Sentences with phrase «doomsday scenarios like»

While Pathak predicts a decrease in business for firms in the region, he doesn't expect any doomsday scenarios like the ones the Asian market faced in 2001 or with the currency crisis of the late nineties.

The report's authors aren't concerned with sci - fi doomsday scenarios like robots taking over the world, such as in Terminator, but more practical concerns.

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Many are grappling with the calendar - related computer glitches that threaten to disrupt the world on January 1, 2000; others are selling products like freeze - dried foods and water pumps to survivalists who are preparing for doomsday scenarios.

The rest of the lineup features solid - to - excellent players, so it's too easy to get hung up on that troika, but it's not like you have to concoct the ultimate doomsday scenario to get 1,700 combined at - bats of 100 OPS +,.310 OBP and 500 strikeouts.

This seemed like a doomsday scenario for summer - school programming, but the mayor stepped up to maintain the chain of command almost immediately.

Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: «A lot of previous work has focused on «doomsday» scenarios on Earth — astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.

Many environmentalists have been gratified recently to discover that corporations feature climate change in their annual reports, and entrepreneurs make pitches to bankers and hedge fund managers that read like back issues of the environmentalists» own doomsday scenarios.

The word «Rapture» is never uttered but unless you're completely unfamiliar with evangelical Christianity and the doomsday prophecies of the likes of syndication stalwart Jack Van Impe, you'll recognize the scenario.

Some love hunting for trophies / achievements, while others feel like it is a sign of genetic inferiority that needs to go away, or we risk a «doomsday scenario» (yes, those exact words have been used).

And then there is his latest doomsday scenario of human CO2 emission causing global warming so hot that humanity on Earth is wiped out by a Venus - like climate of 250 degrees.

JULIA Gillard has invoked a doomsday - like scenario of metre - high sea level rises and a 2000 km southward shift of Australia's climactic zones as she battles an opposition scare campaign over her proposed carbon tax.

One climate doomsday scenario (among many) that continues to have no basis in climate science reality is the infamous prediction that Gaia will soon have a Venus - like atmosphere and boiling oceans... because of humans fossil fuel use.

Along with real issues like river and lake pollution, there had been Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb, published in 1968; the Club of Rome's book The Limits to Growth, in 1972; and a succession of other doomsday scenarios in the popular press.

Others, like Elon Musk, predict doomsday scenarios if we start using AI in weapons or warfare.