Sentences with phrase «with other calamities»

Combined with other calamities, we find ourselves in a two - front war: Fire and heat that ravage inland communities, and massively destructive storms that damage coastal zones.

Not exact matches

So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»

I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a person who sacrificially gives of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately rises into glory,» is no coincidence.

The danse macabre in the Middle East, the Israel - Palestinian conflict, the torrent of diabolic weapons showered by the U. S. for the use of Afghan rebels who first hung noble President Najibullah on a street pole and then indulged in mutual massacre flooding with blood the snow - white mountains (the sombre slaughter, even amidst natural calamities, is still unabated) and other holocausts baffle description.

Whatever plan it followed, it would seem to be a calamity which the church need not add to her many other lost opportunities, to allow the cure and care of the drunkard to fall entirely into the hands of science, which admittedly needs all the help that faith in God can give in dealing with an ill so largely spiritual as the excessive use of alcohol.

I do not deal with the other facet of guardianship that the goddess epitomized protection against disease death, and natural calamity.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

She unflinchingly blasted «the omnipotence of a heavenly being who decrees suffering» 40 as a manifestation of either «Christian masochism» (the calamities we accept as somehow God's will) or «Christian sadism» (the calamities we inflict on others in God's name), or both.41 There is «no way to combine omnipotence with love.»

Then there are costs relating to other typical safety issues like the notorious slips and falls, burns and other such calamities associated with hot oil — a key culprit that, itself, racks up an oppressive glut of Workers» Compensation claims.

Any manager with his finger on the pulse of the team would realise that Jack Wilshere brings absolutely NOTHING to the team other than calamity and laziness and when you play players out of position they are unlikely to perform to their best.

While their ineffectiveness and poor strategic value for the cost are reasons why militaries don't tend to stock and deploy them, like any other overpriced ineffective weapon, it does not answer the question of why people have a phobia of chemical weapons to the point where slaughtering hundreds of thousands with conventional weapons is fairly unremarkable but merely a thousand with chemical weapons is a worldwide calamity and affront to the species as a whole.

Others among the first ten are Katsina state in the seventh position garnering N44.80 billion, Oyo hits number eight with N43.78 billion, Kaduna manages with number nine position with N42.60 billion and the tenth place surprisingly goes to Borno State, with N39.63 bn despite the calamities that have befallen the North Eastern state.

Other good but different places would be holiday parties, birthday parties (go for the birthday girl) and even taking advantage of time, as in Valentine's day or a recent calamity that threatens the world, which makes women seize the moment and sleep with some random guy.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

Of course, this is not news to those who have suffered through other calamities, with familiar names, like Katrina, Isabel, Andrew, and other unnamed disasters that have been equally debilitating, even if not as widespread or well known.

«Part of the reduced lifespan of unaltered pets can be attributed to their increased urge to roam, which exposes them to fights with other animals, getting struck by cars, and other calamities.»

Calamity really enjoys playing with other dogs and gets along with other dogs well.

With the original descendants of the rugged settlers now as entrenched in the Pacific Northwest as the red flannel shirt, Seattle has developed a rich and diverse multi-cultural mix, overcoming boom and bust, fires, earthquakes, and other calamities which have hit the city regularly during its 160 years.

Led by Princess Zelda with the Champion hero chosen by the sword that seals the darkness at her side, the other four Champions were tasked with piloting the Divine Beasts and providing back - up as Link and Zelda face the Calamity head - on in an attempted to seal it away.

Zelda is the one who has prevented Hyrule from falling to the dark force that threatens it, and Link's requirement to «save» her seems to reflect more the general lack of faith in Zelda sustaining her power that these various characters have, since as the only one capable of holding Calamity Ganon at bay — and, ultimately, defeating it, after Link manages to undermine its power — this is the story of Zelda saving Hyrule with Link's help, and not the other way around.

PS4 Version has: • 1080p at 60 fps • There is a «side story» after each chapter now — this gives you more insight into the main cast • There is the After Story I mentioned — this is a new chapter with about 4 - 6 hours gameplay • You can now play as the White Shadow and a new version of Asuka • New dungeons • New enemy types • A new difficulty called Calamity (which is very hard and required for the platinum) • A time attack mode • A Boss Rush mode for taking on the bosses (accessed from the main menu) • A new page of NPCs to interact within the NiAR • Other changes within the game for balance and progression.

After Calamity Ganon's defeat, Mipha can be seen on top of Hyrule Castle with the other Champions» spirits and King Rhoam.

The larger question is... how long will it take for others to follow and will it be too late by then to successfully adapt with minimal calamity?

The message would resonate with more people if it were launched during a heat wave or following some other natural calamity that could be blamed on global warming (which I assume is the global climate crisis referred to by video).

The graph, which was added to his talk last year, came just after a sequence of images of people from Iowa to South Australia struggling with drought, wildfire, flooding and other weather - related calamities.

If you are located in a place which is more disaster prone or faces natural calamities like earthquakes, tsunami, hurricane very often, you would be paying a higher premium as the likelihood of you getting affected with it are higher than people living in other locations.

Road disasters can happen anytime and to be able to anticipate such a calamity is what defensive driving teaches, for example, assured clearance distance from other vehicles on the road and the two second rules along with the awareness and practice of some specific driving techniques.