Sentences with phrase «death throes of»

The death throes of the Wynne government show that the people and the business sector can't tolerate this behaviour and that a new, fresh attitude toward open markets and small business success must happen.

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

But he sees a silver lining in them: «These are the death throes of a wounded opposition,» he said.

Luckily, Square Enix realised years ago that this game likely wouldn't be released until the death throes of our universe, so they began putting together HD remasters of past Kingdom Hearts games to enjoy on PS3.

At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.

In hindsight, this tumultuous period — of hedonism and racial tensions, excess and fear, progress and resistance — hastened the death throes of a country on the brink of financial disaster and of a world on the brink of war.

This is a great statement because it emphasizes how we're witnessing the death throes of the traditional eBook.

But the few times Greek does hit, it gets off some pointed, witty zingers at the expense of the degradation of pop culture, celebrity self - involvement, and the death throes of corporate music.

These explosions, called type 2 supernovas, mark the death throes of a star having a mass of between eight and about 50 times that of our sun.

These momentary flares are Gamma - Ray Bursts (GRBs), the death throes of some massive stars.

When the mirror stops moving, it should create a sudden burst of energy, similar to the death throes of a black hole.

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

The press room began to buzz as AlphaGo played increasingly bizarre moves, the death throes of an algorithm.

Early on Still was tasked with keeping vigil, with recording the death throes of the astral beasts he studied.

This is the fate of all stars with masses between about one and eight times that of the Sun (see «The death throes of a red giant», New Scientist, 24 March 1990).

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.

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

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.

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.

A SUPERNOVA that burst onto the cosmic scene in April 2007 was probably the death throes of the most massive star yet discovered.

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

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.»

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

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

This gives him the «courage to renounce anxiety... which only faith is capable of — not that it annihilates anxiety, but remaining ever young, it is continually developing itself out of the death throes of anxiety» (p. 104).

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

So when we experience the death - throes of the deconstruction of our faith and beliefs and experience confusion, how do we take care of the spiritual lives of our own children?

Staten Island has been in the throes of a prescription pill and heroin epidemic, with the borough having the highest rate of accidental overdose deaths in the city between 2000 and 2014, according to the Department of Health.

What we saw in Falkirk» - the Labour leader concluded, as recently as July - «is part of the death - throes of the old politics».

Staten Island is in the throes of a prescription drug epidemic with the borough having the highest rate of opioid OD deaths in the city.

«Sensing that PDP is in the throes of death, he is contemplating dumping the party for APC, but there is no place for him in APC as he is only looking for an escape route from prosecution for his various infractions on the law since his first aborted tenure as governor,» he explained.

Mr Miliband said the Falkirk controversy represented «part of the death - throes of the old politics», and he hoped to usher in an «open, transparent and trusted» system which would engage more union members directly in the party.

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.

The centre of the galaxy looks to be lit up by the death - throes of dark matter.

«Already it is transforming our understanding of the universe, with a fresh narrative of the physics of stars in their death throes,» said France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, which funds LIGO.

The star is a bloated red giant, residing 1,200 light - years away, which has probably shed at least half of its mass into space during its death throes.

In this case, the most recent simulations are uncannily similar to the explosive behavior of stars in their death throes witnessed by scientists.

The models shows the chaotic and messy details of a star's death throes.

Since its launch, Hubble has reshaped our view of space, with scientists writing thousands of papers based on the telescope's clear - eyed findings on important stuff like the age of the universe, gigantic black holes or what stars look like in the throes of death.

Also evident are concentric rings around the object, the result of material being periodically tossed out in the star's final death throes.

As an alien sun blazes through its death throes, it is apparently vaporizing a surrounding swarm of comets, releasing a huge cloud of water vapor.

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When the Spotlight investigation is temporarily halted in the wake of 9/11, we're reminded that the film is also a period piece, set during a time when print journalism had not yet entered its death throes.