Sentences with phrase «wiped out about»

The disease has now wiped out about 80 percent of the fierce animals.

The devil facial tumor disease has wiped out about 80 percent of the Tasmanian devil's population since it was discovered.

THE Black Death infamously wiped out about a third of Europe's population in the 14th century, but until now there was no firm evidence that bubonic plague was the cause.

Thousands of giant clams are being ferried by the Royal Australian Navy to secret locations on the Great Barrier Reef in an attempt to prevent poaching — a practice that almost wiped them out about twenty years ago.

Since devil facial tumor disease was first discovered in 1996, it has wiped out about 80 percent of the Tasmanian devil population.

The storm was particularly costly for the agriculture industry: «In a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico,» the New York Times reports.

With news of Google banning cryptocurrency - related ads and the International Monetary Fund advising increased regulation on the asset, the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple continued their slide Thursday, wiping out about $ 499.2 billion of the market value of over 1,500 cryptocurrencies since their collective all - time high in early January.

The global financial crisis initially slammed the brakes on the nation's economic expansion, wiping out about 20 million export - related jobs — this in a country where anything under 8 % growth is generally considered to be too slow for social comfort.

«The uproar pushed Facebook's stock down 6.8 % to $ 172.56 Monday, wiping out about $ 36 billion in market value.»

As a purely financial matter, Netflix's quarterly report should not have precipitated the absolute shellacking that the company's stock suffered after - hours Monday, wiping out about $ 1 billion in shareholder equity.

An average bear market within a «secular» bear market period (a period generally about 17 - 18 years, where valuations begin at rich levels and achieve progressively lower levels over the course of 3 - 4 separate bull - bear cycles) is about 39 %, and wipes out about 80 % of the preceding bull market advance.

First home prices collapsed, wiping out about a third of the value of American homes.

Not exact matches

This will not be the wipe - out scenario that some of the perma - bears out there have been warning about for the past eight years.»

But the authors make no bones about the bleak future of most corporations, and predict a «Great Adjustment» that will wipe out returns on equity investments.

Swetlishoff says the outbreak has wiped out 80 % of the region's pine trees, and pine makes up about 40 % of the trees in interior B.C.

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

After all, the federal government will add about another $ 165 billion to our tab before our books are expected balance again, and will quickly wipe out all the debt repayment gains it's made since the mid-1990s.

It pretty much wiped out any normalcy bias about what to expect from our political or economic systems.

AI critics have warned about the threat to the job market, and according to a recent report from the World Economic Forum, over five million jobs could be wiped out globally in the next five years due to the rise of robots.

What it's about: A secret agent pulls together a misfit but profesional team to find and destroy a genetically modified disease that could wipe out humanity.

But the good takeaways I got were about how being obsessed wipes out zero free time / wasted time.

Markets for ether, the cryptocurrency linked to the ethereum distributed computing platform, were rocked yesterday by a huge flash crash that saw prices fall from over $ 365 down to as low as 10 cents on one exchange before bouncing back shortly afterwards — an event that is mildly worrying for anyone concerned about cryptocurrency volatility, but has had devastating consequences for some professional traders who have seen their holdings wiped out.

But, what about those retail investors who invested in those financials and saw their shareholder equity wiped out?

And Trump's team has talked of wiping out bilateral trade deficits — a move that trade experts call «economic nonsense» and one that could be a red line for Peña Nieto, who is worried about being seen as bowing to Trump on unreasonable demands.

A handy number to throw around at the water cooler: Facebook stock has dropped about 18 percent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, «wiping out almost $ 100 billion of market value,» Bloomberg News writes.

Since the iconic iPhone maker was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on March 18, shares have fallen a massive 17 %, wiping out nearly $ 100 billion in market cap as investors have become increasingly worried about China's economy, slowing iPhone sales and mixed enthusiasm about the Apple Watch.

In Strategic Total Return, we continue to carry an average duration of about 3 years in Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interest.

I expect that the completion of the current market cycle will wipe out the entire excess total return of the S&P 500 Index all the way back to about October 1997.

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

When you hear about floods wiping out a town in Texas, do you donate to the Red Cross?

Like the third soil the cares of the world consume this BELIEVER and what he is worried about, concerned with and concentrating on gets wiped out by the storms.

One beautiful woman told about how she had seen someone worshipping with a purple and orange flag one time and how it reminded her of the story of the woman with the alabaster box of perfume, how that woman ran to Jesus leaping over conventions to smash that box open at his feet and poured out all of her treasure for him and weep and wipe his feet with her hair, longing for forgiveness and I swear the warehouse began to smell of perfume.

He said he regretted making mankind but then must have felt bad about destroying them as well since he then invented light refraction so that rainbows would appear to remind us that he won't wipe us out with a flood ever again.

From about a.d. 1500, the missionary efforts of Jesuits and others were quite successful, but for reasons of international and domestic politics, the Tokugawa dynasty (c. 1600 - 1868) opted to methodically wipe out Christianity.

Or that lovely one about Noah in the ark with all his animals, while most of humanity was wiped out in a flood?

Religion is about ignoring the fact that hundreds of thousands if innocents were wiped out in the last two Tsunamis.

You mention about wiping out civilizations and even point out that it sounds bad, but we still have to trust this ever - loving god that he's doing the right thing, why?

The catholic Church took a long time to wipe out the idea if they truly have, since we're still talking about it.

According to the 1951 convention, genocide involves an intention to wipe out a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another people group.

Suppose I could, say by ablating the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, very specifically wipe out someone's ability to feel spiritual or feel anything about the presence or existence of the supernatural (like C.S. Lewis» the Nouminous).

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

The early settlers wiped out a bunch of native americans and i'm sure they celebrated about that afterwards.

Something important that escapes a lot of people is that the Old City of Jerusalem was laid to waste about 40 times throughout its history, that wiped out significant places and their remnants, like the Temple of Solomon.

Based on what I have written about in the Chaos theory and in my analysis of the flood texts, I would say that evil people wiped themselves out.

Those dictators tried to wipe out religion in their countries and killed millions of innocent people... so don't give me that crap about religion killing more than anyone else... Christian Evangelicals and Protestants do more to feed the poor, hungry and sick in this world than any other groups...

Think about the fact that somebody has their finger near a red button that could wipe out millions, possibly billions of people, and that person just might feel strongly in an afterlife, a rapture, a heaven and hell so to pull that trigger they are just moving people on to what they have decided is the next phase of humanity, not murder.

Christianity is about more than pro-life or wiping out abortion.

People talked about a new age where prosperity would wipe out destitution.

This is one treaty and it does not in any way wipe out the truth about the history of our country and our founding principles.

Through the death and resurrection of that Son, God wiped out our sinful past, joined us to himself in an everlasting and unbreakable covenant, gave us instructions about how to live until his Son comes again to set up his rule over all the earth, and promised, to all who trust his ways and work, eternal life and joy in his kingdom which will have no end.