Sentences with phrase «rift opened»

Another clue that the center of the ice shelf is weak is that the rift opened in the bottom of a «valley» in the ice shelf where the ice had thinned compared to the surrounding ice shelf.

The Permian - Triassic extinction event was likely caused by a giant volcanic rift opened in what is now Siberia, and for tens of thousands of years it dumped gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Just eight years prior, a rift opened up and demons poured out of it, into the human world.

A sample from the new pipe in Liberia, he says, could offer insight into conditions in the mantle about 150 million years ago, when a rift opened up between Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean.

But it didn't do much to heal the deep rift opened up by Cruz, with some of the most bitter comments coming from members of the New York delegation.

Following which, as in the Mainline, serious rifts opened among Catholics on social and economic issues.

Its concluding battle features a rift opening up in the sky above Manhattan; spaceships carrying alien warriors stream down toward skyscrapers, spreading death and horror.

In so doing, a rift opens up between the two and leads to the ongoing war between Professor X's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood.

You'll play as Alex, a bright young lady who brings her step - brother Jonas to a party on an old military island and is forced to deal with the fallout of the rift opening.

Bridges buckle and twist, buildings collapse, and rifts open up beneath your wheels as you drive.

As it turns out, there's a rift opening up between humans and Teks (big surprise there), and there's even something of a terrorist organization hard at work looking to totally divide the two groups.

In the images, Jeong et al. saw a rift open in the surface of the ice shelf nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) inland in 2013.

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That will open up an even broader access point for NextVR as it livestreams entertainment and sports events this year to owners of Carboard, Samsung (ssnlf) Gear VR, Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift, HTC (htc) Vive, Sony (sne) PlayStation VR, and other devices.

Social clashes take myriad forms, but one bellwether rift that has an almost perfect record of erupting into open hostility right at the onset of major downturns is in the Mideast.

Over the past two centuries, a deep rift has opened between the two groups in the Latin nations.

A minor rift between two ethnic factions, for example, can break into open warfare when aggravated by other social changes.

But the Missouri Senate candidate who claimed that women could prevent conception in cases of «legitimate rape» opened a rift in the Republican Party, with GOP chieftains pressuring him to drop out while some powerful conservative Christian activists rally to his defense.

We must remember that by the beginning of the second century a wide rift had opened up between Jew and Christian, and Christianity was primarily spreading among the Gentiles, to whom the traditions of ancient Israel were foreign, and who, on the other hand, were mostly Greek - speaking and immersed in Hellenistic culture.

In The Rebel, which caused a rift with Sartre and others on the left, he took an independent path, beginning with the opening line: «There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic.»

I knew a rift was going to open between my friend and me when she brought her two year old over to play with my children.

The proposal seemingly opened a rift between members within the GOP conference that holds a narrow majority in the Senate.

The issue opened not only yet another rift with City Hall but also NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and several state lawmakers.

However, yet another rift had opened up between the mayor and the governor.

As the budget process progressed through early 2014, yet another rift was opening up between the Cuomo and de Blasio.

The same - sex marriage bill has opened up deep rifts between the different factions within the Tory party.

The argument among Democrats is increasingly becoming an open — and familiar — rift between the White House and the Hill, and Rep. Anthony Weiner piled on in response to Gibbs.

The issue opened not only yet another rift with City Hall but also City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and several state lawmakers — and it's not as harsh as originally planned.

Wineman's intervention sent panic through the Tory party and opened deep rifts in the Jewish hierarchy, a large part of which is desperate for Cameron to win next year's election.

But just in time for Cuomo to celebrate his Democratic leadership and progressive bona fides, a rift has blown wide open between the governor and activist groups that have been at the forefront of some of Cuomo's most noteworthy legislative victories.

And incumbent councilman Mike Reynolds, whose term is coming to an end but was not endorsed for reelection by the Dems — «due to my rift with the supervisor,» in Reynolds» words — instead got the Republican nod to run for one of the two open Town Board slots.

He denied the contest would open up a family rift.

Einstein's theories also opened a rift in physics because the rules of general relativity (which describe gravity and the large - scale structure of the cosmos) seem incompatible with those of quantum physics (which govern the realm of the tiny).

The science of global warming has opened rifts in U.S. classrooms like evolution before it, but teaching it differently may improve science literacy overall

The push to peak global emissions and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius has opened rifts over whether the world should embrace stepping stones like nuclear and natural gas power or go full tilt toward a 100 percent zero - carbon renewable energy economy.

But reconnection opens rifts in Earth's magnetic defenses, allowing solar particles to pelt the planet.

«People have wondered for a long time what rifted off there, and I think it was probably North America, opening up this deep seaway,» Dalziel said.

The Traps (India) have a thickness of < 3000 m and cover an area of c. 100 000 km2 that initially erupted within a continental rift setting and eventually transitioned into the opening of a nascent ocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmeria.

In addition, you can take your spoils from quests to open up Nephalim Rifts.

As the title character, a guy pausing at mid-life to lick his wounds, heal some old rifts and maybe open a few new ones, Stiller manages quite a nice performance.

Then a figure comes on a TV screen and talks about «the Cloverfield paradox,» which appears to have nothing to do with either Cloverfield or paradoxes but does involve the danger of the space station's technology opening up dimensional rifts and releasing «monsters, demons, beasts from the sea.»

In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.

In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

The story is quite simple at its core: the evil villain Lord Vortech has opened dimensional rifts in the homes of many beloved Lego characters, causing chaos in their worlds.

The particle accelerator incident depicted in The Cloverfield Paradox is the central catalyst which creates the events of all previous Cloverfield movies, opening up rifts in time and space, distorting reality and dragging monsters from across alternate dimensions.

If that kind of huge, open world ready for exploration seems like a perfect fit for the Oculus Rift, that's probably because it is.

Called «Arrival», the amazingly realistic video shows an epic, but very «normal» battle that is interrupted by something otherworldly known as a Dark Anchor opening a rift into Molag Bal's realm.

This seemingly innocuous events tears open a rift between husband and wife, slowly forced wider through jealousy and paranoia and shifty deeds as it becomes more and more apparent that Kate just might not be the love of Geoff's life after all.

The bitter rift that opened between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of the 1962 movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

This storyline saw a dimensional rift known as the «Fault» open into the Marvel Universe, connecting it to the «Cancerverse,» a realm where death doesn't exist, and life runs rampant like a cancer.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.