His introduction is often cited as the beginnings of the sanitization of children's stories, although he did not do a great deal more than eliminate harsh moral lessons.

“ The Taliban have been engaged with some of the new Leopard II tanks in several ambushes ” and that as a result the Taliban “ learned some very harsh lessons ” and lost the battle in question “ very quickly and very violently .”

Having learned the harsh lessons of naval combat at night after the Battle of Tassafaronga, the Battle of Kula Gulf, and the previous PT boat debacle, the American destroyers did not give away their position with gunfire, but rather, they waited until they had all their torpedoes in the water.

These weekly lessons entailed a long, harsh commute by rail and on foot from his family home in the western rural outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to the teacher's home in the hills of Santa Teresa.

The high altitude and freezing conditions also cause logistical and welfare difficulties ; in past similar conflicts ( such as the Italian Campaign of World War I ) more casualties have been caused by the harsh conditions than enemy action.

Secret German archives found after 1945 proved that the German government and military intended to settle the conflict on harsh terms ( especially against France and Belgium, whom they held responsible for damages after World War I ).

Political chaos, several strikes, harsh relations with the church, and considerable economic problems aggravated by a disastrous military intervention in the First World War led to the military 28 May 1926 coup d ' état.

It called this a ' smear ' which was ' completely at variance with the facts ' because ' revisionist scholars ' such as Faurisson, Butz ' and bestselling British historian David Irving acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed and otherwise perished during the Second World War as a direct and indirect result of the harsh anti-Jewish policies of Germany and its allies '.

At the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as 13 were caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism and in huge numbers cheerfully enlisted for active service others to avoid the harsh and dreary lives they had working in British industry.

The outbreak of the First World War brought food rationing ; the Allied blockade and a harsh winter in 1917 led to further shortages.

Though Taylor argued that the Second World War was not inevitable and that the Versailles treaty was nowhere near as harsh as contemporaries like John Maynard Keynes believed, what he regarded as a flawed peace settlement made the war more likely than not.

While book royalties and a sort of " Tsuji Jun Fan Club " ( provided some economic support, Tsuji was caught up in a harsh late World War II economic environment and would spend the last few years of his life in vagabond poverty.

Before the war, many observers believed the US and its allies could win but might suffer substantial casualties ( certainly more than any conflict since Vietnam ), and that the tank battles across the harsh desert might rival those of North Africa during World War II.

During the Second World War, Allied prisoners of war in the harsh Japanese camps often had nothing but a breechcloth to wear.

In 2010 a group of forty prominent historians ranked Jagland as the weakest Norwegian prime minister since the end of the Second World War ; two years before, his predecessor Gro Harlem Brundtland had criticized his premiership in harsh terms and described Jagland as " stupid ".

As the harsh realities of World War I affected people around the world, the public's taste for the art of the past began to change.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh character, and his first major film role, in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( where he starred opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie ), featured him cast as a tough ( but sympathetic ) POW camp sergeant during World War II.

: the United States has, among other things, attempted or been perceived as attempting more or less unilaterally to do the following: pressure other countries to adopt American values and practices regarding human rights and democracy ; prevent other countries from acquiring military capabilities that could counter American conventional superiority ; enforce American law extra-territorially in other societies ; grade countries according to their adherence to American standards on human rights, drugs, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, missile proliferation, and now religious freedom ; apply sanctions against countries that do not meet American standards on these issues ; promote American corporate interests under the slogans of free trade and open markets and GATT being the main examples of the free trade policy initiatives of the 1990s ; shape World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies to serve those same corporate interests ; intervene in local conflicts in which it has relatively little direct interest ; ... ; promote American arms sales abroad while attempting to prevent comparable sales by other countries ; force out one U. N. secretary-general and dictate the appointment of his successor ; expand NATO initially to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic and no one else ; undertake military action against Iraq and later maintain harsh economic sanctions against the regime ; and categorize certain countries as ' rogue states ,' excluding them from global institutions ....< sup > 1 </ sup >

In " an astonishing exception " to the harsh economics of African Americans of the time, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially during the Great Depression and World War II because the general store she owned sold needed basic commodities and because " she made wise and honest investments ".

" Oliphant became a harsh critic of nuclear weapons and a member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

Adjusting to civilian life had not been easy for Prince after World War II, and with painfully arthritic knees as a result of the long, harsh conditions during his military service, his capabilities were limited.

Benazir Bhutto, on other hand, adopted Nawaz Sharif's conservative privatization policies in order to secure funding from the United States and the World Bank, but met with a harsh opposition inside of her party.

During World War I, the German occupation was harsh and destructive.

During World War I, they carried out an unusually harsh and severe occupation of areas which they conquered.

