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.

The Belgian Government made no effort to train Congolese commissioned officers until the very end of the Colonial period and there were only about 20 African cadets in training on the eve of Independence.

The play will begin with the snap of the ball ( typically but not exclusively to the quarterback ), and it will end when the effort by the offensive squad to advance the ball has either succeeded in scoring, or has been frustrated by the ball being downed before the aim of the offensive play is accomplished, or by the defensive squad having managed to come into possession of the ball without first downing it.

In anticipation of an effort to bring the border dispute to an end in early 1996, the Guatemalan Congress ratified two long-pending international agreements governing frontier issues and maritime rights.

In an effort to end the fighting, the United States government dispatched Sumner Welles to the port of Amapala ; he had instructions to try to produce a settlement that would bring to power a government eligible for recognition under the terms of the 1923 treaty.

As a result of the strain of managing the war effort directly and in close detail, Polk's health markedly declined toward the end of his presidency.

Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-party status of Kenya into a de-jure status during the 1980s, but with the end of the Cold War, the practices of political repression and torture which had been " overlooked " by the Western powers as necessary evils in the effort to contain communism were no longer tolerated.

The government-led effort — that began in the 1990s — to connect the country by expressways via the " National Trunk Highway System " has expanded the network to about by the end of 2011

The end product of this effort is what the industry terms as-built drawings, or more simply, “ as built .” The requirement for providing them is a norm in construction contracts.

Sega's 32X effort lacked the software titles and 3D capabilities the gaming community demanded ; the add-on technology represented a dead end, ultimately punishing early adopters.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

In one final effort to break the deadlock and end the war NATO forces planned a summer offensive across Northern Poland and into the Baltics, but the offensive ground to a halt in the face of a Warsaw Pact counterattack.

McClernand afterwards made an attempt to salvage Sherman's effort to no avail, so at the end of the first day neither Grant nor McClernand had succeeded.

In the end this effort was found illegal and halted by the Supreme Court.

* May 30 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Hercegovina.

A total of £ 1. 2 million is raised for the war effort against Louis XIV by the end of the year to establish the first-ever government debt.

Simultaneously 15 years of war effort also came to an end ; many Portuguese returned from the colonies ( the retornados ) and came to comprise a sizeable number of the population: approximately 580, 000 of Portugal's 9, 8 million citizens in 1981.

When the exercise becomes difficult towards the end of a set, there is a temptation to cheat, i. e., to use poor form to recruit other muscle groups to assist the effort.

The basic problem is that if people ignore the scarcity value of the commons, they can end up expending too much effort, over harvesting a resource ( e. g., a fishery ).

From the end of World War I to the an international effort to restore the cathedral from the ruins has continued.

To that end, Hill was a major figure in the effort launched by J. P. Morgan to float the Anglo-French Bond drive of 1915, which allowed the Allies to purchase much-needed foodstuffs and other supplies.

Rolls put much effort into publicising the quietness and smoothness of the Rolls-Royce, and at the end of 1906 travelled to the USA to promote the new cars.

The Harkin-Engel Protocol is an effort to end these practices.

Near the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an effort to extend the province system of China proper to the rest of the empire.

* September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: A wordless ceremony at the World Trade Center site marks the end of the recovery effort.

At the end of World War II, Chinese Kuomintang forces took over Taiwan and soon began an effort to sinicize the population.