Sentences with phrase «far from the catastrophe»

The EAA model — direct - run schools with limited reliance on chartering and a high - tech approach — is far from the catastrophe that some critics claim.

We would be being a little sentimental of our younger days to announce Sonic's latest as a classic game, but it's certainly far from the catastrophe that others seemed to find so much enjoyment in claiming it to be.

Not exact matches

Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half «dead, and then, in terror, shudders with dread at the very mention of the name of the «sea»; who swears he'll never sail again, who raves he'll stay home, even on the calmest days, but then, in time, forgets his fearful ways, and seeks, again, his fortune above the waves; I, too, have barely escaped the storms that revolve around you, my love, traveling far away, vowing to avoid another catastrophe, but I can't; the thought of you breaks my resolve, and so, I return to where, on that fateful day, Inearly drowned in your tempestuous sea.

Approaching Revelation as a prediction of imminent catastrophe is far from how John intended his audience to understand his vision.

Doubling time worldwide, apart from catastrophes far greater than any that have occurred in recent centuries, is likely to be about thirty - five years.

That is a catastrophe from which Labour is still far from recovering.

If any of our descendants escape that catastrophe, they will be able to see another, far greater one looming overhead: the Andromeda galaxy, which just might slam into the Milky Way some 6 billion years from now, to who knows what effect.

The new study published in Scientific Reports, has shown that the tiny creatures, will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes, and be around for at least 10 billion years — far longer than the human race.

So far researchers had assumed that the ecosystems gradually recovered from this catastrophe over a long stretch of eight to nine million years and that large predators at the uppermost end of the food chain were the last to reappear.

It was so prolific of species, the time was called «The Cambrian Explosion» I suppose it's comforting to know that so far life systems can recover from climate catastrophes, even if most of the known species die off (likely including us in the worst case scenario).

Suburbicon, George Clooney's adaptation of a decades - old, unused Coen Brothers screenplay, isn't a catastrophe, but it's far from a triumph either.

First things last and last things first: Suburbicon, George Clooney's adaptation of a decades - old, unused Coen Brothers screenplay, isn't a catastrophe, but it's far from a triumph either.

While some dogs bought from newspaper ads and yard signs are healthy and happy, far too many are ill, poorly socialized, genetically flawed dog - catastrophes waiting to happen.

Far Cry 5 tells the story of Joseph Seed, leader of the cult «Project at Eden's Gate» and megalomaniac who believes God has empowered him to save mankind from an imminent catastrophe known as the Collapse.

Further to the comments by Heiko (# 6) on the economics of [climate change - related] environmental catastrophes, at least from an economist's perspective, but opposite my perspective on my own standard of living:

Various European nations are strugglilng right now with imposing the carbon regulation they think important and are facing bigtime taxpayer revolt in England and counterpressure from some of the most important and vital industries in Europe, so a little touch of the whip here as far as more climate catastrophe will not seem amiss to the bureaucrats of Belgium.

The best that can be said for the catastrophist side is that there is at least some evidence that future warming or changes in sea level or ocean chemistry could be catastrophic, even though this evidence is far from conclusive and is actively contradicting most models that predict catastrophe at present.

And 2 ˚C is far, far too high, given the now clear evidence that at less than 1 ˚C of warming we are already on the precipice of climate catastrophe, from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Himalayas to Siberia.

Although far from perfect, this agreement is based on what science proves: we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground to avoid complete climate catastrophe.