Sentences with phrase «collapse of a lost world»

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Prokudin - Gorskii's opportunity to travel through this empire taking color photographs for posterity (that is to say, for us), shortly before this empire collapsed, captured vivid images of a lost world, much as if someone had had the opportunity to travel the length and breadth of the Roman empire before it succumbed.

Quantum particles can exist in a superposition of states, yet as soon as quantum particles are «touched» by the outside world, they lose this quantum strangeness and collapse to a classically permitted state.

Curtis's free - floating anxieties are intended to connect up with our fears about the collapsing economy, about the safety of the world and our families, but Nichols never loses sight of the small - scale human dramas at the film's core

Joe sez: Some people believe the ease of self - publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.

Developed by three - man studio Whole Hog Games in southern California, Full Bore is an open - world, pixel - style, exploratory block puzzler in which the character, a young boar, must dig through collapsing mines, mysterious laboratories, and technological ruins to reclaim the lost past of boarkind.

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

Rising concern about global warming, the reaction against lost jobs in rich countries, worries about food safety and security, and the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva last week also signal that political and environmental concerns may make the calculus of globalization far more complex.

Had the West earlier become a major energy exporter, these hostile economies would have lost their chief markets and the bulk of their revenues, particularly since prices would also have collapsed in a world awash in energy.

Now, we have to deal with an emboldened Russia; apparently nostalgic for the old Soviet days (another creature spawned from the First World War), and bent on regaining territory it lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

TOKYO — When Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange, collapsed in early 2014, more than 24,000 customers around the world lost access to hundreds of millions of dollars» worth of cryptocurrency and cash.

But, short of Armageddon or the collapse of the world economy, what happens if the market crashes or the breadwinner loses his or her job?