The reprisals for collaboration with the Nazis were particularly harsh in Yugoslavia, because collaborators were also on the losing side of a de facto civil war fought on the Yugoslav territory during World War II.

** Dunnin's World: A harsh, dry world, with low population and resources.

The years immediately after World War I were economically harsh, but a new product was introduced: a small two cylinder U2 outboard engine designed by Carl-Axel Skärlund.

Tuymans first made his mark in the 1980s, when he began to explore Europe's memories of World War II with harsh, elegant paintings like Gas Chamber ( 1986 ), which depicts the Dachau concentration camp.

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), German Cancellor Otto von Bismarck proposed harsh terms for peace — including the German occupation of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

George Thompson, an English engineer who worked for the younger López ( he distinguished himself as a Paraguayan officer during the Paraguayan War, and later wrote a book about his experience ) had harsh words for his ex-employer and commander, calling him " a monster without parallel ".

The Sino-Indian War is notable for the harsh conditions under which much of the fighting took place, entailling large-scale combat at altitudes of over 4, 250 metres ( 14, 000 feet ).

* March 12 – The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War ; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.

This was hardly Rickover's first clash with the defense industry ; he was historically hard, even harsh, in exacting high standards from these contractors – but now his relationship with Electric Boat took on the characteristics of an all-out, no-holds-barred war ( Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover & General Dynamics, 1986 ).

* harsh and emotional criticism of the United States over the Vietnam War ;

These policies, developed after the Cold War, sought to establish a multilateral consensus for action ( which would likely take the form of increasingly harsh sanctions against the problem states, summarized as the policy of containment ).

During King Phillips War, many Nipmuc from around Marlboro and Natick were re-located to Deer Island, and many died from the harsh winter in 1675.

Pomaria was first settled in the mid 18th century by German, Swiss, and Dutch immigrants escaping the poverty and harsh conditions resulting from the Thirty Years ' War.

Appointed Governor of Gibraltar by the War Office, gazetted 23 March 1802, the Duke took up his post on 24 May 1802 with express orders from the government to restore discipline among the drunken troops but his harsh discipline brought disaster precipitating a mutiny by soldiers in his own and the 25th Regiment on Christmas Eve 1802.

" Poole announces his intention to redeem Mather's name, using as a springboard a harsh critique of a recently published tome by Charles Wentworth Upham called " Salem Witchcraft Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects.

After 61 days of harsh imprisonment, during which Prince Robert I of Capua's Norman army was repulsed on its rescue mission, Paschal II yielded and guaranteed investiture to the Emperor.

In victory, Philip II is harsh on Thebes, but merciful on Athens, thanks to the efforts of the Athenian orator and diplomat, Demades, who helps negotiate a peace agreement between Macedonia and Athens.

King James II approved Kirke's commission in 1685, but Kirke came under harsh criticism for his role in putting down Monmouth's Rebellion, and his commission was withdrawn.

On the cape's hill was built a large metallic cross ( Cruz de los Mares, Cross of the Seas ) in honor to John Paul II Pope's visit to Chile, back in 1987, it was first built in 1913, and several times in between due to the harsh weather.

Its coverage of the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles during World War II also was particularly harsh on the Mexican-American community.

During the Prodi II Cabinet IdV was the most centrist party in the centre-left coalition and sometimes, despite its harsh criticism of Berlusconi, it switched sides in Parliament on some key issues.

Because of his own revolutionary activities and his harsh criticism of the imperial regime, including personal criticism of emperor Nicholas II, he was imprisoned several times in various European countries.

When World War II ended Gajda was imprisoned by the NKVD ( May 12, 1945 ) and interrogated under harsh conditions ( he lost his eyesight while jailed ).

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Rabbi Rosen was a harsh critic of the efforts to rehabilitate the image of Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the period when it had been allied with the Axis Powers during World War II, and continued to advocate emigration to Israel: " Demagogy is very strong here ... Neofascist propaganda ... plays on xenophobia.

During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, radio broadcasts were censored — under particularly harsh conditions from August 1943 — leading many Danes to turn to Danish-language broadcasts from BBC or the illegal press, as well as Swedish radio in 1944 – 1945.

During World War II, in July 1942, an encirclement of Soviet troops by German forces occurred around the city, resulting in the Soviet troops being led off into harsh conditions of captivity.

The Spanish government, under Philip II started harsh persecution campaigns, supported by the Spanish inquisition.

A joint U. S .- French force of the French First Army reinforced by the U. S. XXI Corps overwhelmed fierce Wehrmacht and SS resistance in harsh winter conditions between 20 January and 9 February 1945, bringing to a close the last German offensive of World War II.

Under Elliot's leadership, the SUA contributed significantly to the war effort during World War II, and over the years the harsh and dangerous working conditions of rank and file Australian seamen greatly improved.