Sentences with phrase «in death throes»

Tony Edwards, senior partner of TV Edwards and a former LSC commissioner, describes the LSC as «in its death throes, and everyone knows it.

Could the bogus «Climategate» scandal finally be in its death throes?

Some of you may recall that more than a year ago I predicted that the Kyoto Protocol was in its death throes.

is in its death throes, in the next one or two years Bob Carter's «it stopped in 98» crap will be back firing.

Maybe you come across the remnants of a declining empire, still overwhelmingly powerful even in their death throes and clinging to the few star systems they possess.

But it's foolish for us to see them as a pathetic, sick creature in their death throes.

I own a lot of stuff on both the Nook and Kindle ecosystems, but the Nook is in its death throes.

Yes, the old industry is in its death throes, but what will replace it?

Let the great dying beast thrash around in its death throes.

The excavations and body preservation techniques are explained in detail, with numerous black - and - white (and some color) photographs, many featuring the plaster casts and skeletons of people in their death throes.

Mavis Gary (Theron) is in her late thirties, newly divorced and a shadow writer for a young adult series in its death throes.

In this case, the most recent simulations are uncannily similar to the explosive behavior of stars in their death throes witnessed by scientists.

«Already it is transforming our understanding of the universe, with a fresh narrative of the physics of stars in their death throes,» said France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, which funds LIGO.

So, far from our union being an anachronism or in its death throes, we can be a beacon for the world,» he writes.

Religion is thankfully in its death throes.

The extreme right is in its death throes.

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

Before November 8, numerous voices suggested that the Religious Right was in its death throes and that no intervention could resuscitate it.

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Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS - the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML - based apps - a final death throe in the mobile OS wars.

Amanda Marcotte thinks that the «Christian Right» have correctly identified their adversaries, and that the religious reaction — increasingly, she thinks, played out in the public square — amounts to the death throes of an old order.

People having near death experiences has been going on for a while and hasn't stumped scientists as much as it's accepted that people hallucinate when the brain is randomly firing off synapses in it's death throes,.

Even though he wrote «cruel things» about the mainline churches as he documented the minor drama of their self - inflicted death throes, he «remained one of the faithful, in a pretty faithless age.»

Thankfully religion is dying and creationists are simply in their desperate death throes.

All gods die.This is just the death throes of christianity.How many religions and gods has man created in our short time on this planet and how many have died?Christianity had it's run and has lost its purpose and been changed so many times since its formation.Mans true religion is power / control and money / goods and always has been.We just keep repackaging it and moralizing it, same crap in a different bag!

Staten Island has been in the throes of a prescription pill and heroin epidemic, with the borough having the highest rate of accidental overdose deaths in the city between 2000 and 2014, according to the Department of Health.

What we saw in Falkirk» - the Labour leader concluded, as recently as July - «is part of the death - throes of the old politics».

Staten Island is in the throes of a prescription drug epidemic with the borough having the highest rate of opioid OD deaths in the city.

«Sensing that PDP is in the throes of death, he is contemplating dumping the party for APC, but there is no place for him in APC as he is only looking for an escape route from prosecution for his various infractions on the law since his first aborted tenure as governor,» he explained.

Mr Miliband said the Falkirk controversy represented «part of the death - throes of the old politics», and he hoped to usher in an «open, transparent and trusted» system which would engage more union members directly in the party.

A SUPERNOVA that burst onto the cosmic scene in April 2007 was probably the death throes of the most massive star yet discovered.

But the death throes of the shelf's northern half — 3250 km2 have broken off since 31 January — is «spectacular in terms of the area and speed,» says Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Since its launch, Hubble has reshaped our view of space, with scientists writing thousands of papers based on the telescope's clear - eyed findings on important stuff like the age of the universe, gigantic black holes or what stars look like in the throes of death.

Also evident are concentric rings around the object, the result of material being periodically tossed out in the star's final death throes.

Oliver survives on an Sleepy Hollow 2013 (tt2647544) Ichabod Crane awakes from the throes of death 250 years in the future where he must solve a mystery dating back to the

When the Spotlight investigation is temporarily halted in the wake of 9/11, we're reminded that the film is also a period piece, set during a time when print journalism had not yet entered its death throes.

We then fade to a long, extended shot of a prison janitor sweeping away the piss and feces of the prisoners that's flowed out into a prison hallway, then see extended scenes of Sands in the throes of dying: Scenes of bed sores, blood in toilet bowls, delusions, hearing loss, and then a final vision, near death, of a young Sands running in the woods.

Oldroyd films the impassive Katherine and terrified Anna's subsequent silent meal in a long, static shot that's as chillingly detached as Katherine herself, soundtracked only by the old man's agonized offscreen death throes.

It is a moving exploration of life and death, in which Effua, the narrator, tells of a passionate story of trial and tribulation, of the triumph of love and life, even in the throes of death.

In hindsight, this tumultuous period — of hedonism and racial tensions, excess and fear, progress and resistance — hastened the death throes of a country on the brink of financial disaster and of a world on the brink of war.

One can easily imagine the emotional distress caused by being continually plunged into feelings over the recent death of a loved one while creating a fictional character in the throes of similar grief.

Kobo is already into damage control mode now that Borders bookstore is in its last throes of death and as a first step, it has begun shifting user accounts attached to Borders to its very own.

At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.

The key is in being able to accurately analyze new initiatives and quickly identify whether they are going through growing pains or death throes.

Although retaining the purity of the gameplay was obviously first and foremost amongst the minds at Raven, they also weren't afraid to put their own stamp on the game, whether it is by adding your teammates in their throes of death during THAT iconic moment or by simply adding two new training areas to the beginning of the game to accommodate younger players weaned on the futuristic shenanigans of the later games.

Buildings crumble, wooden huts shedding splinters and smoke from artillery barrages, explosions sending earth and shrapnel flying as burned men claw at the ground, staggering and writhing in the throes of death.

You take control of one of these agents and, after fiddling around with the limited physical appearance customisation options, you're dropped directly into the middle of a city in the middle of its death throes.

Its colors build to a greater darkness, and the brushwork resolves into hands raised as if scraping against a wall in the throes of death.

From the Whitney's rebirth and the Guggenheim's death throes to MoMA's solid business as usual, consider the year in review.

Selah stands nearly eleven feet tall, but only because the human figure has its hands raised, either to avoid a deadly police response or in the throes of death.

But he sees a silver lining in them: «These are the death throes of a wounded opposition,» he said.