Sentences with phrase «calamitous event»

So at the IPCC estimates of 0.000 -0.019 mm / year, we'll all have to be very patient indeed [22,000 mm divided by 0.000 mm / year is never and that is a very, very long time, and at 0.019 mm / year means 1,160,000 years, which is pretty long too] to see this calamitous event unfold.

Set in the distant future after a calamitous event wiped out the Earth as we know it, Horizon: Zero Dawn finds humanity having reverted to a much more primitive state.

To use the Jamaican slang from Augustown, Kei Miller's excellent new novel, the April 1982 day in which a calamitous event is about to occur is «the day of the autoclaps,» a day of impending disaster, trouble on top of trouble.

In Oops, by Arthur Geisert, a piglet spills his milk, a small incident that leads to one calamitous event after another.

This one is his take on the disaster film, based on an actual near calamitous event.

Towards the end of Michael Haneke's Caché (Hidden, 2005), there is a calamitous event, a moment so terrible and unexpected that it elicits a collective gasp from the audience.

A calamitous event with which Arsenal FC seemed to just crumble away.

We must neither interpret the goodness of God to mean that life will be fair nor that the innocent will not suffer nor that calamitous events will not occur.

With the election of Hillary Clinton seemingly a fait accompli and with the transformation of the US into a one - party state all but assured, it is not too early to begin the soul - searching inevitably provoked by such calamitous events.

Not exact matches

No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than the rise of Islam.

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Past episodes in the earth's history, especially one that occurred about 55 million years ago, featured drastic warming accompanied by sea - level rise and other events that would be calamitous for today's civilization.

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