Sentences with phrase «civilisation like»

An assessment of Earth's biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock - on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food

Hence, Europe is a pseude - civilisation like its predecessor with a pseudo-church (the RCC).

Belize sounds like my kind of place Ancient civilisations like the Mayans and the Aztecs have always fascinated me and that pyramid looks magical.

Brainiac is a collector at the mercy of a neverending quest for knowledge, which he pursues forcefully by shrinking and bottling other planets and civilisations like an over-zealous pickling enthusiast, destroying all remnants in the process.

Not exact matches

Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.

If we consider the great civilisations of the past such as those of Egypt and Greece, India and China, we find great achievements in art and architecture, philosophy and drama, but nothing remotely like our own civilisation.

«At the same time, like primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods, many governments, including Australia's former Labor government, used the biased research to pursue «green» gesture politics.

Musee de la Civilisation is a fun, interactive museum with out - of - the - box kids» exhibits that, with the clever help of mirrors, allow them to do things like climb or fall from buildings.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

When I emerge from the liberal bubble in which I spend most of my time, views like «but we gave them the railways / civil service / civilisation» are all too common.

On 12 April 1922, he spoke of: «the brood of vipers and adders which threatens the catastrophic collapse of civilisation», talking about how they had «wormed their way into the upper classes», «spreading like a pestilence».

I strongly believe that it is in challenging times like these that people have been forced out of their comfort zones to create new economies, new opportunities and enhance the course of modern civilisation.»

«A cold, desolate, lifeless place, light years from civilisation... it sounds like the Tory backbenches.»

Like Civilisation, the model breaks the world into squares — or in this case the Eurasian continent — and characterises them according to the type of land present, how mountainous it was, and if it was farmed.

«You suddenly have a new key for unlocking how that civilisation functioned and what its history was like,» he says.

Other scenarios the team explored include artificial rings of space debris, revealing a civilisation that has fallen victim to a Gravity - like space junk cascade on a grand scale, or the total destruction of the planet.

Further to the discussion of what civilisation would look like without fossil fuels (18 October, p 34), we forget that...

A Carrington - like event may be dangerous to our technological civilisation, but obviously there has not been a superflare capable of wiping out life on Earth for billions of years.

It may sound more like a conspiracy theory than a subject for a scientific inquiry but scientists have posed a fascinating question about the timeline of Earth's inhabitants: was another industrial civilisation on Earth before humans?

The widely accepted tenet that there was a close relationship between physical health and mental power facilitated the growth of fitness throughout ancient Greece — and this was a civilisation that prized physical perfection like no other in history.

There is evidence of an early civilisation in Armenia in the Bronze Age and earlier Like the Bosporan Kingdom, the history of Armenia stretches from the Golden Age of Greece through the Hellenistic Period to protracted status as a Roman

For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).

As the title of the film suggests, the descent of a civilisation is created right from the opening shot, with the camera panning over the treetops like an American eagle descending over Camp David.

Especially while living in a place like this, where any true sense of civilisation has yet to take root.

The exception will only apply to «minority languages and other small entry subjects», like Russian, Latin, Classical Civilisation and Mandarin, for example.

Although Dream Lodge is situated in the foothills of the Magaliesberg Mountains, it feels like it's miles away from civilisation.

Will our first contact with an alien civilisation be like this?

In fact, it's mainly domestic pet cats for one very simple reason: there are very few people in the arid, so - called conservation areas where wild born feral cats actually are a major threat to native wildlife, so there aren't many to witness what real feral cat predation looks like, there's not much white civilisation or infrastructure out there, either, comparatively speaking.

Like the majority of Central America, Belize features many wonderful testaments to the ancient Maya civilisation.

Various species of sea birds like the crested cormorant and the Eleanor falcon live in this coastline away from civilisation where there are also unusul endemic flowers that shoot up between the rocks.

It's like a fast - paced, real - time, sci - fi version of Civilisation, albeit far more limited in its scope.

Expanding your city is done by connecting new buildings together, creating a strange hodge - podge of civilisation that usually ends up looking like it was designed by a drunkard who firmly believes he's the greatest architect in the world despite being unable to figure out how his own front door works.

Initially, Aporia seems to fit into the walking - simulator genre, a game based primarily around the exploration of a fallen civilisation, but it doesn't take long before you're solving puzzles and even dealing with an enemy that floats around like the much angrier version of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Even its juggernauts, the like of Civilisation V for example, don't have the wide ranging appeal enjoyed by many other genres, although admittedly its layers go far beyond the likes of Advance Wars or Final Fantasy Tactics.

Kingdom takes the epic, sprawling kingdom building of games like Civilisation and compacts it into a tiny, pixellated, side - scrolling game where, as the ruling monarchy, your primary method of interaction is to hurl money at things and let the peasants take care of the rest.

Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Noio, Licorice Publisher: Raw Fury Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Kingdom takes the epic, sprawling kingdom building of games like Civilisation and compacts it into a tiny, pixellated, side - scrolling game where, as the ruling monarchy, your primary method of interaction is to hurl money -LSB-...]

I like XCOM 2's visuals — the architecture of the new human / alien civilisation is surprisingly lovely, masking the iron fist beneath.

In games like Civilisation V I often only need help with a few areas of the game — like balancing my economy, say — but enjoy more challenge in diplomacy or city management.

all civilisation has been sucked into a portal taking them to the alternate universe facing them with foul, undead zombie - like «creatures.»

Set in the distant future where dinosaur - like robots roam the earth and human civilisation has crumbled long ago, you play as Aloy, a tribal hunter trying to make her way in this post-apocalyptic world.

It seems beasts like Trico were common and were revered by this ancient civilisation, based on the Trico statues you can find later on in the game.

An outcast at birth, practically as soon as she comes of age and acceptance into the Nora, she is forced to take on the burden of venturing out from their idyllic Shire - like Embrace and into the wider world, with other tribes and clashing cultures that have sprung up since the fall of civilisation and the rise of the machines.

BBC Civilisations AR Ancient history seems like a good match for augmented reality, bringing dusty relics and important artifacts to life in a way few platforms can match.

Music simulation, music creation games, rhythm / action music games, dance games, karaoke, exercise aids, meditation aids (a small genre admittedly), vehicle simulation, social network Second Life stuff, Tetris, videogames that mimic traditional board and card games, games where you only avoid danger but never hurt anyone, farming games, games where you manage a business, games where you create and manage a family or a hospital or even a civilisation, sex simulation, dating games, art creation, cooking guides, brain training, pet caring, extreme sports like skateboarding or biking or freerunning, all sorts of puzzle and collecting games, games where you navigate mazes and obstacles, pinball, nonviolent detective and adventure or rpg games, interactive films or books.

I have always loved games like «The Settlers» and «Civilisation» and for all those who have not played the Anno series of games, Anno Online is much like these style games.

The pieces may appear like artefacts of a past civilisation, fossils from another planet or the ornaments of fabled beings.»

Rajk looks like a crumbling remnant of an ancient civilisation, his limbs stunted, his face caved in.

The project (20 June - 30 September 2017) transports Figa, the left hand of the sphinx - like monument of the A Subtlety installation from its «new world» location at the Domino Sugar Factory in New York to Greece, the birthplace of Western civilisation.

In the age of Trump, they seem like relics from a lost civilisation

Nobson is like Hieronymus Bosch meets Le Corbusier's Ville Radieuse — a surreal struggle between order and chaos, civilisation and barbarity, sanity and madness.