Sentences with phrase «threatened by this fate»

Chinese cities and even provinces are already threatened by this fate.

Not exact matches

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

Left unclear by the video, which was posted on a Twitter account associated with the Islamic State's media organization, al Furqan, was the fate of a Jordanian pilot, whom the extremists also threatened to kill if Jordan did not release the would - be bomber, Sajida al - Rishawi.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

And he threatened to ensure that Gove suffered the same fate as a Game of Thrones character who was locked in a dungeon and castrated when he said of Gove: «He is actually Theon Greyjoy or will be by the time I am finished with him.»

U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, Calif., on April 29 ordered the Bush administration to stop dragging its feet on the fate of polar bears and decide by May 15 whether declining sea ice in the Arctic threatens their existence.

When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, audiences can only pray for the same fate.

Add the irreverence of inter-dimensional antics, an incompatible buddy dynamic and an offbeat branch of law enforcement, and the parallels are further cemented; so too, in the threatening of the world's fate by an intricate occult scheme, and the need to protect the Earth's ordinary inhabitants from both the knowledge and consequences of such unusual goings on.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

And Jones lives up to that praise in the highly charged epic adventure of Ash March and Raif Sevrance, two outcasts whose fates are entwined by fate and by need, in the cold, dark world that threatens to be torn asunder by a war to end all wars.

Sure, Princess Zelda has been imprisoned in crystal, the land of Hyrule overun by monsters, and the very fate of the world threatened by the power - hungry machinations of the evil lord Ganondorf, but it's not like those chickens are going to catch themselves.

Control Star - Lord and the other Guardians as a crowd and determine the fate of the galaxy as it is threatened by Thanos.

These two, lone - wolf heroes thrown together by fate must learn to fight as one to defeat the powerful enemies that threaten Draconis, Earth and a vast universe of parallel worlds.»

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It is to be hoped that this solution will be applied, otherwise the BC project is threatened by the same fate as that of other systems: abandonment by disuse.

Follow Van Helsing, monster hunter extraordinaire and his deadly, but charming ghost companion, Lady Katarina in an alternative Gothic - noir Europe, where a strange twist of fate brings the hunter to the aid of the monsters of Borgovia, threatened by a menace even more frightening than they ever used to be.