Sentences with phrase «more violent time»

And those cyclones appear to be on a thirty year cycle and were due for a more violent time.......

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«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

Some of the more extreme forecasts made for this time period include alien visitations / invasions, catastrophic asteroid impacts, violent volcanic eruptions and massive earthquakes.

once again this is a cult and should be made illegal in the united states i find this no more worthy than the hari krishnas of the 60's only there more violent and have proven this several times over talking anti american constantly kick em to the curb...

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

Apart from the obvious fact that if Jesus had experienced the troubles of old age the Incarnation might have seemed of little relevance to those who are cut off in youth by violent death in battle or otherwise, old age, although a far more general condition in our time than ever before, is still not a part of the universal lot of man.

One more thought — just as we can't possibly understand exactly HOW the lion will lie down with the lamb, until that time when we know all things fully even as we are fully known, so we can't fully understand how the Lion of the Violent OT God is able to lie down with the Lamb of Reconcilng NT Jesus.

That's clearly not the best way to go about it... The answer is far more complex and time - consuming and far less violent.

It is this structure, which often underlies our «goodness» and our «order,» which over time becomes more violent and destructive than «quick - flash mobbing,» terrible though that is.

He was to become recognized as a perceptive observer of the racial developments of the 1960s, a time when Martin Luther King's patient march toward equality began to give way to more violent methods of direct confrontation.

Both letters are more invective than they are argument; their writers knew that there is a time when scathing condemnation is more effective than calm apologetic; and it is from the vivid and violent picture of the heretics that we must try to reconstruct what these heretics stood for.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

There is a real irony in Diaz hosting Abrazo Boricuaparticularly with his expressed desire to «protect» his community.I guess that desire doesn't extend to the women of his community (excuse the pun) because the Grand Poobah of the parade this year is a wife beater — who SERVED TIME IN PRISON for the crime.His enablers at the Puerto Rican Day Riot committee attribute his violence to a youthful error — ignoring the fact that he was in his FORTIES at the time.Check out which politicians march and which do not and ask yourself if they'd ignore a violent anti — semite or racist or homophobe being so honored.Once more women in that parade are relegated to the position of tarted up and half naked — even the pre teens — but not worthy of respect.So much for Diaz» «protection».

The mayor has been pushing the Home Office to approve their purchase in time for the summer, when City Hall and the Met believe violent disorder is more likely.

The program was expressly concerned with supporting a more moderate Islam, partnering with Muslim organizations to ease the integration of British Muslims and challenge violent extremism at the same time.

Among the solutions to crime David Soares proposes is less jail time and more rehab time for non violent low level dealers / users.

They have been at odds over the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee's decision to honor Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera, the one - time leader of a violent group behind more than 100 bombings across the U.S., including one that killed four people in Lower Manhattan in 1975.

READ MORE Tear gas fired at Nairobi polling station amid Kenya election tensions As Kenya goes to the polls, voters fear post-election violence Kenya deports US expert who was supporting opposition candidate Threat of another violent Kenyan election looms A similar situation with a systems failure in the 2013 election led to Odinga's legal challenge at the time, though Kenya's Supreme Court ruled in favour of Kenyatta by validating the results.

Democrats are in favor of leniency and they want a more narrow definition of violent crime, so that youth do not go to prison for throwing rocks in windows, per The New York Times.

The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.

VIOLENT OUTBURST At the moment two black holes merge, space and time get whipped up into a frenzy that generates more power than 100 thousand billion billion suns.

And as astronauts begin to spend much more time in space, their survival may depend on how well we can predict the sun's violent episodes.

So another model, proposed in 2015, assumes the impact was extremely violent, so violent that the impactor and Earth's mantle vaporized and mixed together to form a dense melt / vapor mantle atmosphere that expanded to fill a space more than 500 times bigger than today's Earth.

Males across species generally have less time and fewer resources invested in reproducing and raising offspring, which is why, researchers believe, they're more likely to engage in riskier, often more violent acts to win mates.

For perspective, Brunner points out that a well - known genetic trait affects half the world's population and makes its carriers nine times more likely to commit violent crime than those who don't carry it.

Similarly, baby boys born prematurely are four times more likely to attempt violent suicide than those born at full term.

Those who had attempted suicide before 24 were 2.5 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime, consumed twice as much welfare support and were unemployed for twice as many months at the other study participants.

