Sentences with phrase «human catastrophes of»

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.

The largest human catastrophe of Stalinism was the famine of 1930 — 1933, in which more than five million people died.»

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

To lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisis.

The purpose of the disaster film is not to make small conflicts bigger but to make big ones smaller - to reduce unthinkable catastrophes to a human scale.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

I think that many of us will witness a catastrophe of human society in our lifetime.

Wes Craven, the famous writer and director of horror movies, could have scripted several of the gruesome human catastrophes in the Old Testament.

They must not make mountains out of molehills and exaggerate inevitable teething troubles into frightful catastrophes, but bear patiently the all - too - human side of the Church to which they, too, make their contribution.

My priest friend attacked him publicly for preaching such religious «opium» and stated that the catastrophe was not an accident at all, much less the will of God, but rather the result of an exploitative system that puts profits ahead of human lives and well - being.

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.

In a recent book I read (Engaging the Powers), the author suggested that such a response is natural in light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basis.

As I have tried to show in this book, unless we humans are strongly motivated to become a global society, we are likely in the imminent future to suffer horrendous catastrophes which will be of our own making.

I am just saying that usually, these sorts of disasters and catastrophes help spur the human race on toward a new level of understanding and unity, which make further advances easier.

It is estimated that during this period, in the midst of the human catastrophes mentioned above, 40 billion dollars worth of arms and ammunition was poured into Afghanistan, primarily by the Soviet Union and the USA.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

This transformation must also include at least some minimal comprehension of the basic steps which must be taken in order to avoid catastrophe and realize the enormous potential for human enjoyment which is within our reach.

I feel that most people don't fully understand how fickle mother nature can be and how utterly dependent we are for our day - to - day supplies on a network of human cooperation that could easily break down in the face of catastrophe.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

He can even be slain for us, bearing the awful catastrophe of human evil, without ceasing to be Lord.

«All human existence, hourly threatened by the catastrophe, lives in the interval of grace: «Let it alone this year also, in case it perhaps bears fruit» (Luke 13:8 f).»

The possibility of major human catastrophe, whether by nuclear holocaust or by irreversible ecological disaster, is all too real.

Unless catastrophe intervenes, there will be future generations of human beings to whom our present policies are bequeathing an impoverished planet.

The catastrophe that befell the Son characterizes all conditions of human existence and answers buildings shattered as well as unscathed.

The poet describes a «future laden with catastrophe» and the requirement for a «sense of open space ahead of the individual and the human species.»

We see the possibility that human history will come to its end neither in a brotherhood of man nor in universal death under the blows of natural or man - made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and «word of honor» is given and accepted in deception and distrust.

The price of the Chernobyl catastrophe was overwhelming, not only in human terms, but also economically.

Besides, better to move in to avert catastrophe, than risk massive human misery, from beating a brainless drum of war.

She said that it's going to be coming out in the very near future that many of the catastrophes that have taken human lives in the State of New York have been the product of guns coming over the border from Vermont,» said State Sen. Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from Buffalo.

«In the wake of this human catastrophe we have to ask ourselves if we are really prepared to deal with a natural disaster or a terrorist event at Indian Point or collateral issues like loss of power or inability to cool fuel rods,» Lowey said.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory, a massive volcanic eruption changed the course of human history by severely reducing the human population.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

It arrives via catastrophe, or a whim of nature, or as a result of human - caused changes to the environment.

For larger inbound NEOs, of course, early detection might allow human intervention to skirt catastrophe.

Catastrophe overtook the best chess mind of his era after Deep Blue played chess like no human.

Discussing a series of possible catastrophes, natural and human - caused, the author considers what we ought to worry about, what we can dismiss, and how we might consider reducing the most dangerous risks.

Increasing scientific evidence indicates that there is a small but real probability of catastrophes that could lead to civilisational collapse or human extinction.

McNeill concluded: «Perhaps what we face as humans is a conservation of catastrophe.»

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.

For humans, the loss of limbs is almost always an irreversible catastrophe.

Geographer Jared Diamond's Collapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civilizations.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

I had to be on the verge of utter catastrophe to begin to feel the effects of cognitive decline to do all this work and then feel the effects of all this healing that happens when you provide a healthy habitat for the human ecosystem and all this repair happens.

While we await the definitive documentary about the glut of garbage, Waste Land reduces this global catastrophe to touchingly human scale.

The movie's only vaguely human presence is Sharon Horgan (the gifted writer and star of TV's «Catastrophe»), who gazes upon the manufactured gags with an air of chagrin.

But «The Disaster Artist» is really Franco's «Ed Wood,» a persuasively human chronicle of how the DIY cinematic catastrophe was borne out of the friendship between Wiseau and fellow frustrated actor Sestero, who meet in a San Francisco acting class and move to Los Angeles together with the shared dream of getting discovered.

Maybe the little Indian boy's dog doesn't die when the big bad tornados threaten all of Mumbai — despite our general acceptance of millions of humans biting the dust in these things — but disaster movies might have just flatlined with director and co-writer Dean Devlin's chaotically stupid bid to emulate his old partner, catastrophe peddler Roland Emmerich.

Despite a few catastrophes, only one happens to be shown on - screen, and the obviousness of the dummies used in place of humans doesn't allow this would - be disaster to pass the snicker test.

Solnit's historical exploration of what happens in places after catastrophes (such as San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake or New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina) will make you feel like human beings are pretty darn great.

The twentieth century was without doubt the most murderous of which we have record, both in scale, frequency and length of the war as well as the large number of human catastrophes it produced, from the greatest famines in history to systematic genocide.