Sentences with phrase «as predictions of doom»

Prophets» oracles are located in the context of narratives describing how God is related to Israel, and who Israel is - and is failing to be — in relation to God, and construed as announcements of promise and not simply as predictions of doom.

Some have taken his criticism of the Fire as a prediction of doom for the product — he's pretty open about that in the NY Times today.

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My doom - and - gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the fake news epidemic, and now fears an «information apocalypse» as the trolls turbo - charge their efforts with AI.

Let's get the facts straight here.He never demanded # 400,000 a week.All that is just media talk.However, I support your point of the fact that him going does not mean disaster.We've survived with far better players leaving you know.If Arsenal had replaced Van Persie the season he left we would've challenged them for the title that season.However, at that time we were financially poor and had to settle for some second rate players.Now we are in a better financial position and I expect us to be more ambitious and that involves trying as much as possible to replace any player who leaves.This doom prediction doesn't show the character of a top club.Even Chelsea won't behave like how we do if they lost Hazard.I hate the way Arsenal allows players to treat it.I actually thought only smaller clubs behaved that way.

Yet Remain seem intent to plough on with the same predictions of doom rather than (or as well as) promoting a positive vision of Britain as a country which is socially, politically and culturally European and for which the EU is its natural home.

But Mr Johnson led a furious backlash as he accused the Chancellor of «talking down» Britain and ridiculed the latest doom - mongering prediction.

While many express cautious optimism that Labour will win next May, the next conversation comes with predictions of electoral doom, as Lib Dem floaters return home and Cameron rallies.

Depletion of useful materials has often prompted predictions of doom, but as Richard Webb argues, we need not worry in the long term

While libraries have done well for themselves despite the dire predictions of doom following the digital revolution — largely by reinventing themselves as providers of other community needs while still making books their focus — there have been some highly ominous predictions for libraries in the current political climate.

As for bonds, well, we've been hearing predictions of doom and gloom about them for at least six years.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle still used it as a favorite cudgel through the 1990s and 2000s, but as Dooms Day predictions about Grand Theft Auto - warped teens failed to come to fruition, many abandoned the issue.

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

Do you buy into what is shaping up to be the newest round of doom and gloom predictions for Nintendo as they bring their characters to mobile games and people start assuming their handhelds are dead?

Just as the «mainstream» have skillfully used the media to get the message of impending doom across with a continuous barrage of ever - increasing disaster predictions, a similar media blitz in the other direction will be needed.

So please stop using the impending «model predicted doom» as an excuse for your inability to match the trajectory of various global climate parameters with predictions.

I therefore predict, quite confidently, that the Earth will never get more than slightly over halfway to the doom - and - gloom prediction of carbon dioxide doubling before it comes down on its own because burning fuel for power or heat becomes as passe as TV antennas on rooftops — reaching for a signal that is no longer there...

25 years of collecting unreliable (at best) and «noisy» temperature data from all over the face of the world, computer modeling over an even smaller span of years by people working on government grants and there you have it folks, predictions of gloom and doom for our planet with «information» extrapolated from 1850 to 2300 with all sorts of «modeled» graphs and pretty «manufactured» pictures offered as proof.

SINCE Copenhagen the intensity of doom and gloom [D&G] has been ratcheted up with such anthropogenic global warming luminaries as Will Steffan and David Karoly declaring their previous predictions not dire enough and so have been superseded by much worse predictions.

It was also the start of the «It isn't a prediction, it's a «projection»... When, a few years later, all their «end of life as we know it» doom and gloom running out of everything computer predictions didn't happen, they published «Limits the Sequel» or «Limits To Growth, the Rewrite» or whatever they titled it and have been squawking every since that they didn't actually make any real predictions so they couldn't be wrong.

Maybe he actually believes it and he has been taken in by his advisers such as John Holdren, who has been a serial doom monger since the seventies (needless to say, none of his predictions came to pass).

I think the projections for decades into the future will prove as sound as Malthus» projections, the great whale oil crisis of the mid-19th century, the terrible horse manure health crisis projected for cities in the early 20th century, Paul Ehrlich's predictions of doom, and the disappearance of snow and ice in the world that plagues us in 2015.

But as we have argued here at the Think Tank, the legal market continues to show resiliency in the face of numerous doom - and - gloom predictions over the past few years.

However, I believe that they will not be nearly as disruptive as claimed by the gloom and doom predictions of late.

This time of year yields more Apple doom predictions than New Year's resolutions, so it's no surprise that Apple analysts have been naming 2016 as the year iPhone sales finally fall off a cliff.