Sentences with phrase «as inhospitable»

If Hansen and many other alarmists were correct, then logically the Earth's climate should have become as inhospitable as that of Venus hundreds of millions of years ago.

For every type of star in the simulation, Forgan and his colleagues estimated the probability that terrestrial planets would form, some of which might be Earth — like or might be as inhospitable as Mercury.

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As my colleague Matt Heimer, who shepherded this extraordinary package of stories, points out in the guide's introduction, anyone who reviewed a quick B - roll of 2016 would have seen a terrain that looked utterly inhospitable for investors.

On the very rare occasions when I, a Presbyterian pastor, find myself in the pew as guest at another church's communion service, I do a most inhospitable thing: I smell the cup.

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

As punishment, the serpent must slink through life on its belly in the dirt, and man must toil against stubborn, inhospitable land until his death.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

The rugged terrains of the hills are harsh and sometimes inhospitable, in its changing forms and moods as though reiterating the fact that the nature is all powerful.

App State, as it's known in conference, play in picturesque, inhospitable, 16,500 - seat Kid Brewer Stadium, a.k.a. the Rock, where students tore down the goalposts last Saturday night, then deposited one of them on the front lawn of chancellor Kenneth Peacock.

What the Beef Products process does is increase the amount of ammonium hydroxide in the lean beef to elevate its overall pH and make the product inhospitable to the survival of pathogens, such as E. coli and salmonella.

Because no Indian or Pakistani troops were present in the inhospitable northeastern areas beyond this point, the Ceasefire Line was not delineated as far as the Chinese border.

The hope is that even if its old territory eventually becomes inhospitable, as experts predict it will, the larch and other trees will thrive in their new homes, and so will British Columbia's economy.

The shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, are dry and inhospitable, with grasses as the dominant plant type.

Just as you wouldn't bird - watch in interior Antarctica, you wouldn't search for aliens in inhospitable environments.

Another extreme, but surprisingly lively, environment can be found in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, which are some of the most inhospitable places on Earth: temperatures have fallen as low as -90 degrees Fahrenheit, and winds can blow up to 200 mph.

Besides explaining the estimated differences in ages between gas giants such as Neptune and Uranus and rocky worlds such as Earth and Venus, the new findings help explain how gas - swaddled super-Earths — ones possibly shrouded with inhospitable atmospheres — were banished from an otherwise inhabitable neighborhood.

As a result, she continued, «mushrooms are able to disperse their spores even in the most inhospitable surroundings.»

In any case, given that 61 Vir b and HD 1461 b orbit sun analogues at roughly one sixth the distance that Mercury circles the sun, both would be scalding bodies inhospitable to life as we know it.

Previous studies have found that climate change will likely turn the United Kingdom into a refuge for many butterflies, as warming temperatures open up previously inhospitable habitats.

The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the aiAs higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the aias releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.

Kepler - 186b, Kepler - 186c, Kepler - 186d, and Kepler - 186e, orbit every three, seven, 13, and 22 days, respectively, making them very hot and inhospitable for life as we know it.

By all accounts, the exoplanet known as WASP - 19b is a pretty inhospitable place.

Many microorganisms have survival strategies, such as the formation of cysts, which enable them to withstand periods of inhospitable conditions.

By «sharpening up the dividing line» between these two groups of small exoplanets, Fulton argues that in the future astronomers will be able to better select where to hunt for alien life on truly habitable «super-Earths» rather than the «mini-Neptunes» with crushing atmospheres that would be «inhospitable to life as we know it.»

«As far as I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINAs far as I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINas I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINA.

Area X is a foreboding, inhospitable land where the laws of physics and nature have turned in on themselves as the environment mutates with new and fascinating results.

This became clearer as I progressed deeper into this strange, alien world, where I would face creatures that succumbed to the great poison known as Phazon in inhospitable environments like the fiery depths of Magmoor Caverns and the icy wastelands of Phendrana Drifts.

