Sentences with phrase «one's very existence»

First and foremost, time was a factor in this game's very existence in the first place.

The device seems to be aimed at not just any old privacy - concerned user, but those whose very existence depends on retaining their privacy and anonymity, for one reason or another.

With most insurers, a medical exam is essential when purchasing very existence insurance coverages, and especially once the insured party is of retirement age.

It's very existence does not prohibit you from playing something else!

The park's very existence illustrates the power of the environmental conservation movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

A person can not really worship a being about whose very existence he feels uncertain.

Very existence insurance was designed to be a very long time policy while term only covers you for a certain amount of time.

Similarly, Kekes (a nonbeliever) claims, religious theories that posit the goodness of creation run aground: The «very existence of evil... constitutes a reason against believing in a morally good order.»

One could almost explain the Church's very existence as a place where history meets eternity and the two walk together as one.

Will she have the mettle to stand and fight for what is right, even if doing so puts the paper's very existence at risk?

It is enough to say that that participation involves a kind of heedless assurance of being in the right that sits particularly ill on people whose very existence depends on a mere stroke of luck — the luck of someone's having immigrated to the United States.

The being in question happens to be a robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander), a fibreglass creation with a beautiful female face whose very existence seems too good to be true.

«As Americans continue the struggle to defend justice and equality in our tumultuous and divisive era, we need to know what Grant did when our country's very existence hung in the balance.

Fans of the first DOA Xtreme will absolutely despise this game's very existence due to the original fun factor being stripped away.

Environmentalists believe construction of the dam on the river Chichkhan, on top of the waterfall, would «imperil [Trchkan's] very existence,» according to ArmeniaNow.

Hopkins» character is even helped along by a senile robot named Cogman, an unapologetic C - 3PO ripoff whose very existence proves that Bay thinks nothing is sacred in his plundering of cinematic traditions.

Just as O.J. somehow distilled America's racial pathologies and JonBenét encapsulated anxieties about an increasingly sexualized culture, Tonya's very existence confronted the country's convenient fictions about being a place where everyone has a fair shot, where an even playing field is the rule.

October 5, 2017 • The show's plot and very existence provoke larger questions around race, representation and casting.

Before diving into the present - day status quo established in Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther opens with a promise and a betrayal — fraternal twins of fate whose very existences immediately give the movie's plot a Shakespearean sense of grandeur and intimacy.

Although Solondz garners a fair measure of respect for his ardour for exposing the sanctimony of our daily interactions, Storytelling's very existence exposes a fundamental degree of hypocrisy.

by Walter Chaw I don't have any real objection to anything depicted in The Hills Have Eyes II: not to the live - birth prologue that ends with the grisly murder of the mother; not to the greenstick demise of one National Guardsman or the death - by - feces of another; not even to the brutal rape of still another enlistee whose very existence opens the door for an ugly sequel.

The M2's very existence helps us stomach the M4's softer character, immerse ourselves in its utter refinement, and fully enjoy its sensationally smooth and overwhelming power.

OUR CONTINUED SUCCESS - THEIR LIVES - OUR VERY EXISTENCE - DEPENDS ON YOU!

Over the years the Dead or Alive series has become a staple of Tecmo's very existence spawning several spin - off, most notably that favourite game of young male teens everywhere Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball, and we even saw a movie based on the franchise in 2005 starring none other than WWE wrestling legend Kevin Nash as Bass Armstrong.

They support the livelihood of many hundreds of thousands of people, whose very existence relies on the cheap, simple, versatility that so typifies the cargo bike the world over.

And then, with Chadwick's discovery of the neutron, a resolution of the reason for isotopes very existence.

Paul Nuttall has welcomed privatisation of the health service, arguing that the «very existence of the NHS stifles competition».

The WCC's very existence as a council of churches is a living hope.

Batman struggles against Superman's regime, as a new threat appears that will put Earth's very existence at risk.

But, then again, as Lyons proved way back when, there's something about a gambler whose very existence depends on success that increases the odds of succeeding.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

When these ancient super-species — thought to be mere myths — rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

Apart from new modes and content, the game's very existence does raise further questions about just what we will be getting thus Autumn. Considering Microsoft published the sequel on the 360, just how much of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will be a port of the original and how much will be a complete remake based on proprietary PS3 code?

Whatever their name and reputation, these policies are a kind of very existence insurance which can be designed to pay money for certain expenses related to death, including a funeral, cremation and burial.

Astronomers have discovered three quasars — each a billion times the mass of the sun — whose very existence challenges our conventional understanding of how supermassive black holes form and evolve.

«The very existence of democracy relies on a free and thriving fourth estate,» VICE founder Shane Smith said in a prepared statement about the blackout campaign.

I find that to be disrespectful to the creators, those who make the very existence of cinema possible.»

We now know that water from Enceladus comprises the largest component of Saturn's magnetosphere (the area of space controlled by Saturn's magnetic field), and the plumes are responsible for the very existence of Saturn's vast E-ring, the second outermost ring of the planet.

It also is the subject of a previously - unreported fraud lawsuit that could eventually threaten its very existence.

Your organization sits in a mostly invisible pool of customers, non-customers and influencers, a pool that is much larger than your organization and upon which your very existence is entirely dependent.

Their very existence reflects the fact that Medicare, which most retirees rely on for health coverage, does not cover nursing - home care.

She says it's an «existential crisis» — not in the academic sense, but in the sense that our very existence is at stake.

This strategy differs from a crisis - management strategy, which focuses on significant and often unforeseen problems that may threaten the very existence of the company.

America's close ally Israel accused Iran this week of «brazenly lying» about its nuclear capabilities, and Israeli sources have said new evidence provides «proof of the very existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.»

Yet the proof that it can happen is embedded in Bloomberg's very existence: It, too, was once the upstart that toppled a seemingly invincible titan.

He looked reality straight in the eye and denied its very existence.

Sotomayor writes that the «very existence» of prosecutors and defense attorneys «depends on a shared acceptance of the law's judgment as properly superseding the passion of either side for a desired outcome.»