Sentences with phrase «ravaged by centuries»

Official Plot Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires.

PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci - fi thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires.

In a world ravaged by centuries of war between humans and vampires some warrior priests attempt to tip the scales in favor of humanity.

Priest, a western - fused post-apocalyptic thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires.

Synopsis: In a society ravaged by centuries of war between humans and vampires, a legendary warrior priest (Paul Bettany), a veteran of the last conflict, li... [MORE]

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«There is a fourteenth - century poem by Guillaume de Machaut that tells about how the Black Death ravaged a northern French city....

In the fifth century the West Goths (Visigoths) established themselves in Spain; the Vandals, defeated by the West Goths in Spain, moved into North Africa and with their fleets ravaged the Western Mediterranean; the East Goths (Ostrogoths) made themselves masters of Pannonia on the upper Danube; the Burgundians moved into Gaul; the Franks began that conquest of Gaul which in succeeding centuries made them the dominant Germanic power in Western Europe; and Anglo - Saxons moved into Britain.

France's vineyards were ravaged by a mystery invader in the 19th century — leading to enforced sobriety and some unforeseen consequences for society

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Released by 20th Century Fox in the wake of «Star Wars» after a disconcerting amount of post-production, «Damnation Alley» starts by revealing the path to Earth's nuclear devastation, then fast - forwards two years to show a planet that's been tilted off its axis and ravaged by radiation.

Unwilling to let the mind of the most powerful woman in 1000 years be ravaged by Empaths and Telepaths, Sindri does something he hasn't done for centuries: bare his soul.

Yet just a few miles south were post-industrial cities, which at the time were blackened by a century of pollution and ravaged by unemployment and urban decay.

Truth in today's surreal landscape By Ashley Jonas Photo: «Silver Lake Operations # 1» by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-..By Ashley Jonas Photo: «Silver Lake Operations # 1» by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-..by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-...]

Also in the Neue Galerie are paintings and drawings by Arnold Bode, the founder of Documenta; a painting of Bode by Gerhard Richter; and a drawing of Athens by Theodor Heuss, the first president of West Germany; an 18th - century copy of Le code noir, which formalized the laws of slavery in the French Empire; academic allegorical sculptures representing Western nations by Carl Friedrich Echtermeier; and remarkable bronze sculptures from Benin, a society that British colonial conquest ravaged in 1897.

His heavily textured, loosely woven hanging works appear like canvases ravaged by the poverty and violence that the dominant aesthetics of the latter half of the 20th century dismissed.

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

[Translate] Global warming is on pace to ravage a region home to one - fifth of humanity by the end of the 21st century.

By the time of the 17th Century colonizations of North America (excluding Mesoamerica), the survivng Amerindian populations were but a small percentage of the earlier populations and still dwindling fast as disease continued to ravage their numbers at an astonishing rate.

Yeah, my beach house could ravaged by the foot per century sea rise - and it could worse maybe 2 feet or higher.