Sentences with phrase «remains of an alien»

A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he is to destroy the remains of an alien race.

Twenty years after the events of the first film, the international community recovers and builds up Earth's defenses using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces.

Synopsis: A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race.

Premise: Twenty years after the War of 1996, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system and the main defense force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon.

Not exact matches

Many of these principles have become tenets in Silicon Valley's laid - back, risk - taking atmosphere, but Bushnell believes they remain alien concepts in most of corporate America.

Today our world is instead a post-Christendom world, in which many vestiges of Christianity remain but have taken on an alien identity, to the extent that they can be - and sometimes are - actually used against the Church which was their matrix.

For so long as consciousness remains bound to religion, it must exist in an alienated form, closed to the inner reality of Spirit by its very belief in an alien Other.

The biblical witness to a living God whose power is shown forth precisely as a facet of essential love and not vice versa still remains alien to these and numerous other reworkings of the historic theistic synthesis, the detailing of which would finally prove redundant.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

In America, we debate what to do about undocumented aliens, how many visas to allocate to highly skilled workers, and whether a long - term policy of favoring family reunification should remain in effect.

In such a situation one can not remain epistemically justified in having the beliefs one has without engaging the alien claims as potential defeators and seeing, to the best of one's ability, whether they do in fact defeat.

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

It's only alien because very few of us are willing to dive into the darkness that is covering that light within and wishes for us to remain asleep.

The little alien not only fills a missing void for Elliot, he also provides physical healing with the laying on of the glowing finger, and the two friends remain connected even when they are not together.

It is said, for example, that what remains in the fields after the harvest and the gatherings of olives and grapes should not be collected, it is for the alien, the orphan, and the widow (Deut.

No, the fact remains that the Christian today who chooses the orthodox image of Christ is making a wager in which he stands to forfeit all the life and energy of a world that is totally alien to the Church ’s

Even so, visitors remained aliens rather than immigrant members of the nation, except for the few who gave up their former identity, culture and religion, as Ruth did.

10:12 and 19:24), but the function and practice of prophetism remained still by and large alien, that is, Canaanite.

A 1953 United Nations recommendation referred to the definition of «permanent immigrants» as non-residents (both nationals and aliens) arriving with the intention to remain for a period exceeding a year and of «permanent emigrants» as residents (nationals and aliens) intending to remain abroad for a period exceeding one year (United Nations, 1953).

But it is revealing that Spitzer shapes the narrative to disguise the fact that illegal immigration remains deeply unpopular among Americans, who by and large oppose the elite consensus that illegal aliens must receive expedited normalization of their status.

How a message full of «ifs» and «could», built around a scale and institutions that are alien to most local residents, should «strike a chord» and enthuse people to vote remains unclear, to say the least.

THE half - digested remains of a dwarf planet could provide the best insight yet into the chemical make - up of alien solar systems.

The Great Silence, as some astronomers call the absence of alien communiqués, remains unbroken after five decades of searching.

For plants, mammals, and fishes, the proportion of newly emerging alien species has remained constant during the last 150 years but the total number of alien species has increased.

Birds that eventually rejected parasite eggs still laid an average - sized clutch of their own — even though the alien eggs remained at the top of the nest for several critical days before being buried.

The world revealed is at once tantalizingly, achingly familiar, yet strangely alien, a society that both closely parallels our own in its heedless pursuit of pleasure and yet remains starkly at odds with our cherished values of human rights and dignity.

They have found 11 potential alien signals, none of which remained promising after further analysis.

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

And since NASA has promised the Titan team that it is next in line for an outer - planet mission, a Europa lander that could plumb the moon's depths and truly seek out alien life there remains in the realm of science fiction.

Even though the reality was much different, the fact remained that the brightness dips that have been observed around KIC 8462852 were as high as 22 percent (much too high to have been caused by any transiting planets) and very chaotic in nature, giving credence to the notion that they could have indeed been the result of alien astro - engineering on a very large scale.

Funny thing is, in a few billion years time, alien astronomers may be looking at the dusty remains of our planet drifting around our dead, white dwarf sun.

This particular fact raises a number of questions that are difficult to answer, such as how they have remained undetected for so long and why the aliens only placed the tripods here the first -LRB-?)

The first of these movies remains one of the great sci - fi horror achievements of the modern cinema, but its sequel, «Aliens,» is that rare instance where a follow - up deviates from the formula and finds an effective rhythm in propelling the story

Critics Consensus: Playing as both an exciting sci - fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.

Critic Consensus: Playing as both an exciting sci - fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.

Moore (Leland Orser, Alien Resurrection) remains silent but his tension surfaces in a constant look of constipation on his face.

Well, it sounds as though Bean will remain on Earth, which means the idea of being ripped apart by an alien horde may not be on the cards.

(Dave Bautista's ripped alien Drax remains the superfranchise's best - written character precisely because, drained of guile and irony, he is so refreshingly un-Marvel.)

It's day 89 of an alien invasion, and a family that resides at an isolated farmhouse in upstate New York remains alive by staying silent.

He was going through his most incredible period at the time of this film (Alien came in the same year as The Great Train Robbery and Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and this remains one of the most notable film scoring accomplishments.

It's a terrifyingly lyrical expression of Lena's summary statement in the book: «It creates out of our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien — one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.»

The film is at its best in long, wordless sequences that revel in the undisturbed power of nature absent the influences of man, and situate the characters within a world that is alien just because it has remained untouched.

WHAT: Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last remaining humans on Earth — a drone repairman that's part of an operation to extract vital resources from the planet after a decades - long war with an alien race known as Scavengers.

Whether or not these heights are reached again (doubtful), Alien will remain an untouchable cornerstone of 1970's cinema.

And Lena begins to understand the true alien nature of what is happening, and if the world will recover from what is happening remains to be seen, and the possibility of humanity's extinction.

I'm resisting the notion of a ranked Top 10 this year because there are enough absurdities in the real world and in pop culture without saying that Good Film A is better than Good Film B. Every movie is a two - hour window onto an alien planet; the infinite differences are what make the medium remain vibrant and mysterious.

But 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane — which debuted its first trailer in January and was released in March — was one of the most delightful unexpected surprises of the year, so we're going to remain cautiously optimistic until a militarized alien species swoops down to tell us otherwise.

At the centre of the soap opera sits Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan, Hanna), one of the last remaining humans on an Earth now ruled by Invasion of the Body Snatcher - type aliens.

Amongst the otherworldly entities, aliens remain the most common culprit, as evidenced in classics The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, more recent fare Mars Attacks!