Sentences with phrase «becomes wasteland»

Preserving the biological productivity of highly erodible cropland depends on planting it in grass or trees before it becomes wasteland.

The vineyard becomes wasteland.

The area around the mountain became a wasteland: Roadways were swallowed and bridges damaged.

Returning to their homeland, they discover it has become a wasteland of plague and pestilence.

Amazon would become a wasteland of $ 3 - $ 7 books earning illegitimate 4 - 5 star ratings from ignorant hillbillies and sockpuppets.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

As a result, websites have become a wasteland of lost marketing potential.

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The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands.

They've been forced to evolve and re-invent themselves or risk becoming yet another abandoned retail wasteland.

The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

But if you remain within the framework of critical thinking decade after decade after decade, and you can stay in it your whole life, it becomes a very arid place in which to live when it's wedded to the framework of modernity, and it becomes a desolate place, T.S. Eliot's wasteland.

I was already tired because I had been up nursing during the night, Brian was off at work already, I simply wanted a quiet morning with my coffee because there was so much mundane work ahead on this day — cleaning bathrooms, doing laundry — but instead the Rice Krispies multiplied to biblical proportions while they flew through the air and one small cereal bowl became a nuclear wasteland scattered into seemingly every corner of the kitchen while milk streamed off the edge of the table puddling into the carnage and the bowl continued to spin.

Los Angeles became the country's second-most populous city because of brilliantly engineered water projects that transported rivers of water to parched Southern California from the north and east, while also transforming the Central Valley from a wasteland to the nation's bread basket.

It may become a place in which the integrity of creation of which the World Council of Churches speaks and toward which Christians rightly exercise respect, may become a mere wasteland of disintegration.

Such barbarism becomes only but a foible of dastardism's wastelands.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

It has turned into a proxy war between the USA and Russia, and in the process Syria is becoming a bombed - out wasteland that has precipitated a humanitarian catastrophe with unwanted refugees pouring into Europe and providing a staging ground for ISIS and other terrorist factions.

«Long after our own plain yellow sun expands to become a red giant star and turns Earth into a sizzling hot wasteland, there are still regions in our solar system — and other solar systems as well — where life might thrive,» says Kaltenegger.

If inflamed, as in Dylan's case, nothing can come in and out, so the cell becomes a toxic wasteland and illness results.

But vintage shopping can also be a endless wasteland that becomes a vacuum for your time and money.

[font = Arial][color = darkred] In the vast wasteland the summer has become of mediocrity and sub-mediocrity go to your local art house.

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.

The Church became the all - powerful theocracy ruling over walled cities scattered across a «Mad Max» wasteland.

In the distant future, the Earth has become a dense wasteland after years of battle.

Viewed today, through the prism of De Niro's more recent exploits, this shot becomes a kind of metaphorical time - lapse of the actor's post-millennium career; beginning at the turn of the century with Analyse This and Meet the Parents and ending in the barren comedic wasteland of Dirty Grandpa.

Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the series centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually - moving train that circles the globe.

This startling documentary explores a part of America few even want to admit exists: a place designed as a paradise that has instead become an almost apocalyptic wasteland populated by people who have fallen out...

After some early ports of Street Fighter and Tekken, the 3DS's fighting landscape has become a barren wasteland.

Buzzing along towards impending disappointment, the camera eyes static horizon shots, with endless stretches of bleak farmland serving as visual commentary of the washed up wasteland that industry America has become.

Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa (Charlize Theron).

SNOWPIERCER Picked up to series STUDIO: Tomorrow Studios / Studio T / CJ Entertainment TEAM: Marty Adelstein (ep), Becky Clements (ep), Bong Joon - ho (ep), Park Chan - wook (ep), Lee Tae - hun (ep) Dooho Choi (ep),, Scott Derrickson (d, ep) LOGLINE: Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe, the program questions class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival.

Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa.

They'll be trapped in a high - tech, perpetually - in - motion super-train that houses the last vestiges of humanity and endlessly travels around the world, which has become a frozen, uninhabitable wasteland.

The series, based on the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film, takes place seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and centers on a small band of people who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe.

These are the dog days of New York in the 1970s, long before the LES became a high - rent district (even if it wasn't quite the John Carpenter-esque wasteland depicted here), and Hilly imagines he can bring a little bit of country to the bowels of the Bowery.

«Snowpiercer,» based on the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film, takes place seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and centers on a small band of people who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe.

As he wanders the wasteland, he meets and befriends Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin), the man fans know will someday become Connor's father.

But one of the most memorable featured the funniest cameo of the year — People Magazine's Sexiest Man of 2012, Channing Tatum, pulling off a mask (above) to reveal he has become Danny McBride's sex - slave gimp in order to survive in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that Los Angeles has become.

Broderick is but one of many tumbleweeds that wheel haphazardly, aimlessly, through the desolate wasteland of entertainment that this ultimately becomes: Ed Harris, Steve Coogan, Oliver Platt, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Paul Schneider and the aforementioned Annette Bening all feature but collectively must account for fewer screen minutes than the number of names I just rattled off.

And then there's a scene where Laura finds two little blind brothers in the middle of the wasteland that seems to want to evoke a Jodorowsky mindscape (Herzog has said the film is meant to be a «daydream» that follows no cinematic rules), but because there's all that awful and redundant talking, it becomes something like a parody of Herzog's documentaries.

It's hundreds of years in the future and planet earth has become an inhabitable wasteland from nuclear war.

«The Wasteland lends itself incredibly well to the high level of player freedom with which Avalanche Studios has become synonymous.

The survey — which included 1200 respondents from a number of countries where this has increasingly become a problem — reveals this new hazardous wasteland trend is in - part the result of cheap tents — 46 % surveyed paid less than # 75, and 60 % said they left their tent because it was broken.

Constructed on industrial wasteland left over from a steelworks, Rockingham first opened in January 2001, and became one of only a few purpose - built racetracks in the country — and the first banked oval built since Brooklands, in 1907.

Much of the game's plot is dedicated to introducing you quite a few different characters, many of which become playable members of your party as you trudge across the icy wasteland.

In a future where cars are obsolete, the Gunbrick has become a worldwide sensation!The Gunbrick - A gun one side... a shield on the other.Encounter wasteland mutants, crazed nerds, law enforcement and all manner of cube based adversaries.

I can't even express enough how much I loved that 1990 title, and the explanation of the witch Mizrabel and the castle becoming part of the Wasteland due it it becoming «forgotten» Disney is so common sense perfect that I've been scouring the internet daily in hopes of news, videos, more screenshots, anything.

The radioactive waste in the world allows mutants to get ahead by mutating new limbs on the fly and the abundant availability of powerful weaponry makes the quest to become the ruler of the Wasteland one fraught with peril.

«The Wasteland lends itself incredibly well to the high level of player freedom with which Avalanche Studios has become synonymous.