Thus, the ultimate question of a gradual decline of dinosaurs vs. a sudden cataclysm is almost intractable without a wealth of good data. |
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In fact, their disappearance from the rocky strata was so abrupt that it signalled a cataclysm. |
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The Earth has suffered a massive cataclysm that has forced humanity to return to an incredibly primitive way of life. |
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Nor does it take massive destruction or the organic cataclysm of advanced, systemic diseases, to fell us. |
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As the generation that had made or experienced the original cataclysm died away, historians began to appropriate it for analysis. |
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In other recent asteroid collision news, the odds of a cataclysm caused by a asteroid striking the Earth have just been lowered. |
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Knocked out during the cataclysm, he unwittingly hurtles 800,000 years further into the future. |
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They proposed that the causal agent was a climatic cataclysm, resulting from the impact of a bolide. |
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The water roils around the combatants, and the sky is filled with clouds and tiny lines that intensify the sense of cataclysm. |
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Some points in the opera are on the unsatisfactory side of orchestral fullness for that reason, like the concluding cataclysm. |
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The reaction has been, at least in the media, as if a great cataclysm had swept the party. |
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We do not understand how a cataclysm can be averted without genuine negotiation. |
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These models, which are falsifiable, attempt to explain the geologic record within the fact of a global cataclysm. |
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The lack of an economic cataclysm did not surprise me, even if the overheated rhetoric of that time did. |
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The spectacle was dramatic evoking either ruins of a buried city or broken columns of a engulfed cemetery by any natural or human cataclysm. |
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The North American continent alone will experience a horrifying cataclysm beyond human belief. |
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In the cataclysm that followed, the survival of republican government indeed was in peril. |
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But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence. |
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The reader feels the personal cataclysm of four kibbutznik paratroopers as their universe falls from grace. |
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Apparently, during the time directly following the political cataclysm in the GDR, the churches were mainly perceived and appreciated as public institutions. |
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The Japanese, less involved than the Europeans in the First World War, had to wait for the Second World War for the cataclysm that delegitimated their traditional lyricism. |
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It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework! |
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The cataclysm would have created a ring of debris at an intensely hot temperature — in the thousands of degrees. |
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The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 was a cataclysm almost beyond comprehension. |
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However the ones to survive the cataclysm are generally the pure-blooded Nordlings. |
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I believe our understanding in Washington allowed us to avoid the cataclysm that otherwise really would have come to pass. |
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Did we need this cataclysm to happen, which was compared with climate change by someone who spoke before me? |
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Are they aware that a cataclysm is happening, what I would call an ethnocide, to the extent that people are losing their culture? |
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Why did the Soviets decide to install ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba at the risk of triggering a cataclysm on a planetary scale? |
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This pet may no longer drop come cataclysm since the mobs it drops from will be removed. |
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In the year 2139 the world is havocked by a cataclysm of seismic activity. |
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I guess that every once in a while, we get a huge natural cataclysm to take the wind out of our sails, and to remind us of who's really in charge on this planet. |
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One writer described it as resembling a geological cataclysm. |
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While, the countries of southeast Asia are counting the cost of the cataclysm, their economies are forecast to be further negatively impacted by the loss of tourism revenues. |
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I imagine that the entire world except my tram, bus or train carriage was devastated in some cataclysm, leaving only these passengers to rebuild the world. |
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A cataclysm may change our system again, but I do not think so. |
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The mother becomes a drifter, finally offering her life in a revolutionary cataclysm that takes place in a banana republic wholly given over to violence and nihilism. |
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Siculus reports that all the Greek cities were destroyed during the cataclysm, but the Egyptian cities including Heliopolis and Sais survived. |
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And learn we must, if Los Angeles's notoriously fragile ecology is not to be driven one step closer toward cataclysm by our heroines' reckless machinations. |
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But that does not stop people continuing to worry that esoteric phenomena at the edge of physics might spell The End Of Everything in a satisfyingly B-movieish cataclysm. |
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Against the backdrop of the usual hospital disasters, full-blown anaphylaxis is an incomparable cataclysm, a Krakatoa boxed inside a body. |
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Here at ground zero of humanity's deadliest cataclysm, the ultimate tragedy is that so many people do not know-or do no want to know-what is happening. |
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At present many ecologists are convinced that Earth's climate change and her declining physical state are warning signs of an accelerating extinction pattern auguring some sort of approaching cataclysm. |
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This cataclysm had a huge economic, social and moral cost, with 55 deaths and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes, factories, water treatment plants, schools and historical buildings. |
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Creationary geologists, on the other hand, tend to look for natural catastrophic explanations for most of the geologic record in keeping with a global cataclysm denominated as Noah's Flood. |
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Inspiring mystery of the science fiction, history of a civilization disappeared in a cataclysm pointing out the myth from the flood, Atlantis is perhaps most enthralling of the enigmas of the History. |
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It is a zero-sum logic that can only lead to global cataclysm. |
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