Sentences with phrase «nearly vanished»

The team concluded that at that point in history, the Dead Sea nearly vanished: The lake evaporated, leaving salt deposits in the process as water levels fell about 2,300 feet (700 m) until only a beach remained.

If the giant body of water nearly vanished with no human pressures, what could be the consequences with both man - made climate change and water diversions for irrigation that keep much of the resource from even reaching the Dead Sea?

More on Species and Habitats Under Threat Mexican Walking Fish Nearing Extinction Most Obnoxious Bird in the World has Nearly Vanished Thousands of Undiscovered Plants Face Extinction

Early this week I was sent an encouraging update from a conservation group on the status in the Hawaiian Islands of the short - tailed albatross, a remarkable ocean - roaming bird that once numbered in the millions but, devastated by the feather trade and other impacts, nearly vanished early in the 20th century.

Since 1989, Romanians have faced increased economic disparity; the middle class has nearly vanished as inflation has soared to more than 40 % per year.

The word has nearly vanished in modern language, having survived only in Nichts — nothing, (or no - thing), which was formed out of the two words in (meaning no) and icht (any such thing) as in - icht.

The mottled canid, which can be found only at California's Channel Islands National Park, nearly vanished in the 1990s, when golden eagles arrived in the archipelago and began preying on it.

Set in a near future where water has nearly vanished from the American West, it's a story of survival, weakness and cults.

Along the way, they dodge thunderstorms in Nebraska, chase runaway mules across the Wyoming plains, scout more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, cross the Rockies, and make desperate fifty - mile forced marches for water.

But fast - forward to the year 2000, and most of these foundational services had been eviscerated in favor of broad tax cuts, and the public and political will to serve all children (particularly low - income children of color) had nearly vanished.

In today's rapidly digitizing world, the stigma that once existed around online dating has nearly vanished and online dating is growing in popularity.

My digestion started to run more smoothly and the nagging aches and pains that used to bother me had nearly vanished.

With just a few sessions, my need to use food for comfort nearly vanished.

Today, it has nearly vanished from there.

The areas experiencing exceptional drought — the worst type of drought — have nearly vanished.

Several rodents, such as the dusky hopping mouse and the plains mouse, had nearly vanished during the rabbit takeover.

The result was that by the end of the nineteenth century Puma concolor coryi, the sleek animals that had once roamed from the bottom of South Carolina to Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana, had nearly vanished.

Within the span of a quarter century, all of that has nearly vanished.

In just five months, the pests nearly vanished.

Giant Thai catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei) are native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins (a nearly vanished ecosystem portrayed at Shedd Aquarium in the large Asian Rivers exhibit in the Rivers gallery).

Any sense of common life nearly vanished, and the faculty adopted a kind of social libertarianism — it kept the common educational core as minimal as possible.

The oil production cuts and healthy oil demand growth have helped the global inventory surplus to nearly vanish and it certainly looks very much like OPEC and allies have a Continue Reading

Already, we know that the overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress will nearly vanish in November.

But because the popularity of breeds, and so their number, fluctuates and may nearly vanish, comparative breed specific bite statistics are unreliable.

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But when they were nearly out, one moment too soon, the man looked back, and she vanished from him forever.

I love the Vanishing Edge underwear because they are lightweight, thin, don't ride up or give me a wedgie, ever, and they are nearly invisible under clothing.

One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike around 12,000 years ago that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, leaving only the faintest of traces, including, Hancock thinks, a cryptic warning that such a celestial catastrophe could happen to us.

Of the 45,000 species evaluated in the 2008 Red List, issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 17,000, or nearly forty percent, may vanish.

Because plutonium has a half - life of 81 million years, nearly all traces of it had vanished by the time Earth cooled 4 billion years ago.

The correlation between nearly all the negative behavior and time spent watching TV vanished after the researchers statistically accounted for relatedness.

Studies from across the country indicate that nearly 90 % of small carcasses vanish in the first two weeks, and 97 - 100 % are gone within 30 days.

Hourglass» «Vanish» stick offers full coverage with a nearly undetectable, flawless finish that looks so natural.

Though director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) originally ceased production of Dark Blood when the film's young star Phoenix died tragically at 23, the film arrived onscreen nearly 20 years after its original scheduled release date.

In the late»90s and early 2000s, Fiennes's urge to vanish nearly took over.

Apart from the soft pad of her feet on the carpet, the scene is nearly silent, with no orchestral sting underlining the looming threat, and when she turns around, he's vanished, but the movie has succeeded in making us afraid of empty spaces and the human monsters that might at any moment step into them.

Another thing is how characters in this movie vanish, the two annoying Gangster robots are in the whole film up until the fight with Devastator, you see the green one nearly get sucked into his mouth, he smashes his face against a wall and says «My Eye,» And then the two droids vanish, never mentioned again and never shown again.

Nominated for six Oscars, the film exists in the nearly - vanished tradition of All the President's Men, and not only because Jason Robards in that Watergate - era chronicle played the father of the reporter - turned - editor Ben Bradlee Jr. nicely taken by Mad Men alumnus John Slattery on this occasion.

Each actor absolutely vanishes into their characters, particularly Streep who is nearly unrecognizable as a slurring pill addict despite the fact that she looks exactly like Meryl Streep.

For a nearly 30 - year - old European film, The Vanishing looks terrific on Blu - ray.

By the time he figures out something must be amiss, she has vanished along with nearly 28 million francs from his bank account.

In one match, two of the opposing team members vanished, resulting in my team winning by covering nearly 78 % of the map, while the outnumbered opposition only covered about 6 percent.

Planned to house the new Communist government in what was then Petrograd (St. Petersburg), the monument was a pipe dream of a structure; by 1932 the nearly 16 - foot - tall model itself had vanished.

As a result, nearly all institutional support fell away from his work, and when President Charles de Gaulle appointed André Malraux, a staunch supporter of abstraction, Minister of Culture in 1959, state support for Buffet's work vanished.

Even with immediate cuts in heat - trapping pollution, nearly all the glaciers outside the Arctic and Himalayas will vanish by 2100.

All told, Figure 3 shows the developed countries — with only a fifth of the world's population — consuming nearly half of the remaining, quickly vanishing global emissions budget.

He says that if glaciers in the region continue to melt at the rate seen during the past 30 years, there is a risk that nearly all of them will vanish before the end of the century.

It's now thought that if the wetlands had been better protected before Katrina had hit, the damage wouldn't have been nearly as severe — and that those same vanishing wetlands are preventing New Orleans from rebounding from Katrina.

The record captures nearly every season in that time period, Goldstein said, with white layers of a mineral called aragonite marking summer evaporations, when the minerals were left behind as water vanished.

A recent report by mortgageloan.com predicts that home prices will rise nearly five percent in the coming year, and the low rates of today will vanish by mid-2015.