Sentences with phrase «plagues of locusts in»

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«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

The prophet Joel is mainly concerned with a plague of locusts, but in his third chapter he pictures the final war:

If the occurrence in Egypt of hail and locusts in catastrophic severity is rare, plagues of frogs, insects, and always related diseases are a repeated phenomenon of Egypt's history.

In 1904 a plague of locusts «filled the trenches faster than they could be shoveled,» Pumpelly wrote, and plunged the area into famine, forcing him to abandon the dig.

What follows is an Old Testament story that ends the drifters heavenly days on the farm, as the wheat - fields are taken over by a plague of locusts, a fire rampages through the prairie and a fight until death between the suspicious farmer and the hot - tempered Bill occurs after the hustler was observed touching the farmer's wife in not such a brotherly way.

An even more complex layer to the story comes towards the end, in which a plague of locusts attack the grain and the farm is burned to the ground in order to save it.

Three and a half thousand years later: disastrous storms and floods, epidemics, epizootic diseases and plagues of locusts, poisoned lakes and dying rivers it might appear as if the Biblical plagues were returning in the twenty - first century.

In these dialogue - free opening scenes, set to a score that buzzes like a plague of locusts, There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.

Thanks to Malvo's Old Testament - tinged blackmail of God - fearing supermarket tsar Stavros Milos (which includes loosing a plague of locusts on his store and bathing him in pig's blood), we finally find out what happened to the briefcase full of cash that, in the film, was buried in the snow.

Undeterred by plagues of locusts and the infernal heat, Emma Sloley escapes a scorching summer on a drive through the Snowy Mountains in southeastern Australia

found to exist among these different factors, the international (Chinese, French, German, Norwegian) team of researchers concluded that «food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods, resulting in more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.»

«In analyzing the linkages they [Zhang et al.] found to exist among these different factors, the international (Chinese, French, German, Norwegian) team of researchers concluded that «food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods, resulting in more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.&raquIn analyzing the linkages they [Zhang et al.] found to exist among these different factors, the international (Chinese, French, German, Norwegian) team of researchers concluded that «food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods, resulting in more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.&raquin more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.»