Sentences with phrase «here on civilization»

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«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Here in the modern, western civilization, we often pick names based on how a name sounds, or what the name reminds us of, or whether it is a common name or not.

The previous volumes» How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews» were extremely popular, and Cahill follows the same basic format here, presenting an introductory description of the world in which the gift «giver appears, a history of the protagonist (in the first volumes a people, not an individual), and finally an assessment of the gift «giver's lasting effects on history.

Here's Mitt actually defending his stand on marriage: «I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is by its definition a relationship between a man and woman and if two people of the....

If the two men was on the Noah's boat with two animals of every kind... civilization wouldn't be here.

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Yesterday we saw an extended TV spot for Duncan Jones» upcoming video game adaptation Warcraft [watch it here], and now we have a brand new poster for you... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Warcraft UPDATE: And here's a quad poster... The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a -LSB-...]

So, millions of years after avoiding destruction, dinosaurs have not in fact created a quasi-human civilization of their own (no Jurassic variation on Monsters, Inc. here, which presumably would have given us something like the Dinotopia series).

Kim Kardashian West here provides us with an existential black hole that the transcendental nihilism of a Ray Brassier can only dream of evoking (in fact, I find it interesting that on pages 256 - 257, somewhere a little past the book's halfway point, we are provided with two pages that have no words or pictures at all, pages that are completely black: it is as if this is symbolic of the black hole at the center of Western society / civilization, with the selfies orbiting it like husks of dead galaxies).

Pay attention rather than tromping over here with the pre-formed notion there are only two sides to this great clash of civilizations, and likewise assuming that I am on the other side of whatever foolishly reductive scenario you have imagined in your head.

Here at Liberty Classroom, in addition to our courses in U.S. history and Western civilization, we've developed a full - blown course in Austrian economics, instantly downloadable so you can learn in your car or on your mobile devices.

It was here on the island of Flores that the last independent state of the Maya civilization held out against the onslaught of the Spanish conquerors.

[Here] The Space Program's unprecedented images of Earth compelled us all to think deeply about our dependence on nature and the fate of our civilization.

In a sentence, here's what they found: On our current path, climate change could pose an irreversible, existential risk to civilization as we know it — but we can still fix it if we decide to work together.

as self - appointed Despot Philosopher King I hereby decree, from here on until the end of Western civilization

I believe that our presence here, on earth, in the numbers that we have managed to achieve, coupled with the fact that we have destroyed millions upon millions of oxygen producers (Trees) and have a penchant for asphalt and tarmac, which are very heat absorbing, and purposely keep reflective surfaces to a minimum (they're blinding) AND have created a civilization based on burning fossil fuels and using other things which are detrimental to our ecology, that, yes, we are probably responsible in large for the exelerated melting of the global ice... but, we have been in a state of warming since the last ice age ended... we just speeded up the process.

The dark irony here is that, while very general risk - induced doubts in the benevolence of the promises of governments to protect their citizens lead to criticisms of the inefficiency of scholarly and state authorities, critics are blind to the possibilities of erecting (or expanding) the authoritarian state on this very inefficiency... Central, however, are not, as with Huntington, traditional religiously grounded «civilizations», but opposing risk belief religions.

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