Sentences with phrase «greatest catastrophe»

Scientists from the Arizona State University describe the episode as the «greatest catastrophe in the history of life on Earth.»

Barack Obama's ancestors also endured Ireland's greatest catastrophe and escaped to build new lives in America.

But time is not on their side — the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

This event, called the «Permian - Triassic mass extinction,» represents the greatest catastrophe in the history of life on Earth.

The greatest catastrophe encountered by such systems was not economic.

In any case, one of the great catastrophes of the past decade, and in particular of this recession, is the slippage of today's inner cities back toward the depths of those brutal years.

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

The strenuous and absolute character of Jesus» ethic is explained as owing to his belief in the imminence of the great catastrophe: it was an «interim ethic.»

«They want to take away your guns with the SAFE Act which I call the UnSAFE Act, which is one of the great catastrophes,» said Trump.

«There is no greater catastrophe than that.

How a handful of operators at a crippled reactor averted a greater catastrophe at the Fukushima plant.

Usually after a great catastrophe, news watching is the norm to get as much information as possible but as time wears on, things return to normal as much as possible, which include television viewing patterns.

Now you can mostly set your watch by what the PGA decides is Best Picture and, for the most part, barring some great catastrophe, the Oscar race is over.

The Great Catastrophe.

Probably one of the greatest catastrophes was the death of 21 polo horses in March 2009.

Game Review: Picking up immediately where the original Myst ended, players are presented the privilege, challenge and responsibility of restoring the lost empire of the D'ni — an ancient civilization of people who thrived for thousands of years but later met with a great catastrophe.

The Eld Witch made her claim to fame by bringing great catastrophes upon the world years ago.

It would take a greater catastrophe to move the masses in such a way as you laid out, smaller changes are adaptable.

On the other hand, if the climate scientists are right about AGW happening, and the contrarians are wrong, and we act as if AGW is not happening, then not only will we lose all those other benefits, but we will allow the world to sink into great catastrophe (greater than you may think, when we figure how people may start turning nasty against each other as their material lives deteriorate — Katrina gave us a microcosm of that).

Since each great catastrophe is the result of a combination of small problems that would each be harmless in itself, the way to safety is to watch for small problems, that don't lead to catastrophe, and deal with each of them systemically.

There is hope that the new approaches may be able to deal with climate change and the fear that a failure to understand how CE could affect the complex climate system may lead to a great catastrophe.

a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end: the great catastrophe of the Old South at Appomattox.

No great catastrophes.

Wednesday's fuel spill ignited fears of greater catastrophe with a potential increase in tanker traffic on the West Coast.

Unless new forces evolve outside closed political systems and force change we will suffer greater catastrophe; it's just a matter of when.

Not exact matches

He also wrote that his fellow libertarians were on a «fool's errand» trying to achieve their ends through political means: «In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - called «social democracy.»»

Having once called the collapse of the Soviet Union «the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century,» he now sees an opportunity to rectify that wrong.

Sean McMeekin's July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books) lays primary blame on Austria - Hungary; Christopher Clarke's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Harper) and Max Hastings» Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Knopf) spread the responsibility around, with both Clarke and Hastings assigning Wilhelmine Germany the decisive role amidst a desperately inept performance by the Great Powers.

Here you will find the ways in which the left embraced eugenics, «scientific» racialism, the campaign to ban Christianity from the public square, and utopian politics, all resulting in the great human catastrophes of the century past.

But when you think of these men, these women, fathers and mothers who have lost their children, brothers and sisters who have lost brothers and sisters, and the very great pain of such a catastrophe... my heart.

If the catastrophes that are already happening, and the greater ones that are now inevitable, are to be contained and limited, there must be profound changes in institutions.

The fall of great tragic heroes is more monumental than our own, but final catastrophe is our mutual fate.

I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.

By means of the story of the great flood, in which things were described as being so bad that the human race was all but annihilated, Israel was taught to see in the rainbow a sign that God would never again send such a catastrophe to blot out mankind.

This longer view displays far more radical changes and indicates the possibility of great advances as well as catastrophes.

A cosmic catastrophe, involving a great conflict, was expected to precede the end of the present age.

It was the twin catastrophes of the Great Depression and, above all, the entirely unexpected coming to power of Hitler in 1933 that transformed a situation at worst unsatisfactory into one that was terminal and murderous.

Postmodernist interpreters join Iago in scorning the protestations of Othello and Desdemona that their love is actually something more than mere sensual attraction, and only by this great negation can they deny that Othello, like all Shakespeare's tragic heroes, is the embodiment of a Western ideal who fails and suffers catastrophe.

His insightful treatment of different understandings of freedom illuminates why Adam bears the greater guilt for the primordial catastrophe, and Christians of all communions will be instructed by his fresh presentation of the saving connections between Eve and Mary, who is the New Eve as Jesus is the New Adam.

Catastrophes of great magnitude may not occur in this century.

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

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

If true, it would be perhaps the greatest biomedical catastrophe in modern history.

Instead, he found the greatest impact would come from climate catastrophes.

Regions of great forests, showing an apparently immense wealth, are products of time and adaptation in a continent which has not known the catastrophes of glaciation.

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.

«It must have been a great place to bury eggs,» Unwin says — until, periodically, catastrophe struck.

The population factor in what appears to be a looming catastrophe is even greater than most people suppose.»

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

He also examines the larger lessons to be learned from such an ecological catastrophe — brought on by commercial exploitation and deforestations, among other causes — in this «planet's sixth great episode of mass extinctions.»