Sentences with phrase «laid waste by»

The destruction of mountains, streams, rivers and groundwater, the destruction of land laid waste by strip - mining, the loss of wildlife in these areas, the human illnesses and premature deaths that result from these practices especially in Appalachia, the CO2 emissions and resulting climate change along with the havoc this causes — all of these are externalities that do not enter into the price companies pay to mine the stuff or the costs we pay to turn on the a.c.

Will we one day need these genetic reservoirs to rebuild a planet laid waste by natural or man - made disaster?

«And the eleventh black waters which thou hast seen: this is the calamity now befalling Zion,» namely Jerusalem laid waste by the king of Babylon (67:1 - 6).

To lay wasted by one's nugacities is true forlorning and unworthy of but passiveness «candoration»!

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Welcome to the business of cleaning up a town laid to waste by forest fire, a surreal, risky and potentially profitable endeavour for experienced workers.

«What had been laid to waste in ruin by this sex,» Tertullian wrote, «was by the same sex re-established in salvation.

By 1941, he was half - apologizing to American audiences for his use of German: «It is in this language that we have, throughout our lives, fought against the self - glorification of nationalism and... the force of nationalist criminality that is laying waste to our world.»

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

The Video Electronics Standards Association, set up in 1989 by the computer industry to lay down standards for screen displays, recently agreed a system called Power Management, which cuts the power wasted by a monitor.

Reducing the amount of coral laid to waste by these starfish will greatly improve overall reef health, according to Sweatman.

Rather than honor his promise to share the riches with the humans whose township was laid to waste by the dragon's flames, Thorin decides to keep all the jewels to himself, as well as the elven heirlooms that Thranduil (Lee Pace) is eager to reclaim.

A high speed, upgradeable weapon on wheels powered by the almighty double kick, the Gundillac lays waste to all that chase it down.

Now they come for your High Fidelity to lay waste to your 20s: Deadline reports that Disney is adapting Nick Hornby's 1995 novel (and, by extension, its 2000 film adaptation) into a gender - swapped TV show that's an...

As «Task Force X,» they're forced into work by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, «Blackhat») after one of her assets goes rogue and begins to lay waste to Midway City.

It's a directorial choice that some critics have questioned, but Attah never feels less than honest in those moments, even when high on drugs and hallucinating while part of a marauding band laying waste to a village; or when the exact nature of his and The Commandant's (Idris Elba) relationship is sickeningly revealed; or even in the quiet, tiny moments at the film's end when by the merest flicker across his face we understand how much the war outside has been internalized.

The script by Max Landis has a twist or two along the way, including a nice reveal about Phoebe that gives Stewart more to do than look on admiringly as Eisenberg lays waste to all - comers.

A series of events lead to their civilization co-opted by Lord North (Tom Hiddleston), whose greed lays waste to every thing in his path.

As I'm sure you all know by now, the Thor sequel finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) stripped of his hammer by Hela (Cate Blanchett), who escapes from her Asgardian prison and lays waste to the realm.

The planet destroyer Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds) has descended from the interstellar unknown and laid waste to both the hidden island of Themyscira and the lost underwater city of Atlantis in search of powerful artifacts known as «Mother Boxes,» a third one buried in the bowels of the earth by mankind 5,000 years ago the last remaining key that will help this demon cover the world in fire and darkness.

Before the title of the film is even shown, the dragon manages to lay waste to the town (which is unfortunately made entirely of wood) and is slain by Bard the Bowman.

The BAFTAs just came by to lay waste to dreams and brings others back from the dead.

On the planet Draco, colonized by refugees from Earth, a mysterious indigenous dragon is spreading the Crimsonscale disease, laying waste to human settlements.

The leader of the cult, who calls herself Maggie, claims to be from the future — the year 2054 to be precise — when civil war has laid waste to the land and bands of survivors clandestinely roam the countryside (think The Terminator by way of The Walking Dead).

In response to a post by former teacher Anthony Cody, education pundit RiShawn Biddle eloquently lays waste to the poverty - trumps - all argument.

This lack of oversight laid the foundation for a recent report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), which found some $ 200 million in «alleged and confirmed financial fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement» committed by charter schools around the country.

Eagles disappeared from the Channel Islands by the early 1960s likely due to the hundreds of tons of DDT waste products released into the ocean south of Los Angeles that caused the birds to lay thin - shelled eggs.

You start by tapping the gun to select it and then tap to move to the spots they lay out in front of you while laying waste to enemies in a scripted sequence of encounters.

Snake drops a few of his assailants, then hops aboard the helicopter, laying waste to many of the base's key structures by firing volleys of lead into conveniently - placed red barrels (when will those baddies learn?).

Zombie Tycoon 2 is a tactical real - time strategy game in which you will lay waste to your enemies by controlling two squads of zombies, one hero - like monster, and one zombie - spawning vehicle.

Evoke the nostalgia of all night gaming sessions from years past — share the adventure by exploring Brut @l's dungeon with a friend in local co-op and lay waste to the hordes of enemies that stand between you and floor 26.

You and your squad of Desert Rangers must traverse the remains of a land laid to waste by nuclear war. The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you, so arm your team to the teeth with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone.

Backed by a legion of tanks and an army of bizarre creatures, he stormed through the kingdom and laid waste to everything in his way.

Commander - in - Chief is a pretty difficult job, especially in this twisted universe, as the alien species known as Zin, led by none other than Zinyak, descends on Earth, capturing your colleagues and partners and lays waste to D.C. in the process.

And maybe get a wipeout or warhawk stage goin... I'd be pretty awesome to be fighting as hover cars fly by on loop de loops then as warhawks roar by laying waste to each other.

rantic Arcade - Style Action — Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never - ending onslaught of attackers or face being overrun by Mental's savage beasts.

The only way you're going to lay waste to its biggest beasties is by dispatching many of their more humble brethren.

Ms. Reaves makes sculpture that is also furniture, not so much by blurring their shared border as by laying waste to it.

The chairs in Patio View, a recent MFAH acquisition, look onto a Vietnamese cityscape that has been laid to waste by American bombs.

Any other form of energy can be turned into heat, either partially, or completely; and what lay folks refer to as «heat» is simply the result of turning some other form of energy; which can include EM radiation; once again, all the way from down to but not including DC, up to the end of the gama ray spectrum (orbeyond), into the waste mechanical energy of some physical matter; and for most people that is a result of absorption of EM radiation by mostly water in the human body; that's what WE feel as «heat».

The «Big Tech» digital gatekeepers such as Facebook, Google, Snapchat, etc. refine and exploit our data and have by now laid waste to the advertising multiverse and turned that once... [more]

The «Big Tech» digital gatekeepers such as Facebook, Google, Snapchat, etc. refine and exploit our data and have by now laid waste to the advertising multiverse and turned that once diverse ecosystem into a duopoly.

She also lays out the warning signs that her stress level is rising: «If I feel crunched for time or I have too many balls in the air, I will get impatient if things are taking too long or if we are wasting time by getting off task.»