Requests for designs, at various stages during the war, were made to the major German aircraft manufacturers ( Messerschmitt, Junkers, Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and the Horten Brothers ) early in World War II, coinciding with the passage of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom in September 1940.

The 13th King's sailed for India in December 1941, coinciding with Japan's entrance into the war.

At the same time a number of quartets left Stamps-Baxter resulting in the end of the company ’ s quartet sponsorship coinciding with the end of the war.

This temporarily grants the Escapist superhuman strength and agility, allowing him to openly combat the Axis forces ( coinciding in the novel with Joe Kavalier's feeling of helplessness as the war continues to rage on ).

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

Captain Heard did not communicate with any strange vessels because of the possibility of war between the United States and Britain.

Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.

But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg includes not one war but two, and throws in a Turkish revolution along with some guerrilla fighting in the desert for good measure.

But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

In a pessimistic assessment of the cold war, Eden declared: `` There must be much closer unity within the West before there can be effective negotiation with the East ''.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

It was on the eve of a momentous U.N. session to come to grips with cold war issues.

The Free Democrats ( 12 per cent of the vote ) believe a nuclear war can be avoided by negotiating with the Soviet Union, and more dealings with the Communist bloc.

Both won a pretty fair-sized war with a modest assist from British strategy.

The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

Properly mindful of all the cultures in existence today throughout the world, we must employ these resources without war or violent revolution.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.

The sister and companion of the violent Ares is Eris, the goddess of discord, or Enyo, the goddess of war, bloodshed, and violence.

Unlike the Vedic religion, ancient Buddhism had strong misgivings about violent ways of punishing criminals and about war.

But, by the publication of Antony's will, which had been put into his hands by the traitor Plancus, and by carefully letting it be known at Rome what preparations were going on at Samos, and how entirely Antony was acting as the agent of Cleopatra, Octavian produced such a violent outburst of feeling that he easily obtained Antony's deposition from the consulship of 31, for which he had been designated, and a vote for a proclamation of war against Cleopatra, well understood to mean against Antony, though he was not named.

James Fearon, a scholar of civil wars at Stanford University, defines a civil war as " a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies ".

Similarly, Human Rights Watch pointed out that " the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses ... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war " in a 1989 report.

Four ( Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia ) out of six Yugoslav republics declared independence and for most of them a violent war ensued, in some parts lasting until 1995.

The war now became a stalemate — the famous " Western Front " was fought largely in France and was characterized by very little movement despite extremely large and violent battles, often with new and more destructive military technology.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

" The " Contras systematically engage in violent abuses ... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.

It is largely characterised by its affinity to the principles and objectives of nonviolent humanistic socialism, but with a rejection of violent class war and promotion of socio-economic harmony.

( This struggle has in every edition of the game been characterized both as primarily a covert, violent war directly between factions, and primarily as an effort to sway the imaginations and beliefs of sleepers.

This sparked a violent reaction in 1878 as High Chief Atal of La Foa managed to unite many of the central tribes and launched a guerrilla war which cost 200 Frenchmen and 1, 000 Kanaks their lives.

Rather, the Trinity of forces that drive the course of real-world war in Clausewitz's view are 1 ) violent emotion, 2 ) the interplay of chance and probability, and 3 ) political calculations driven by reason.

Economic grievances and political disenfranchisement in East Pakistan led to violent political tensions and army repression, escalating into civil war followed by the third war with India.

In international relations, peacetime is not only the absence of war or violent conflict, but also the presence of positive and respectful cultural and economic relationships.

Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence, even to the point of allowing self-harm rather than a resort to violent resistance.

The early non violent protests developed into a violent confrontation with the state and eventual civil war.

That Thucydides was clearly moved by the suffering inherent in war and concerned about the excesses to which human nature is prone in such circumstances is evident in his analysis of the atrocities committed during civil conflict on Corcyra, which includes the phrase " War is a violent teacher ".

High-ranking diplomatic visits to South Africa repeatedly attempted to persuade Mbeki to take a harder line with Robert Mugabe over violent state-sponsored attacks on political opponents and opposition movements, expropriation of white-owned farms by ZANU-PF allied " war veterans ", sanctioning against the press, and infringements on the independence of the judiciary.

Although there may be disagreements as to whether a particular game qualifies as a wargame or not, a general consensus exists that all such games must explore and illuminate or simulate some feature or aspect of human behaviour directly bearing on the conduct of war, even if the game subject itself does not concern organized violent conflict or warfare.