Sentences with phrase «for nuclear holocaust»

And there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it, save for a nuclear holocaust.

Jim's by - the - book efforts are no match for nuclear holocaust, however.

Back at home, where Keller's wife, Grace (Maria Bello), and 6 - year - old daughter, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich), safely await his return, the basement is stocked with enough emergency provisions for a nuclear holocaust.

It will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.

«This isn't just for the nuclear holocaust event,» Buddemeier said.

Not exact matches

After so much unexpected loss (savings, houses, discretionary spending), a renewed interest in things that are permanent and reliable is only natural — you might drop $ 800 on a pair handmade John Lobb oxfords, but should the nuclear holocaust hit, those shoes are gonna outlast the cockroaches, which is certainly more than you can say for a trucker cap.

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

The nuclear holocaust held no fears personally for fundamentalists, for they firmly believed that they would be «raptured», that is, taken up into heaven to join the Lord, as described by Paul in I Thessalonians 4:17.

Kaufman indicts two popular Christian nostrums for nuclear fears: the claim that a holocaust is inevitable because of biblical prophecy and the claim that God somehow would never permit the worst to happen.

But for the same reason, unprecedented possibilities of horrendous evil lie ahead if the demonic potential of man is unleashed in a holocaust of nuclear war or if he foolishly populates or pollutes himself to death.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

We know that if the world is to avoid being thrown into the holocaust of a nuclear war, we must not look for a supernatural intervention in the form, say, of a regiment of angels.

The resurrected Lord Jesus offers the inner strength for the long, weary, 20 - year struggle that will be necessary to avoid nuclear holocaust and implement a new international economic order.

The background for the game (the different evolution of the world, the destruction of it by the nuclear holocaust, and the sick and crazy pre-war US

The background for the game (the different evolution of the world, the destruction of it by the nuclear holocaust, and the sick and crazy pre-war US government, Vault - Tec Executives and the Enclave, the struggle of the humanity to survive and put the society back in its rails) is simply amazing.

The story of an artist living an idyllic life by the sea, whose philosophies are shaken to the core by the (implied) onset of World War III, the film winds its way to a grand conclusion, an image of humble apocalypse that, more than glimpses of the tragedies of war or the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, will stay with you for a lifetime.

Even if it means spending the rest of his days locked in Civilis, a tower prison for society's unwanted — «half - humans» gifted by the fallout of nuclear holocaust centuries past.

But if its aesthetic deals with subject matter that is «tragic and timeless,» that subject matter was unique to its times — the holocaust, threat of nuclear annihilation, the subsequent search for meaning.

It's a real bummer, and it makes you yearn for the good old days when all we had to worry about was the quaint threat of nuclear holocaust.

The only historical precedent for a crisis of this depth and scale was the Cold War fear that we were heading toward nuclear holocaust, which would have made much of the planet uninhabitable.

«We face a threat that is nearly unique in its scope and danger (setting aside for the moment the threat of nuclear holocaust),» Professor Smithey wrote, quoting the McGlade - Ekins study.

The specter this time isn't World War III, the Clock's longtime focus — disarmament treaties have slashed the numbers of nuclear warheads to a fraction of their Cold War peak — but a raft of terrifying new threats that, in the Bulletin's estimation, more than make up for the receding menace of nuclear holocaust.

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

It's up for further research to explain, but whatever it may be, it appears that if there's ever a nuclear holocaust, perhaps tardigrades are the best candidates for extreme species survival.

Would Bismarck tie the probability of nuclear holocaust to the possibilities for extremely fast - moving crises in the South China Seas and «the passions of sheep stealers» in places like North Korea?

They have the reputation for being survivors — living through anything from steaming hot water to nuclear holocaust.»