Sentences with phrase «writing about the destruction»

Hugh Howey writes about the destruction of the world for a living.

The only upside about writing about the destruction of Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests for palm oil plantations is that I get wonderful comments calling me an idiot from the Palm Oil Truth Foundation, a cheesy website run by

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The images were a literary device of St John the Divine to write about the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D by the Roman legions under the command of Nero.

When Peter writes in 2 Peter 2:5 that the flood was brought upon the people at the time of Noah, Peter uses the exact same word he uses in 2:1 to write about how the false teachers brought destruction upon themselves (Gk., epagō, «to bring upon»).

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Two months later, complaining about Karlstadt's destruction of statues, vestments, etc., Luther wrote, «In the name of the University we shall call him back... to his office of the Word».

Grant Brisbee wrote about how difficult it has been, historically, to come back from 2 - 10 or worse, and even put together a table so you can see all the destruction for yourself.

-- The New York Post Praise for PRETTY: «Jillian Lauren writes with stunning, furious authenticity about self - destruction and the bitter road toward redemption.

(NaturalHealth365) Since writing about the 9 legal weapons of mass destruction, I think it's about time to expand the list.

The destruction of Erabor is a massive CGI set piece that reminds of LOTR, while the sequence in The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventure.

The former explored the ethical intricacies of writing about the lives of others, while the latter dissected the creator's fragile ego and its tendency for self - destruction.

Honestly, I don't know what screenwriter Joe Stillman (writing off an» «original» idea» (the secondary quotations are added for emphasis) by a whole list of people, including director Jorge Blanco) is trying to do by setting the world in a kinda - Earth environment with a kinda - period feeling with a kinda - but - not - really vibe of paranoid fear about the mass indoctrination or destruction by an unknown threat.

It was not to be, as Impostor is a rather old - fashioned paranoia thriller, very similar to the types of stories written during the McCarthy era, with people worried about the motivation of their fellow man and whether they were the seekers of their own people's destruction.

She has reported from Paris, Cambodia, Indonesia and Africa where she commuted between Angola and Mozambique writing about death, destruction, diamonds and disease; after which she took a posting in Chechnya, three months after it gained independence from the Soviet Union.

That led to a similar job in Africa, commuting between Angola and Mozambique and writing about death, destruction, diamonds and disease, and later to a posting in a country that stopped being the Soviet Union three months after she arrived.

Some speculate that Nietzsche intended to write about final acts of creation and destruction brought about by Zarathustra.

But it's impossible to write about these things without also mentioning the destruction (although it seems Bakdash and Naranj and Pages are still open for business, which cheers me).

After the destruction of hundreds of poorly built schools in China's Sichuan province, I wrote repeatedly here and in print about similar vulnerability identified by engineers and seismologists in that state, despite the clear record of devastating quakes and tsunamis generated by the Cascadia fault beneath the sea bed off the Northwest coast.

I wrote about the incredible swath of destruction and five deaths (four campers and a motorist) caused by a smaller derecho in the Adirondacks in 1995 — one of four such storm systems triggered along the northern edge of a heat wave that July — so this one really elicited a sense of awe.

In A Sense of Wonder, Carson wrote: «I believe that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we will have for destruction.»

He wrote articles about conservation for numerous magazines including The Century, in which he exposed the destruction of forests and meadows in the mountains.

They might have gone on to say that no laws were broken, or to make a case about why it was entirely appropriate for Mann to facilitate the destruction of this portion of the IPCC review / writing record — after all whose f**king business is it if IPCC Lead Authors toss the rules and engage in unrecorded, backroom re-writing of key sections of disputed text with the help of partisan authors whose involvement as contributors or reviewers is not revealed in the report.

For example, since there are well - developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

One expert recognised that the lack of written historical records, partly because of destruction of those records, impacted on the conclusions they could make about the Larrakia people.43 The court found that native title rights and interests did not exist over the claim area.

Dalrock has written about how the destruction of marriage is strangling the feminist welfare state.