Sentences with phrase «wiped out much»

The gritty story focuses on a man named Joel and a young girl named Ellie as the two fight to survive in the American wasteland following a devastating pandemic that has wiped out much of the population.

Humans are analogous to the purported meteorite that wiped out much of life on Earth millions of years ago.

Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and wiped out much of its school facilities, but the process of rebuilding it provided what then - Governor Kathleen Blanco called a «golden opportunity» to remake the entire school system.

The story is set in the aftermath of an undead apocalypse which has wiped out much of the world's population, and sees Pitt playing a U.N. researcher investigating the outbreak.

A new analysis of European tree - ring samples suggests that mild summers may have been the key to the rise of the Roman Empire — and that prolonged droughts, cold snaps, and other climate changes might have played a part in historical upheavals, from the barbarian invasions that brought about Rome's collapse to the Black Death that wiped out much of medieval Europe.

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

And when superstorm Sandy wiped out much of New York City's power grid in 2012, Co-op City in the Bronx had its own generators and grid, so its lights stayed on.

New York officials are preparing for a rise in the number of Puerto Ricans relocating to the state, following back - to - back hurricanes that wiped out much of the U.S. territory's infrastructure.

Late in the sixth century and in the course of the seventh century the Angles and Saxons, who had wiped out much of the Christianity of Britain, accepted the faith which had once been their prey.

stocks ended sharply lower Tuesday, as a selloff in the technology sector fueled a rout that wiped out much of Monday's sizable gains.

If you don't have access to raw milk and you are using store bought, do not buy ultra-pasteurized dairy products for your base as this process wipes out much of the good bacteria in the dairy product.

Sea level fell substantially, wiping out much of the shallow - water habitat surrounding major landmasses.

After a lethal virus ravages and wipes out much of Tokyo, city officials administer the construction of a wall around the city and place severe restrictions on the lives of residents.

So, instead of killing off a few folks, the antagonists in this book want to wipe out much of the world's population.

But should our generation's «decision» to wipe out much of Earth's biodiversity be carried out, the consequences could plague our descendants for a hundred thousand generations or more.

That 2 - 3 % often wipes out much of the value of any points you'd earn on such purchases, making these cards a break - even value proposition when traveling.

«The statistical significance of these results is far too strong to be merely dismissed, and should wipe out much of the uncertainty about the reality of global warming,» said lead author Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Not exact matches

«We're pretty much back to where we were at the beginning of the year, so a lot of the dollar weakness has been pretty much wiped out,» said Sireen Harajli, foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho in New York.

It's these bleaching events that have rapidly wiped out so much of the Great Barrier Reef.

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

Marijuana could get more expensive after a series of massive fires in Northern California wiped out as much as a year's supply for some industry growers.

These writedowns effectively wipe out a substantial portion of the earnings growth of the past 5 years, making the actual earnings performance much more mundane.

For a few years during the heyday of the 1920s bubble, Germany was able to do just this, borrowing more than half of its reparation payments from the US markets, but much of this borrowing occurred because the great hyperinflation of the early 1920s had wiped out the country's debt burden.

Much like the buildup of plaque deposits in human veins and arteries, an accumulation of debt gained momentum exponentially until the economy crashed, wiping out bad debts — along with savings on the other side of the balance sheet.

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).

Do they not understand that for future prospective returns to normalize even moderately over the completion of the current market cycle (as they have done over the completion of every market cycle in history), much of those past realized returns must be wiped out?

I've spent much of my time looking through history to read up on how the failure to wipe out the debt overhead led to the collapse of Rome's imperial republic, and to the Ottoman Empire as what was known as «the spoiling of Egypt» and «the ruin of Persia» toward the end of the 19th century.

Manufacturing output surged 0.8 % in February, nearly wiping out a 0.9 % drop the previous month that the Fed said resulted from extreme winter weather that hit much of the country.

If you have 50 dollars of assets for every dollar of equity, it doesn't take much of a decline in your asset values to wipe out your equity.

Who would have forecasted that «AAA» assets would underperform «BBB» assets, and if you are levered at 50 to one, it doesn't take much of a decline in your asset values to wipe out your equity and that is exactly what happened to many financial institutions.

There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.

They can not afford to get in too much contentions with the Islamic world because of economical interests, and that is the reason why they do not wipe out the Islamic terrorists from the earth immediately.

Is there an aid group or something out there that can help these people to get away from their insane neighbors who want to kill them (freely admitting that the majority of iraqi muslims are not murderers... that much said, it only takes one crazy person with a gun and a full ammo clip to wipe out a family)... somebody do something...

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

Apparently God hates gays and liberals so much he takes it out on anyone in the path of his hurricanes... Of course he is unable to clean his church of pedophiles but have a gay parade and he'll wipe out New Orleans...

This is my body... take and eat this bread... a very high - strung child... no, too much candy is all... honestly, they've ruined this dress... get me a wet cloth, and when I wake up they're pulling my arms out of my sleeves as the other children mill around, cacophonous and released, and my mother is bending over me, wiping my face until I'm cold.

He was a devout catholic who tried to wipe out the atheists just as much as the Jews.

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.

Just goes to show you that there are some in the Christian community that would resort to violence and bullying LGBT people... I know that there are plenty of Christians who aren't that deluded but there are a vocal minority like this sorry excuse for a man that hates what he doesn't understand so much that they feel it is their responsibility to wipe it out.

But the cult of such men dies with the earthly cities which they have made flourish through some accidental invention (vanishing like the epidemic that it has wiped out) without much regard for their true personality.

How much experience do you need to wipe off tables and take out the garbage?

The recipe uses far too much cinnamon, and it managed to wipe out the taste of the peanut butter for the most part.

I've had my book for almost 2 weeks now and it's pretty much covered in food from trying out all the recipes, but also good job on the shiny paper that wipes clean (well, except for the oil stains).

It's not like I have much good bacteria in there to wipe out, anyway.

They got a much needed Hoops W on Monday Night against Team Bohrer and were able to somewhat wipe the bad taste out of their mouths from Week 4 Softball a couple weeks back against Team Shlofrock.

Arizona blowing it in the 4th quarter pretty much wiped out any chance for a profitable weekend.»

However, Rooney doesn't see it getting much easier next season either for the Red Devils, as he suggested that he believes it will be difficult for Jose Mourinho to wipe out that gap in general between the two sides next year.

I wipe down the seat with toilet paper, then lay out strips of toilet paper all over the seat so as much of it is covered as possible, especially the center front.

The bad side is when you pull out one wipe, the next wipe will come out of the package a bit too much before letting the first one come loose.

It doesn't warm it that much & since I don't use it but for night / early mornings, it dried out my wipes & the pad in the bottom turned hard & brown.