Sentences with phrase «widespread death by»

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That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

That is a crime that can be punishable by death in the country, which is known for widespread disregard for religious freedoms.

The widespread misunderstanding that the New Testament teaches the immortality of the soul was actually encouraged by the rock - like post-Easter conviction of the first disciples that the bodily Resurrection of Christ had robbed death of all its horror, (But hardly in such a way that the original Christian community could speak of «natural» dying.

Though the conduct of the election itself was peaceful, jubilations by people associated with the NPP after the results were announced has been characterised by reports of widespread attacks on NDC supporters with some reported deaths.

Heroin and opioid use has been recognized as a growing and widespread problem across Westchester County, New York state and the country; the rate of deaths caused by opioids in the county has quadrupled since 2010, according to Westchester officials.

Death by Chemicals: The Syrian Government's Widespread and Systematic Use of Chemical Weapons.

New research results, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published today in the Journal of Ecology, suggest that as pine stands are increasingly fragmented by widespread tree death, surviving trees may be hindered in their ability to produce their usually abundant seeds.

Machines also mass - produced theses delicate fabrics for the first time, which gave women of every social class access to them, making death by fire a widespread phenomenon.

Her call to rebellion against the oppressive central government led by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) led to widespread death and destruction.

In 2000, I wrote a short paper entitled «Death of the Risk Premium,» with Ron Ryan, which was received with widespread derision, but ultimately proved correct: plain old 10 - year government bonds have produced higher returns than stocks since then, by a cumulative margin of over 30 %, despite the durable bull market since 2002.

[And due to widespread political patronage (i.e. lobbying), judging by Barrett's planning comments in the next video] Which delivered an oddly static commuting experience for decades — roads got faster & faster, towns got slower & slower... In the end, the towns cried uncle, after being strangled to death by all - day traffic — a motorway network was finally built out over the last two decades.

It was 2006 — a year before a spate of pet deaths and illnesses caused by contaminated food triggered widespread pet food recalls.

According to new research, drought damage will likely cause widespread forest death by the 2050s as a result of climate change.

Widespread burning of ethanol as fuel may increase the number of respiratory - related deaths and hospitalizations relative to gasoline, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson.

While it shouldn't be too surprising that there are people who deny PA (people deny moon landings, Elvis Presley's death, and the Holocaust, etc.), it should be unacceptable that continued PA denials by a vocal minority of professionals, who ignore overwhelming international evidence, facilitate the widespread and unrestrained alienation efforts by parents which continue to cause significant damage to adults and children.

Cervical cancer used to be a top killer in developed nations — and it remains a major cause of death in countries without widespread health - care access — but in the last 50 years, cervical cancer deaths fell by 70 percent in the United States, transforming cervical cancer from the leading cause of cancer death among American women to a less common, nearly preventable cancer.

By contrast, in countries like the United States, where contraceptive use is widespread and abortion is safe and legal, serious injury and death from abortion are virtually nonexistent.