Sentences with phrase «death throes»

I suspect that David Cameron will preside over the final death throes of a union that has gone beyond its shelf life.

And Fleischer's imagery is punctuated with grotesque grace notes in the otherwise elegant imagery, from bank patrons doubling up in death throes when the trigger - happy robbers fire on the bystanders to the Amish family trussed and taped and lined up like victims of some perverse torture.

The Peoples Democratic Party says the APC is passing through death throes and pre-election traumas, adding that its leaders are in frenzy over the baggage of «an unpopular presidential candidate» ahead of the 2019 general elections.

It and other operational observatories are already looking for ripples from the violent death throes of massive stars and from collisions of city - size orbs of degenerate matter called neutron stars.

Even though he wrote «cruel things» about the mainline churches as he documented the minor drama of their self - inflicted death throes, he «remained one of the faithful, in a pretty faithless age.»

Thankfully religion is dying and creationists are simply in their desperate death throes.

With unblinking eye, John foresees the long death throes of Rome and its global tentacles.

But then it began to run out of fuel and entered its stormy death throes, swelling to 100 times its previous size and brightening 10,000-fold, before shedding its outer layers and shriveling to a glowing cinder the size of Earth.

Metals arise in the nuclear furnaces of stars, whose death throes spew them into space.

Hudson's tearful calls to the heavens are one thing, but Jones's ridiculous death throes sound for the world like porn - queen moans dubbed over footage of a big giant hambone in a bad wig and filthy bedclothes.

In 1985, a movie opened that tells the story of a frankly sexual attraction between two young people, with scenes that include the bloody death throes of a stabbing victim, as well as skinny - dipping with frontal, flapping male nudity that's still not exactly common in mainstream cinema.

But Vogt - Roberts is the one who came up with the idea to set «Kong: Skull Island» in 1973, against a backdrop of political protests, cultural revolution, White House turmoil and the lingering death throes of an unsuccessful, costly war.

Oldroyd films the impassive Katherine and terrified Anna's subsequent silent meal in a long, static shot that's as chillingly detached as Katherine herself, soundtracked only by the old man's agonized offscreen death throes.

If the film has an antagonist it is Harge with his braying, undignified, vengeful death throes.

They are merely mitigating the end of the petro - chemical economy... but it's in it's death throes unfortunately.

-- Dennis Kennedy listed his technology trends for 2008, including the possible death throes of e-mail.

Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS - the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML - based apps - a final death throe in the mobile OS wars.

This photo of the galaxy ngc 55 shows the birth and death throes of hundreds of stars.

It has also created tighter criteria for deciding when these projects should be put to rest, assembling a new group — called the Foundry — designed to steer moonshots through the life - or - death throes.

Amanda Marcotte thinks that the «Christian Right» have correctly identified their adversaries, and that the religious reaction — increasingly, she thinks, played out in the public square — amounts to the death throes of an old order.

Like a coroner's report, it helps us understand the philosophy that induced the death throes of Western civilization in the Sixties.

Before November 8, numerous voices suggested that the Religious Right was in its death throes and that no intervention could resuscitate it.

What we are seeing now are the death throes of another bygone era, just another form of segregation being laid to rest.

All gods die.This is just the death throes of christianity.How many religions and gods has man created in our short time on this planet and how many have died?Christianity had it's run and has lost its purpose and been changed so many times since its formation.Mans true religion is power / control and money / goods and always has been.We just keep repackaging it and moralizing it, same crap in a different bag!

Are these birth pangs or are they death throes?

Its the death throes of old time religion that is still making the stink.

These powers have been dethroned, the dragon has been mortally wounded, but in his death throes he can be even more dangerous than before.

The campaign revealed both the death throes of an old political order and the birth pangs of a new one.

The extreme right is in its death throes.

Religion is thankfully in its death throes.

With this leven their teaching swept over Hinduism, bringing balm and healing to a nation gasping in its death throes under the horrors of an alien invasion.

12:12 - Cameron describes the PM's arguments as the death throes of a dying government.

So, far from our union being an anachronism or in its death throes, we can be a beacon for the world,» he writes.

We are witnessing the death throes of prohibition while its advocates make a desperate and frantic last stand, their final frenzy.

Miliband will say that Falkirk represented «the death throes of the old politics» and that he wants to build «a better Labour party — and build a better politics for Britain.»

The massive star had shed some weight, but it wasn't experiencing its death throes.

These explosions mark the death throes of a star between eight and about 50 times the mass of the sun (SN: 2/18/17, p. 24), and typically glow for about 100 days before starting to dim.

Arcavi thinks that Eta Carinae, which isn't yet in its death throes, could someday turn into a supernova like iPTF14hls.

The burst, called GRB 090423 (after the date it was first seen), appears to signal the death throes of a massive star in the very early universe, just 630 million years after the big bang, according to NASA.

It's possible the supernova slammed into debris that had been ejected during its death throes, energising the material and causing it to glow.

By KEN CROSWELLAstronomers who probe the death throes of stars are having a successful run.

But the death throes of the shelf's northern half — 3250 km2 have broken off since 31 January — is «spectacular in terms of the area and speed,» says Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado, Boulder.