Sentences with phrase «much destruction from»

Not exact matches

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

So much harm from a single seed of destruction calling people to value ignorance over knowledge, logic over irrationality, and delusion over reality.

Human beings have brought much evil on the earth, God judges through a flood, Noah's family is saved from the destruction through the ark, and the human race begins again upon a renewed earth.

Much of the work of God on earth is focused on protecting humanity from complete destruction at the hand of these destroying powers.

Jodi, the poppies are from the battlefield (I think the Somme) of the First World War that, after so much death and destruction, bloomed with poppies once again.

But a much more important part ofthe answer is that, more than any other agency, it was the BBC, particularly through its online service, who first wrenched the Pope's words from their context and then spread them through the world in a form which would inevitably lead to violence and destruction.

What seems most likely is that, much like the flood and due to the various elements of the Chaos Theory, God was unable to stop the destruction of Sodom, but would do everything He could to rescue and deliver people from the impending destruction.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

Between chasing that little person away from sure danger and cleaning up the path of destruction they leave behind, you find you don't have much time for anything else.

Festinger summarized the extraterrestrials» new pronouncement: «The little group, sitting all night long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from destruction.»

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

It creates a much greater blast effect than infrared radiation, or heat — which was the primary means of destruction from the bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Environmental destruction — from smuggling elephant tusks to illegal dumping of toxic waste — generates as much as $ 213 billion annually for criminals and terrorists.

At a hearing before the House of Representatives Science Committee last week, John Doolittle, a Republican from California, said that research implicating CFCs in the destruction of ozone is «very much open to debate», and there is «no established consensus» on the role of CFCs.

But Wara discovered that offset sales from destruction of the gas were far more lucrative than the sale of the refrigerant responsible for creating the pollutant in the first place, giving factories a perverse incentive to produce as much waste as possible and then create projects that sell offsets to destroy it.

Yet, how much to invest in policies — like setting an appropriate carbon tax — to protect future generations from environmental destruction depends on how society chooses to value human population, according to a new study published Oct. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

He and Goyer handled the topic by making it the crux of Batman v. Superman, with much of the fear towards Superman stemming from the destruction that he was (unwillingly) involved in, as if to say «Yeah, we get that it was crass and there would be repercussions, even in fiction.»

The rest of Walk the Line, from the distracting cameos by actors playing Elvis (Tyler Hilton), Roy Orbison (Jonathan Rice), Carl Perkins (Johnny Holiday), Waylon Jennings (Jennings's son Shooter Jennings) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Jennings's godson Waylon Payne) to the inevitable march of familial destruction and reconciliation, is just filler between soundtrack cuts, decorating the path to Oscar with so much narrative confetti.

Even creator Stan Lee makes his patented hilarious cameo we've come to expect in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but overall, the blended elements of hilarity and possible ultimate destruction is lost in a blur of exhilarating, yet sometimes confusing action which focuses not so much on destroying the bad guys, but evacuating a group of civilian bystanders from an Eastern European metropolis.

When people think to themselves «I'm only risk 2 % per trade, that's not too much, and it will decrease my position size as I lose», it literally makes them less sensitive to the risk in the market and to the threat of account - destruction that results from over-trading.

You should treat any puppy housesoiling or house - destruction mistake as a potential disaster, since it predicts numerous future mistakes from a dog with larger bladder and bowels and much more destructive jaws.

The concerns range from global warming to toxins in our waters to the destruction of the rain forests to the disappearance of animal species, and much more.

Though the developers don't plan to go the open - world route, the chance exists that the Joker will escape his island prison in the next game — the teaser trailer debuted at this year's Spike Video Game Awards basically promises as much, revealing a still recovering Joker admiring the willful destruction of private property from an abandoned building within the besieged city.

With those weapons of, er, light destruction, you'll simply go from area to area battling small groups of the same enemy grunts over and over, with the occasional big guy thrown in for good measure, although he doesn't really add much of a dynamic to the combat.

The game is going to take bits from the comics and from the film and cram them into an open world arena much like the Spider - Man games have done so well, but with more explosions, destruction and the ability to fly.

Most of them are quite simple, simply navigate from one side to the other and cause as much destruction as possible.

It's their dialog with Rufus during your adventure that provides much of the comedy in the game, be it from Toni's stories about Rufus» many misadventures or Gizmo talking about how Rufus is responsible for pretty much every bit of crime and destruction around the town.

Though not born there, Shade loves Opal City so much that he'd do practically anything to protect it from evil and destruction.

Players will be able to live the dream and cause as much destruction as an actual goat from the comfort of their couch.

In the Rescues, Cave focuses on a single canine that has quite literally been rescued from destruction, very much like an adopted pet.

Call it a dose of creative destruction to cure us from the monotony — I'd much rather see a hodgepodge by way of a mishmash.

Julia Lehmann, from Roehampton University, said: «In reality, the effects of climate change on African apes may be much worse, as our model does not take into account possible anthropogenic effects, such as habitat destruction by humans and the hunting of apes for bushmeat.»

Despite the rhetoric, the best available estimate of the damage we face from unconstrained global warming is not «global destruction,» but is instead costs on the order of 3 percent of global GDP in a much wealthier world well over a hundred years from now.

Judy Curry, for example, observed that climate change results in both «winners and losers», calling for much improved efforts to analyse regional change, while deploring the fact that «most of the effort undertaken seems to be attempting to sell spurious links between death and destruction from tornados, tsunamis, etc to climate change.»

Our continued destruction and degradation of natural habitat, driving extinction, means much less carbon storage and the loss of water from natural systems as well as our own.

Even without putting climate change into the mix, recent extinction has proceeded at least 3 - 80 times above long - term background rates (Barnosky et al., 2011) and possibly much more (Pimm and Brooks, 1997; Pimm et al., 1995; WRI, 2005), 17 primarily from human - caused habitat destruction and overexploitation of species.

Putra realized that in addition to anti-poaching efforts, his work could not be complete without addressing a much larger threat rapidly outpacing conservation: habitat destruction from illegal palm oil plantations.

Firstly, the political challenge of climate change is much bigger than saving both the rainforests in Mato Grosso and car manufacturers in Detroit from destruction by making their emissions and sequestrations equivalent.

From another angle, if the US wasn't so utterly dependent on fossil fuels it would not have to spend so much money supporting the national and corporate goals of ensuring that the oil keeps flowing, in the process supporting despotic regimes, even supporting friendly governments trying to peddle their environmentally destructive oil as a better alternative to those regimes, and de facto supporting rampant environment destruction in some of the world's poorest regions.

«It's a very clear indication from the Australian people that they want a much better environmental outcome in this age of climate change, pulp mills, forest destruction and more coalmines.»

It appears to me, caveat as above, that AGW has created a lifeless system in thinking in this «energy balance» much as it has done with CO2 with its destruction of the dynamical system which is all life by thinking of plants merely as «carbon sinks», somewhere merely to store CO2; from which the used to be known fact that CO2 was food for all living carbon life forms is practically unknown and now at the absurd reasoning from not knowing it, that it can defy gravity and stay removed and out of reach from the carbon life forms which evolved from its property of being available at ground level.