Sentences with phrase «total collapse into»

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The formidable pedagogy developed by the church to inculcate the person of Christ into the total world view and ethos of Christian life has today largely failed, the house of authority, to use Edward Farley's image, having collapsed.1

I believe (as do a growing number of economists) that we are on a tipping point and literally staring into the abyss of total economic collapse.

Today's report comes as a government inquiry is underway into the Farepak Christmas savings scheme which collapsed earlier this month, leaving 150,000 customers - many of whom are on low incomes - out of pocket to a combined total of # 35 million.

He said, «There is need to inject fresh blood into the anti-graft war to save Nigeria from total collapse.

Taking into account the sizes of the boulders, the height of the plateaus, and the local topography, they estimate that a single tsunami resulting from the sudden, total collapse of the volcano's flank must have run up on Santiago to elevations of more than 270 meters above sea level.

One potential problem is that the atmosphere may condense into large ice caps on the frigid night side of these planets, which could result in total atmosphere collapse and the loss of habitable conditions.

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

Similarly, the movie settles into the same narrative arc as a typical «Behind the Music» episode: total obscurity, a big break, massive success, utter collapse, optimistic coda.

After Calgary - based Bre - X collapsed in the wake of a gold - mining fraud, the total losses for its thousands of shareholders ran into the billions.

So when the northern part of the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed into the sea in March 2002, it was not a total surprise.