Sentences with phrase «down on civilization»

Both have two major driving motivations: maintain present lifestyle and, for a small sub-set of each, profit to the maximum from this final Windfall before the curtain comes down on our civilization.

Preparing to live through the global climate change now bearing down on our civilization will be an enormous undertaking.

In his last books he was bitterly anti-war and very much down on civilization and, yes, those are downer feelings and many people didn't like them.

Not exact matches

And so he comes down on the side of civilization or culture as the key.

Don't get pinned down on just one little atrocity, don't forget the wiping out of entire civilizations in the early days.

Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has condemned the actions of some hoodlums who burnt down the state High Court in Ilesa, describing it as a major assault on civilization.

When a civilization - ending space rock bears down on us, this nuclear option might just save our species.

When plate tectonics has completely rearranged the continents, when all the present landforms on the earth have been ground down, when civilization has been profoundly transformed and when human beings may have evolved into some other kind of organism, these plaques will still exist.

Following the Lost model, Burke is stuck on an island of civilization in the mountains, but the model breaks down when it becomes clear that there is nothing mystical about Wayward Pines.

• Early Egyptian religion has had a profound impact / Influence on future civilizations Procedure: 1) You will be placed in a group by your instructor 2) you will travel to a station and begin your investigation (15 minutes at each station) 3) In your group you will discuss how religion has affected Egypt Socially, Politically, or economically 4) On your graphic organizer you will provide a theme for your reasoning (single idea / though / word / s) 5) On your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizationon future civilizations Procedure: 1) You will be placed in a group by your instructor 2) you will travel to a station and begin your investigation (15 minutes at each station) 3) In your group you will discuss how religion has affected Egypt Socially, Politically, or economically 4) On your graphic organizer you will provide a theme for your reasoning (single idea / though / word / s) 5) On your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizationOn your graphic organizer you will provide a theme for your reasoning (single idea / though / word / s) 5) On your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizationOn your graphic organizer you will cite specific evidence from the sources 6) On your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizationOn your graphic organizer you will discuss how you can connect that information to a historical event / time or a personal connection 7) On your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizationOn your graphic organizer you will write down some of your thought / your inner monologue (thoughts / opinions / questions / ideas) you had when you were reading 8) You will move onto the next station Focus Question: How did Egyptian Religion affect its civilization / culture as well as future civilizations?

Zhao uses what happened to Easter Island's Rapa Nui civilization that led to their extinction as an analogy for what may happen to us post Race to the Top, given both sets of people are / were driven by false hopes of the gods raining down on them prosperity, should they successfully compete for success and praise.

«Now, at night, if you look out over the valley of Oaxaca, cradle of the Zapotec civilization, you will see stars above the dark and ancient mountains, shadows of pyramids on the ridges, maybe the moon rising behind — and down by the baseball stadium, the great golden chichis of Santa McDona.»

To make 24K a year or 2K a month (taxes are not included) would mean 10 % a month on a 20K account which would be almost impossible on a long run (show me a hedge - fund with that performance)- What do you do on draw down months - 3 months no profit would mean you're 8K behind - you wont make a living wit ha 20K account in a western civilization and normal lifestyle.

For all of you out there with a hankering for Sid Meier's own take on the board game RISK, Civilization VI is down to a rather lovely low price of # 27.99 right now, as a boxed edition from GAME.

Online services for «select legacy titles» including; Borderlands on the PC and the Civilization catalog will temporarily be shutting down until 2K Games transitions to Valve's Steamworks.

Online services for Borderlands and Civilization Revolution on the PS3 will be shutting down beginning May 31.

What we need to do is POWER DOWN industrial civilization to a fraction of current levels then focus on making sure everyone is OK.

Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

«We are facing a breakdown of civilization if the power grid goes down,» North predicted in late 1999, boasting, «I was the only person saying this on a Web site in early 1998, although a few sites do today.»

And if we don't take urgent action NOW to quickly end our GHG emissions and draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess CO2, then AGW is likely to have horrific effects on the entire biosphere that will go far beyond merely ending human civilization.