Sentences with phrase «great plague»

During the Ort sunspot minimum, Seine, Rhine and Po were frozen (Rhine from Nov. 15, 1076 to April 7, 1077); during the minimum of Wolf, the 1315 - 1316 famine reduced western Europe population by more than 5 % and the subsequent great plague (1347 - 1350) by 30 % to 50 %; the Maunder minimum saw in France an excess death of 1.3 M on 22 M habitants (1693 - 1694); in the following years 30 % on the Finnish population (1696 - 1697), 25 % of the Scottish population (1696 - 1699) and 10 % of the French population (1708 - 1709) died.

A great plague has enveloped the city in a fog of death.

For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded the city in a fog of death.

For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death.

For only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

But how long willFor only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

My father, the illustrious Isaac Newton, having abandoned his studies at Trinity College to escape the great plague of 1665, was spending the summer at his...

For only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

The DNA of bubonic plague bacteria, blamed for Europe's great plague of 1348, has turned up in victims of a plague that shook the Roman world in AD 541

The great plague expert Wu Lien - teh and his associates established during the Third Pandemic that bubonic plague was not transmitted from person to person; it required a bite from the Y. pestis - infected flea to transmit the disease.

Patrick's research begins on an elemental level, showing you the science behind disease and aging, then bridges the gap between the problem and the potential solution — taking you inside the labs where possible remedies to the great plagues of our time could be taking shape.

What's a few cigarette butts in the parking lot when you're taking a stand as the community of Jesus on one of the great plagues of our time?

But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

In my opinion, the single greatest plague facing traders is trading a system or even a hand - trading methodology without enough capital.

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That question has plagued a great many people trying to decide whether to buy a current independent business, a franchise, or what we'll refer to in this text as a business opportunity.

Research shows workers who launched careers during the Great Recession are plagued with anxieties much less prevalent among older colleagues.

Lately, however, I've been thinking a great deal about all the confusion that continues to plague our entrepreneurial yet highly regulated industry.

The recovery from the Great Recession has been plagued by tepid wage growth of about 2 % a year.

We're talking about the Great Flood, the plagues on Egypt, because that is what we deserve for defying God's will.

If the Egyptian Gods were as great as believed, none of the plagues could have happened.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

Rev 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Brueggemann is one who has given extended attention to Israel's «unsolicited» testimony that the God who creates is also a God who can and does wreak destruction.35 Beyond the wholesale destruction brought on by the Great Flood comes the devastating of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their inhabitants (Gen. 19:24 — 25) and the unleashing of a host of plagues against all of Egypt, guilty and [14] innocent alike (Ex.

It is a great advance when people who have been powerless and plagued by apathy or fatalism organize to improve their lot, and this means creating instruments of political and economic power that enable their interests to be felt by the community at large.

Already the country falls prey to new threats — when I was last there a plague of mosquitoes was spreading dengue fever, relatively new to the country but estimated by the World Health Organization to he the great emergent disease of this century as growing warmth and moisture expand the range of Aedes egyptii, the mosquito in question.

But this crippling adjunct to my hearing impairment remains, and I continue to be plagued by a desire to conserve my emotional and spiritual resources — which I resist with great difficulty.

As in the earlier narrative of the plagues, there is sounded again the great cry «such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again» (vs. 6).

It is not surprising that it was through a study of Paul that Martin Luther, who had plagued his body in order to be sure of eternal salvation by the statutory methods of medieval religion, found a great burden fall from his shoulders, when he rediscovered the role of faith in bringing freedom to men.

I am plagued by a sense that my greatest creativity, my greatest ideas were in those drafts.

But in what should be a great tournament, the most intriguing team could beturmoil - plagued Russia

It would be a great pity to saddle Iwobi with plagues of injury.

If he does and we see the Jack that was England's star man in qualifying he could feature for the rest of the tournament and that would be a great boost for him after two more injury plagued seasons and could help him be ready to finally show Arsenal fans how good we sometimes forget he is.

Kenny Dalglish is also keen to beef up his defensive options and given that Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Jamie Carragher are both over 30 and that Daniel Agger is plagued with knocks a move to bring in further central defensive options makes a great deal of sense and the Liverpool manager has identified Scott Dann as a potential target.

trade him to the Angels for Maitan, who will develop into a great hitter and plague the Braves for ten years.

Although I do not think he will start regularly in the Premier League, he is a great player to have in your squad should injuries plague your defence.

I feel great and have never been tired - something that is supposed to plague new moms.

It is as if you have written every thought that has plagued my mind for the past few months, ill feel great and confident about it for days, even weeks at a time and then one night she'll wake me up several times throughout the night to nurse and cries everytime I try to unlatch.

UKIP has been plagued by infighting in the past, and now that Farage appears to have become a divisive figure, the greatest threat for the party is, once more, internal disunity.

But by early 1983, the scandals plaguing this program had become so great that an Executive Budget proposal to completely eliminate it was readily adopted by both houses of the Legislature.

But he pointed out: «A plague on both your houses is a great tune to play in politics.

One of Inwood's greatest strengths is that it has historically been affordable to working - and middle - class New Yorkers, many of whom stuck it out through the tough years of the 1980s & early»90s when drug - related crime plagued our neighborhood.

McCray in a Jezebel blog interview said closing the violence - plagued detention complex is a «great idea» because of its mental health treatment failings.

The GOP House and Senate committees have spent a great deal of time Tuesday pressuring Democrats to give up donations they've received from Tweet - scandal plagued Anthony Weiner.

Ebola, smallpox, plague — the rogue's gallery of highly infectious deadly pathogens is frighteningly long and their potential for havoc is great, which is why they can only be studied within the tightly controlled confines of a biosafety level 4 (BSL4) facility.

However, while they are valuable tools in a broad range of fields, predictive models are still plagued by uncertainties, or errors, and a great deal of effort is directed at determining the extent and effects of these errors.

On the opposite side of the globe from Bale, on North America's Great Plains, Rocke's lab is testing an oral vaccine to protect prairie dogs and endangered ferrets from plague.

Saving plague - ridden prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) is an indirect way to protect the real target: an endangered predator, black - footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) of the Great Plains.

The thousands of skeletons originally interred from the mid-16th through 18th centuries at the Bedlam burial ground are expected to provide researchers with unparalleled information about a formative time for London that included the English Civil Wars, Restoration, the last major plague outbreak and The Great London Fire of 1666.

The plague has caused death and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 years.

Evidence from tree rings collected near modern - day Mexico City confirms Rodolfo Acuña - Soto's hypothesis: The years of the greatest Aztec plagues were preceded by years of exceptional drought.