Sentences with phrase «kill vast numbers»

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.

Australia's environment minister, Greg Hunt, clearly not considered a charming man by Morrissey, has called feral cats a «tsunami of violence and death» that are killing vast numbers of Australia's native wildlife.

As for the downside potential for a massive spill of crude oil fouling beaches, ruining fishing grounds, destroying the coastal tourism economy, and killing vast numbers of marine animals, the plan says we must be prepared «to provide a timely and comprehensive response.»

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the vast numbers of people killed were victims of their own countrymen, who welcomed an excuse to perpetrate an act that they obviously already wanted to do.

Furthermore, the numbers are more a product of the vast populations of those nations and the tools available for killing than because religious believers would have been more restrained.

And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own wrath and anger against human sin.

Increasing numbers unable to afford dentists Post Offices wiped off the map Threatened closure of GP surgeries Vast debts in off balance sheet PFIs (at least one of my dwindling county police stations has to pay # hundreds just to put up a notice board) Servicemen being killed pointlessly because they don't have enough kit.

The militia killed and displaced vast numbers of people in what would later be called genocide.

The vast reefs that encircle the islands bear scars from decades of blast fishing, in which underwater explosives were used to kill large numbers of fish but also destroyed the coral.

In fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much more.

Bryce contends that the wind industry kills a «vast» number of birds every year — especially eagles — and insists the administration of President Barack Obama is playing favorites, allowing wind developers to go scot - free while «aggressively» prosecuting the oil and gas industry for the same infraction.

Spruce and pine bark beetles have recently infested vast areas of forest in North America, killing huge numbers of trees.

But in the vast majority of cases, these recalls have only come after a significant number of consumers had been injured or killed by defective tires.