Aragon — and the effective end of the ambitions of the house of Aragon / Barcelona in the Languedoc.

In Michelstadt he also saw fit to build a basilica completed in 827 and then sent a servant, Ratleic, to Rome with an end to find relics for the new building.

The new movement saw German cinema return to international critical significance for the first time since the end of the Weimar Republic.

However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.

2011 saw the release of Michel Hazanavicius ' The Artist, a silent film shot in black and white that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era.

The end of October 1918, in Kiel, in northern Germany, saw the beginning of the German Revolution of 1918 – 19.

The end of the 18th and the start of the 19th centuries saw turmoil unleashed throughout Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, which led to French occupation of much of the continent, including Spain.

At the end of the 80s he made a comeback of sorts ; Yada Yada ( 1988 ), produced by George Kooymans, was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance ( which saw the return of Danny Lademacher ).

1976 saw the end of Larry Dierker's playing career as an Astro, but before it was all over he would throw a no-hitter and win the 1, 000th game in the Astrodome.

The end of the 19th century saw the dismemberment of most of the Muslim Ottoman Empire by non-Muslim European colonial powers.

The end of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century saw rapid advancements in telecommunications, computing hardware and software, and data encryption.

Major's premiership saw the world go through a period of political and military transition after the end of the Cold War.

The loss marked the end of an era that saw the Jaguars make the playoffs in four of the team's first five years and would be the team's last playoff appearance until the 2005 season.

Social changes associated with the end of the medieval period and the Renaissance also conspired to rob the character of Arthur and his associated legend of some of their power to enthral audiences, with the result that 1634 saw the last printing of Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur for nearly 200 years.