Sentences with phrase «near extinction as»

As for the rustic, bunk - beds - and - flannel aesthetic you probably enjoyed as a kid â $» thatâ $ ™ s about as near extinction as the fivefigure cottage price tag.

Not exact matches

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

Grizzly bears were classified in 1975 as threatened in the continental United States after nearing extinction from hunting, trapping and poisoning.

Perceived as a threat to humans, livestock and game animals, the Florida Panther was persecuted and hunted to near extinction by the mid-1950s.

Yet environmentalists behave as if the opposite were true: every time a change occurs that pushes a species nearer to extinction there is an outcry.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Throughout the Milky Way Galaxy (and even near the Sun itself), astronomers have discovered stars that are well evolved or even approaching extinction, or both, as well as occasional stars that must be very young or still in the process of formation.

Read on to learn more about the lives of Mexican gray wolves, their tragic history and near - extinction, their role as a top - of - the - food - chain carnivore and their present constricted range.

As the Brazilian tribal language Tupi Guarani nears extinction, this hyper - aggressive group is raising awareness about the urgent need to save it — one ENOUGH WITH THE CHRISTMAS SWEATERS PLEASE!

Public libraries have been teetering on the brink of extinction for years, a fact that doesn't seem likely to improve in the near future given the economic situations that lead local governments to take aim at the libraries as a primary target.

A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction — the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency.

Toronto's reported dog bites have been rising since 2012, and in 2013 and 2014 reached their highest levels this century, even as pit bulls and similar dogs neared local extinction.

The number of dog bites has been rising since 2012, and in 2013 and 2014 reached their highest levels this century, even as pit bulls neared extinction, according to a report in Global News.

Studying this outbreak as it happens should shed light on some key factors driving FPV back from near extinction.

As stated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species, the northern elephant seal has recovered from near extinction and population growth and is expected to continue over the coming decades.

Day by day, nearing the end of extinction, these people managed to create memory after memory, adventure after adventure, and as we moved on to the «reality» of things, the year 2012 for them was unarguably traveling... like it's the end of the world.

By Al Zagofsky - Special to the Times News of Carbon County Pennsylvania April 17, 2004 petting whale Since whaling was banned in 1946, the California Gray Whale population has rebounded from near extinction to a population that has been estimated to be as high as 27,000.

We hope this will lead to a continued building of their numbers in Washington waters as they recover from persecution and near extinction in the previous century.

(Cf., Diamond's account of the Norse collapse in Greenland; as the Norse were starving into near - extinction, the better - adapted Thule culture people were thriving.)

This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.

Anthropogenic climate change is currently affecting 19 percent of species that are listed as threatened or near - threatened — making it the 7th extinction driver.

«Humans in the near future,» predicted Michael Moore, the documentarian filmmaker, in a recent tweet, «will mark today, March 28, 2017, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began, thanks 2 Donald Trump.»

As it turns out, for the DOD to continue weapons practice on the base without interruption, it'd have to do its damnedest to make sure the fluttering little butterflies make a comeback.According to biologists, checkerspot butterflies may have seen their populations plummet to near - extinction due to habitat loss, but ironically the fragile insects have found safe haven in the unlikeliest of places, forming one of their largest colonies on the firing range of the military base.

For now at least, as the first of 32 Eastern Black Rhinos are released to their homeland after their ancestors were hunted to near extinction, things are finally looking up.

Endangered species such as the Florida Panther are nearing extinction because of the numbers of big cats hit by automobiles each year.

Inertia between the ears makes it predictable that this natural process may be characterized as «dithering» while other natural processes bring us to near extinction.

In this one, you play as Munch, a frog - like creature whose species has been fished to near extinction and now is going to take revenge with their side - kick, Abe.