Sentences with phrase «end of civilisation»

If we are to weather the coming storm of the Tory campaign, backed by hysterical newspaper threats of the «end of civilisation as we know it», then we need to start giving people some hope for their futures.

«inside the House of Lords, dinosaur opponents of the Bill were having a final go at killing it — declaring that gay marriage would be the end of civilisation as we know it.

Billboards were promoted around London, portraying Albania as «the other», the end of the world, a journey back to the middle ages, or the end of civilisation for Britain.

WINDBAG: Without reverting to hyperbole, this is the end of civilisation as we know it.

It was like a trailer for the end of civilisation.

In Victorian times, such individuals even considered anaesthesia during childbirth to be the end of civilisation as they knew it because of a biblical injunction that women ought to give birth in pain.

Antonio Banderas is convinced the human race is living on borrowed time and he's branded the 9/11 atrocity «the end of civilisation as we knew...

The End of Civilisation is a major new commission and we're especially grateful to Arts Council England for their support.»

Douglas Gordon: The End of Civilisation.

This theme continues in various forms throughout the exhibition and comes full circle with Douglas Gordon's work, The End of Civilisation (2012).

The same graph gave us a 5 % chance of exceeding 3.8 C which is near the threshold for the end of civilisation as we know it.

They could lead to the rapid and radical simplification of society, which means, to put it brutally, the end of civilisations and many of the people they support.