But seemingly coinciding with the ceremony is the emergence of a planet that was previously «hiding behind the sun» and is
now on a collision course with Earth.
These two trends are
now on a collision course.»
Not exact matches
In the world of energy investing right
now, two visions of the future are
on a
collision course.
Instead of the world
on a
collision course of fighting over the last drop of oil,
now it seems that we have turned the world upside down and
now we are seeing predictions that oil demand will peak.
Only later did it become progressively clear that the modern way of thinking was
on a
collision course with some of the traditional Christian dogmas,
now being stoutly defended by fundamentalism.
The government disagrees - and because of that is
now setting itself
on an alarming
collision course with the judiciary.
The Luddite spirit lives
on in people like Kirkpatrick Sale, who thinks we are
on a
collision course with technology — although he
now uses a computer
NASA is
now quite sure that no Earth - killer asteroids are
on a near - term
collision course, but 50 - meter asteroids (large enough to flatten a city) strike every few hundred years, and almost all of them are uncharted.
The world should organise its defences
now in case an asteroid is found
on a
collision course with Earth, says a group of US scientists.
Right
now these two are
on a
collision course at 300 kilometers per second, and when they do collide, they will form a new super-giant, elliptical galaxy.
Now it's up to Newt and his newfound allies to recapture the creatures, even as their mission places them
on a
collision course with dark forces.
Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series of brutal murders and the three men whose lives are
on a
collision course as a result: the father of the latest victim
now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....
Now, 13 years later, FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is here - with 27 vehicles, 20 tracks, online multiplayer modes and, of
course, the high - velocity
collisions and fully destructible environments you'd expect from a game with a reputation built
on destruction.
«Human beings and the natural world are
on a
collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we
now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life
on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home
on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»
Instead of reducing pollution, we
now have a spate of new coal plants and inevitable greenhouse gas limits
on a
collision course that puts companies and shareholders at financial risk.»
«Right
now we have an opportunity to see climate change in a different light; to see it for what it is, a human rights issue
on a dangerous
collision course of race and class,» said Nia Robinson, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.