Aoki says the star likely formed from a gas cloud enriched by a pair - instability explosion, which is 10 to 100 times more violent than an ordinary supernova.

Alcohol outlets, however, were responsible for about four times more violent crimes during the 34 months of the study than those that sold marijuana (372 vs. 93).

«Lightning strikes the Earth more than 4 million times a day, yet the physics behind this violent process remain poorly understood,» said Dr. Maher A. Dayeh, a research scientist in the SwRI Space Science and Engineering Division.

He found that men who had had two or more convictions for misdemeanor violence were 15 times as likely as those with no criminal history to be charged with the most violent crimes.

It also poured out 78,000 gigawatts of heat — six times more violent than any other Io volcano and thousands of times the heat from any recent eruption on Earth.

According to this model, the violent wind that creates a planetary nebula is also the engine that transforms a bloated red giant into the burnt - out cinder of a white dwarf, a metamorphosis common to all stars of low and intermediate mass — stars up to eight times more massive than the sun.

Playing violent video games, over time, leads boys to be less honest, less patient, and more hostile.

This game is definitely aimed at the younger Pokemaniacs, but older fans like myself can still get enjoyment out of it if they keep an open mind, it's not as good as the first PokePark game do to looser controls and by just not being as much fun, but it manages to expand on what the first game offered in the way of new content, for instance this time you don't just play as Pikachu but also Tepig, Snivy, and Oshawott after you meet them, and you can switch between them on the fly anytime you want, and you'll need to use each of their special abilities in your adventure, it also adds side - scrolling sections and a few other new features to keep things fresh, it also has some multiplayer attractions to play with so that's also nice, and you'll still be befriending all sorts of Pokemon just like the last game, you also get free roam after the main quest so you can make sure to befriend them all, and it's all adorable do to the cute graphics and world, even the loading screens are adorable, and as a gamer who typically plays more serious and violent games it was nice to spend time in the lighthearted PokePark with some of my favorite Pokemon, I recommend it and I definitely see myself returning in the days to come.

At times, this congeals into intoxicatingly energetic and disturbingly violent moments of survival play, but whenever the narrative returns to moments of static calm the film has a nagging sense of perfunctory ornamentation, it's more important elements given short shrift in an effort to balance a variety of odds and ends.

Maybe they did more when their farm was arable or the storm wasn't so violent, but this is their life now and they get by, biding time for some sort of miracle.

The death scenes are getting far more gruesome and violent with each passing movie which makes it a bit more frightening at times.

As a game, perhaps there is enough fun to be had tinkering around with the «bullet time» - style of mechanics that packs an interesting and exhilarating violent punch to scenes where one gets to eviscerate a parade of bad guys before getting to the more challenging boss characters.

There's a couple of badass gunfights and shoot outs, some incredibly violent moments, lots of blood as one might expect, foul language, and more, but it's a good time.

Some characters are more interesting and unique than others, but it's telling that the best time I had in Hotline Miami 2 is when I played as The Fans, a group of violent vigilantes designed to simulate the experience of playing the original Hotline Miami.

At the time, the U.S. had more than 200 diplomatic posts across the world, including two in Libya, a region that was engulfed in a chaotic and violent civil war following the overthrow of its dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.

But even within the artifice of the second life Baby Doll leads, she escapes into her thoughts one more time by concocting violent scenarios where the girls go on missions as part of a super team of kick - ass heroines, trying to gather the tools for which they will hatch their escape.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

It opens in late - 1980s South Central Los Angeles, a time when rap was dismissed as a little more than a violent chant.

Takeshi is even more oblique in his presentation of violent action and spends the middle of the film on a strange, rambling subplot involving a disgraced mobster (Takeshi again, this time in a supporting role as a fun loving brute with a penchant for rape) and his mission of revenge.

The horror movie release, timed to Halloween, attracted more moviegoers at the North America box office than the violent Keanu Reeves thriller «John Wick.»

Had «Year One» — a Bible - times romp with Jack Black and Michael Cera — arrived on the heels of Ramis's «National Lampoon's Vacation» or «Groundhog Day,» he might have attempted something existential or a takedown of organized religion's more lurid, violent aspects.

This week, Natalie Portman returned to host Saturday Night Live and delivered another of her viral raps — this time, with cutting commentary on her new status as a wife and mother, along with a very violent, in - character defense of those oft - maligne... Read more