Sentences with phrase «near end of the world»

We are living at a time near the end of the world.
Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while forgetting about ocean acidification.
Victoria Kopwelska (Valentina Cortese) is a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near the end of World War II.
The movie takes place near the end of World War II, and Brad Pitt leads as Wardaddy, an army sergeant and tank commander with Bible (Shia LaBeouf), Gordo (Michael Pena), Coonass (Jon...
The Battleship Island Near the end of World War II, a Korean independence activist plots to save his countrymen imprisoned by the Japanese as slave labor on the island of Hashima.
In one two - day period, he appeared on MSNBC to discuss the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, near the end of World War II; and on CBS and Fox News to talk about the Martha Stewart case.
We do know that the first guide dogs specifically for the blind were trained in Germany at the end of World War I, and the first mental health service dog, a Yorkie named Smoky, was found by a soldier near the end of World War II and served as a therapy dog for soldiers for twelve years.
The other cold war: Near the end of World War II, Patricia Lake hosted a top - secret military project to build a ship out of wood pulp and ice.
Set near the end of World War II, Factotum is a picaresque of deadbeat alcoholic and Bukowski alter - ego Henry Chinaski.
Picasso executed The Charnel House near the end of World War II, when restrictions on his movements had him turning more to sculpture.

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Here's a look at how one of the most talented American cyclists came back from near - career - ending injury to become a star at the world's greatest race.
For the average American retirement saver, the world of investing can feel a lot like that scene near the end of «Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.»
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He said: «Near the end of our time together, I told President el - Sisi that I believed he was God's gift, not only to Egypt and the region, but to the world.
Paul tells us what the world will look like near the end of this kingdom era.
«I do not believe that multiplication of wants and machinery contrived to supply them is taking the world a single step nearer its goal... I whole - heartedly detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time, to increase animal appetites and go to the ends of the earth in search of their satisfaction.
It was, after all, Woodrow Wilson, a Presbyterian, who proposed the League of Nations at the end of World War I, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an Episcopalian, who drew the plans for the United Nations as World War II neared its conclusion.
My personal belief is that Jesus was a man who preached a message of love and peace, and probably believed that the end of the world was near.
Jesus said when we see this happen then we should know the end of the world is very near.
Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.
In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.
If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.
Near the end of 2015, the attention of the world was focused on the Syrian refugee crisis.
The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.
While i quite agree according to the bible that the end is nearer than we all expect in line with current realities and events around the world, but i vehemently disagree with the may 21st day of rapture because the bible says that the angels in heaven do not know the date, Our Lord Jesus does not know the day, neither is it revealed to the Holy spirit, nor the twenty four elders in heaven Mt. 24:36 but be prepared all the same.
Luther would have seen the end of the world come even nearer.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning a baby alive in a ritual because the leader of the sect believed that the end of the world was near and that the child was the antichrist.
«It's a vital season because he's nearing the end of his contract, it's a World Cup year and he has been an Arsenal player since he was a kid, so all that's at stake for him and for us as well because you'd love a player like him of that quality to come back.
As mom - to - be nears the end of her pregnancy and anxiously await baby's arrival, just know that new moms get a list of extremely important to - do's as soon as baby makes his or her way into the world.
But everyone who accepts these instruments becomes implausible when asking for a ban of therapeutic cloning and projects the near end of the Western world.
If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.
In 1995 he took a position at Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories near Canberra, Australia — now called the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics — and ended up on the other side of the world from his colleagues.
After the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, a parade of doomsayers predicted that the end of the world was near.
Hired in 1999 by the World Bank, he is nearing the end of a three - year stint as a senior energy specialist on technology matters for the bank?s Africa Rural and Renewable Energy Initiative.
The future of the Joint European Torus, the world - leading fusion facility near Oxford, U.K., remains uncertain beyond its current contract which ends in 2018.
The listing below of the world's major Lagerstätten begins with the oldest, the some billion year old Bitter Springs of Australia, and ends with the 20,000 year old La Brea Tar Pits near Los Angeles, California (USA).
I can't belive that the end of summer is so near, I think I'm one of the few bloggers in the world who doesn't adore the autumn!
Your real - world meet up call to action should be included near the end of the profile.
Instead, he's been trying to track down the puppet master behind some of the recent near - world - ending events, and looking for the Infinity Stones in order to prevent the doomed future he saw for Asgard and his people in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
When two top headhunters, Caroline Meredith (Andress) and Marcello Poletti (Mastroianni), nearing the end of their respective runs square off against one another, however, will the world allow for a love story?
You can group and queue up, a ranked mode with its own rewards is coming near the end of October, and the Seasons system of playing to complete challenges and gain rewards is a good way to keep players working toward goals while doling out lore about the game world too.
The story centers on two teenage Valley Girls who, after a comet passes right near the Earth and vaporizes billions in its wake, decide to take advantage of the end - of - the - world situation by having an epic shopping spree.
«To restrict the action of mise en scène to the space - time of the fictional world is already a false move,» he argues near the end of the book, before paraphrasing the touchstone figure of Raymond Bellour:
I had assumed that the Minions were unnatural creatures, perhaps the result of a genetic experiment by their supervillain master Gru (voice of Steve Carell), who makes a brief appearance as a teenager near the end of this movie in order to justify its existence in the world of the movie's predecessors.
One of the first major AAA games of 2018 will be Capcom's Monster Hunter: World, which is set to deploy on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One near the end of January.
There isn't exactly a happy ending, but there is a satisfying one thanks to a sweet - sad scene near the end that suggests that Ines has learned to at least appreciate her father's «make «em laugh» point of view of the world.
As the release of Metal Gear Rising draws near (at the end of this week it will be out worldwide), Hideo Kojima and other members of Kojima Productions and Platinum Games are about to start their promotional world tour, and merchandise starts to appear in stores and online.
Add the countdown structure of «Scott Pilgrim» and you're somewhere near the basic outline of «World's End
Half - formed young adult adaptations, thrillers that star Ethan Hawke because Nicolas Cage was unavailable, 3D boyband concert movies and a Riddick sequel, with only «The World's End» and «You're Next» to save the day, and a crop of good arthouse fare if they are lucky enough to playing near you («Short Term 12,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints,» «Afternoon Delight,» «Drinking Buddies «-RRB-.
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Starring: Steve Carell and Keira Knightley Directed by: Lorene Scafaria As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic.
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