Sentences with phrase «which wiped out»

The area was explored by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, resulting in violent conflicts and the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out the original native cultures.

They looked at the deep time period, which ran from the Eocene Epoch to the mass extinction of the Pleistocene period around 12,000 years ago, which wiped out creatures such as saber - toothed tigers, mammoths and the giant sloth.

Instead, visiting ships brought epidemics of new diseases which wiped out the majority of the population — with most of the remnants later carted off in slave raids.

It was a historical event perhaps only comparable to the era's Permian mass extinction, which wiped out an estimated 96 % -LSB-...]

Bastion takes place in a world that's been decimated by an event called the Calamity, which wiped out most of the human race and left behind a whole lot of monsters.

Unfortunately my camera decided to have a major SD Card error which wiped out all of my photos from our trip (argh!!!!) but thankfully Sorcerer Mickey was able to photo bomb a few of the photos in my wife's camera.

At one point, I crossed some train tracks in advance of an oncoming train, which wiped out my team.

Newts, which are also opportunistic hunters, are adolescents that were infected by the global epidemic which wiped out most of the earth's population two years ago.

After Thanos did his whole snap of the fingers thing which wiped out half the universe the Infinity Gauntlet didn't look so good.

In total, just over 10,000 people have died — an awful toll but hardly comparable to the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed around 50 million, or the Black Death, which wiped out half the population of Europe in the 14th century.

The largest of these events (the most recent, which wiped out the dinosaurs, was 66 million years ago) have collectively become known as the «Five Mass Extinctions.»

The cause of the Cretaceous - Paleogene (KPg) mass extinction, which wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and roughly three - quarters of the planet's plant and animal species about 66 million years ago, has been debated for decades.

They were then given antibiotics, which wiped out much of their gut flora, before ingesting a potentially fatal gut - irritating chemical.

The planting marks the first time in memory that American Chestnut seedlings have been planted at their namesake county park and begins a re-introduction plan that will eventually see these trees cross-pollinated with chestnut strains that are resistant to the blight which wiped out thousands of their forebears in the Park and across WNY.

Attorney Steven Molo notified the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that he'd like to ask the high court to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to do so.

Kekes» example of religiously inspired atrocities is the thirteenth - century Catholic Church's crusade against the Cathars, which wiped them out — along with many who had little or nothing to do with them.

The user then «suicided» the wallet contract, which wiped out a bunch of code and left millions upon millions of dollars in ether inaccessible.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

And then there's the recession, which wiped out retirement funds right as many boomers were about to start needing them.

While high radiation doses can eventually cause cancer, the immediate health effect is to destroy dividing cells — including blood cells — which wipes out the immune system.

Most people believe they need probiotics for those reasons, but the only scientifically - proven benefits for probiotics thus far are in treating diarrhea, particularly after taking antibiotics (which wipes out all gut bacteria, good and bad).

More inflammation, more bacterial overgrowth, maybe a bout of antibiotics thrown in for good measure which wipes out the bacteria, leaving a clean slate and prompting another mad dash by microbes to fill the vacancies, and the result is — potentially — a permanently altered / disrupted distribution of gut flora both supporting and supported by chronic systemic inflammation.

The first and key cause of Candida overgrowth is the antibiotic therapy, which wipes out both friendly as well as pathogenic bacteria.

These include a high sugar diet, which feed candida and other yeasts, excessive oral antibiotic usage, which wipes out friendly bacteria, and too many chemicals in foods which do the same.

It must contend with stress, irregular circadian rhythms, gluten - based diets, sedentary indoor lifestyles, chemically processed and artificially preserved foods, hyperhygiene and antibiotics, which wipe out all the beneficial microbes in your gut!

Step 2) Sign out of your account (not Facebook account) Step 3) It does a factory reset, which wipes out...

In theory, yes, however the few mortgage companies that I've found that do accept CC payments tack on a service fee, which wipes out any cash back benefit.

For instance, sometimes trying to pay a mortgage or taxes can come with a convenience fee which wipes out any rewards.

On the surface, this policy appears to tick every good box and only 2 bad boxes: dental is cheaper if you pay out - of - pocket no matter what the cost, and it won't cover you at sea (which wipes out quite a bit of fun stuff).

Things are pretty heavy from the start, within just an hour or two of gaming you have a load of information thrown at you; you're a trainee Dragon Slayer who has to have the memories of a Dragon implanted in your mind, which wipes out all of your years of training (how convenient) and then you're told that this may make you go mental.

STEPHEN Hawking fears Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement could be the «tipping point» which wipes out humanity and turns our planet into a living hell.

And while using concentrating optics permits more electric power per unit area of photovoltaic cells (this has been known for decades), this is only effective if the whole assembly tracks the sun, which wipes out the entire cost advantage — why it is not being used to any significant extent.

It also seems that Rajt is quite myopic in her criticisms of factory farming, because as opposed to Niman's nuanced arguments, she completely fails to acknowledge the very serious problems of factory farmed monocrops, which wipe out entire ecosystems, turn our topsoil into a desert wasteland, and release massive amounts of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

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The pair runs tech giant Alphabet's ambitious Jigsaw project, which aims to wipe out censorship, curb fake news, and aid free expression with online tools.

With bonds facing default, no one wants to buy the equity, which tends to get wiped out.

This took three years of focused budgeting and willpower, but I'm happy to say that I completely wiped out my student loans, credit card debt and all but the last $ 1,500 of my car loan — which is on track to be paid off in September.

Eden Energy, which is seeking to commericalise its innovative concrete product, is looking to wipe out its debt by completing a $ 6.1 million capital raising, with its major shareholder committing to over a third of the offer.

Overfishing has wiped out fish populations that help maintain a healthy food chain, which has allowed destructive algae to kill off corals.

After filming with a practical puppet of TARS, the visual effects team made minor edits which included taking out some wires, physical props and rigs, and wiping out any instances of Irwin in the film.

Equally unnerving, at least for investors, is Beijing's apparent inability to erect a floor under its volatile stock market, which first hit a wall earlier this summer wiping out trillions.

More bad news for seniors: Medicare Part B premiums, which are usually deducted from Social Security payments, are expected to increase next year to the point in which they will probably wipe out the entire COLA.

Then the cells are taken to Novartis» manufacturing facility in New Jersey, at which point the cells are reengineered to recognize cancer cells and wipe them out.

The so - called configuration management tool, Ansible, has a feature that prevents the type of catastrophic event the man described in which a single software script can wipe out every server a company maintains.

There are monthly Google algorithm updates which could theoretically wipe out 70 - 80 % of this site's entire traffic.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

«I got wiped out personally in 1968, which was the last really crazy, silly stock market before the Internet era... I became a great reader of history books.

With the deal, Birchbox's other investors — which include top venture capital firms including Accel Partners and First Round Capital — are getting wiped out, and are expected to walk away with nothing.

When the process has run its course, they threaten their work force with bankruptcy that will wipe out its pension benefits if employees do not agree to «downsize» their claims and replace defined - benefit plans with defined - contribution plans (in which all that employees know is how much they pay in each month, not what they will get in the end).

They base their trading decisions on random factors, which often results in them wiping out their initial capital in a fairly short period More...

A lot of money is also paid to «professionals» who skim huge salaries and benefits to put money to work with hedge funds and private equity funds, most of which will be wiped out in the next big bear market.