Later, during the early 1930s, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, but soon began to spend more time in the galleries in and around Cork Street, only a stone's throw away from academia, and the pre-war powerhouse of the modern spirit.
AQAP and the Houthis are longstanding opponents but the recent conflict, broadly understood as a proxy war between Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, has sparked a dramatic uptick in violent confrontations as the jihadists and rebels jostle for territory in a conflict that has inflamed long simmering sectarian tensions.
Japan, stripped of its military might after World War II, became a powerhouse of innovation.
The fighting has also taken on the appearance of a proxy war between Iran, the Shia powerhouse backing the Houthis, and Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia.
When North Koreans visited Seoul, which rose from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War to become an economic powerhouse, they used to accuse their counterparts of mobilizing cars to impress them.
While South Ossetia is a poor border region of Georgia battered by war, Tatarstan is an economic powerhouse in the heart of Russia, boasting both oil reserves and the political stability that is catnip to investors.
The ever-presence of the Times in my daily life was no surprise and that, in itself, is part of the layered argument Shields makes in his newest book, War Is Beautiful, published by powerHouse Books last month.
"A peace to end peace," commented Sir Alfred Milner, that powerhouse of the British war cabinet, as he surveyed the terms of the Versailles treaty that supposedly brought the combat to a close.
We were the birthplace of Yankee ingenuity in the 19th century, the arsenal of democracy in World War II, and the undisputed economic powerhouse of the last century.
LUANDA, Angola — From his doorstep, Paulo Silva can see emblems of his country's transformation from war-addled basket case to petroleum powerhouse.
Scorched Earth 12.11.00 Memory-chip powerhouse Micron Technology is battling wars on all fronts.