Women, not surprisingly, improvised most desperately to retain their places in inhospitable worlds, all the way from the college - age single mom scraping by as a prostitute in Anahí Berneri's Alanis, a bracing Argentine exercise in heightened vérité, to the ongoing travails of Kholoud Al - Faqih, the first female to preside over a Shari'a court, profiled in Erika Cohn's indelible documentary The Judge.

Michael Shannon stars as a morally upright but profoundly haunted farmer who struggles to provide for his family (Kodi Smit - McPhee and Elle Fanning) in a parched, inhospitable environment.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

«I've got to «science» the shit out of this,» he intones to himself and, as a botanist, he finds a way to grow potatoes in soil that seems to be inhospitable.

BORREGO SPRINGS, California — As a truck devotee who's put nearly 12,000 miles on the first - gen Ford Raptor, half of them while racing across some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable landscapes, I couldn't wait to get behind the wheel of the new 2017 Ford F - 150 Raptor, which Ford says has been upgraded in nearly every significant way.

The temporary displacement of the herds in the Iberian Peninsula (Transhumance) as the seasons, led to the dispersal and fiction of these dogs in various regions, creating different races if the regions were distinct, well - defined and isolated by large rivers or inhospitable mountains.

With a coat unlike any other, they can not only survive, but thrive in inhospitable climates such as Siberia, Alaska, and the Arctic.

The sooner you make Rover and Fluffy inhospitable to fleas, the less chance of fleas using your pet's poor body as a breeding ground.

Depending on which trip you choose, you can explore several destinations including but not limited to: Magdalena Island (with its population of over 120,000 penguins), Cape Horn (this trip is weather permitting given its notoriety as one of the world's most inhospitable places to sail), and the Günter Plüschow Glacier where the deepest blues and whitest whites will shock your senses as you gaze out at your surroundings.

The island has a story of being a legendary place, conceived as an imaginary «End of the World», an inhospitable place until its transmutation into a place that could be settled by European explorers at the beginning of twentieth century.

Critics describe these worlds, leaden with dread and portent, as uniquely inhospitable.

While the game still includes barriers (such as weather effects, inhospitable environments or strong enemies), many of these can be overcome by using Food, effective weapons and armor or finding alternate routes.

Survival of the fittest is the name of this visually impressive game, as battles wage across the globe - from the outskirts of abandoned cities and factories to the vast, barren dunes of inhospitable deserts.

When I was young and making a lot of that work, I was having a terrible time as a woman artist on the LA art scene, which was very inhospitable to women.

Was his wife sour and inhospitable or, as Meyer Schapiro wrote, the «tender image of esthetic feeling»?

Born in Ontario in 1882, David Milne studied in New York and served in Europe as a war artist during the Second World War, before returning to his native country and making his name with unique modernist paintings that capture the wintery, inhospitable beauty of the Canadian landscape.

The resulting periodical, The North Georgia Gazette, presents the sailors as an older, idiosyncratic DIY art collective whose activities arguably sustained the crew through a physically, and psychologically inhospitable environment.

If, as Hall states, representation is a form of power, then Strachan's art is a way of complicating recurrent themes such as invisibility, migration, and displacement and to understand what Strachan describes as «the capacity of both persons and matter to withstand inhospitable environments.

The landscape is dotted with mushrooms — fungi that have no roots and flourish in inhospitable areas without sunlight — which can serve as a metaphor for immigration.

Dana Frankfort is a rare example of a painter willing to inhabit the inhospitable territory that would claim both words and gestural abstraction as its provenance.

Though it's not as exciting as a arsenic - based life form, researchers in one of Antarctica's most inhospitable valleys have stumbled upon an ecosystem unlike any other.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human lifAs we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human lifas to make it inhospitable to human life.

They suspect that polar bears rid themselves of many diseases and parasites as they migrated north and adopted a fat - based diet that is inhospitable to most parasitesâ $ ™ intermediate hosts.