Sentences with phrase «as disaster looms»

Two doomed lovers kept apart by the strict class system of their era, fighting to be together as disaster looms.

Not exact matches

So long as Israel lived a reasonably secure existence, unthreatened by external disasters, the hope for the future was not a question which loomed very large.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

Add to that the looming specter of growing crops for biofuel, which reduce available land for food, feed and fiber production, he said: «Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.»

Show Dogs (PG for suggestive and rude humor, action and mild epithets) Crime comedy about a police K - 9 (Ludacris) who goes undercover as a pampered pooch with the help of his detective partner (Will Arnett) to prevent a looming disaster at the world's most exclusive dog show.

Disaster always seems looming, as Jackie is unpredictable in her behavior and still very much in love with Marty.

While some works loom as softer cryptic poetic construction including Lorna Macintyre's wall assemblage and Michael Stumpf's aluminum dangling orb flooded with colored silk, others like Felix Schramm create physical disasters with the use of drywall and other construction materials.

Yumei Wang, who heads Oregon's geohazards team, is dynamic and hard - bitten, as you might expect of someone facing the reality of a looming inevitable disaster (Oregon's next great quake on the Cascadia fault) and inadequate preparation, with hundreds of schools, emergency - services buildings and vital water and power links still vulnerable.

«We need our politicians to act as true and wise leaders in the face of this looming disaster.

, who, as chair of the House Horticulture and Organic Agriculture Subcommittee, organized the first congressional hearing earlier this year to discuss this phenomenon, said: «Colony collapse disorder is a looming disaster on the horizon.

Forbes describes the current situation as a looming retirement disaster for universal life policyholders.

In the same vein as the horror stories we've alluded to, Forbes points to a looming retirement disaster for universal life policyholders.