(1) Eitan was born Rafael Kaminsky in the moshav of Tel Adashim near Nazareth, straddling the Jezreel Valley across from Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
(2) But some say Armageddon will draw near around say, December 20, as the deadline draws closer and Congress still has nothing to show for its efforts.
(3) Collective jitters produced by the end of the Mayan calendar have been good business for the suppliers of candles, matches, salt and torches in some parts of Russia, even though, as one psychiatrist noted, what happens every day can be a lot scarier than Armageddon.
(4) He had predicted an "Armageddon-like scenario" if the petition were rejected.
(5) Notwithstanding the voices of a few who are willing to play with Armageddon, responsible leaders in Washington are not."
(6) Bugarach, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, became known as the "Village of the End of the World" following two years of intense media focus since the local mayor raised concerns about online rumours that the Mayans had predicted it was the only place that would be spared Armageddon.
(7) In government, but facing electoral Armageddon, the Liberal Democrats had to mark themselves out as different during the 2014 party conference season.
(8) That Armageddon is a psychological effect that will create a financial one.
(9) With environmental Armageddon back on the agenda once again now, might there be a viable future for Arcosanti and Soleri's principles of arcology after all?
(10) The idea that Britain is made one jot safer by a £100bn Armageddon weapon floating in the Atlantic is absurd.
(11) Lost in all of the cyber-Armageddon rhetoric is Sony’s own negligent security practices, which is maybe where some of Hollywood’s own overwrought ire should be pointed, rather than blaming journalists for reporting.
(12) A local newspaper picked it up and the story quickly became a media phenomenon, an irresistible yet totally preposterous rural armageddon saga, whereby UFOs descending from a landing pad on the local mountaintop would save people from the end of the world.
(13) Next chief executive Simon Wolfson said the UK was suffering "a recession, not Armageddon".
(14) The only reason last year's financial mega-meltdown is now producing protracted economic misery, as opposed to economic Armageddon, is because the authorities acted as they did.
(15) The countdown to possible economic Armageddon was infused with yet more tension as eurozone officials disagreed over the degree to which progress had been made.
(16) But such is the global interest, the French police have closed off access to the mountain peak in the village to keep out the expected influx of international journalists, even if the feared mass arrival of hippies, new agers and Armageddon groupies has failed to materialise.
(17) You may have other candidates for the post-Armageddon comfort food repository and I'd love to know what they are, but I think I'm on the right track.
(18) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
(19) The fact that Aids, predicted to slash by a third Africa’s population, has simply not done so, will no more dent the appeal of Armageddon than will the wilder claims of climate changers.
(20) Talk about “ultimate deterrents” might as well apply to any Armageddon weapon, bacteriological or chemical.
Catastrophe
Definition:
(n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
(n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
(n.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(2) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(3) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(4) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(5) In contrast, the 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment" , published by the New York Academy of Sciences, comes to a very different conclusion.
(6) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(7) It is found that, in contrast to most metallic materials yet in keeping with many ceramics, there are no distinct fracture morphologies in pyro-carbons which are characteristic of a specific mode of loading; fracture surfaces appear to be identical for both catastrophic and subcritical crack growth under either sustained or cyclic loading.
(8) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(9) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(10) "We believe that such a path would be catastrophic for the UK, for Europe and for the protection of human rights around the world."
(11) A large number of flight accidents and catastrophes associated with the human factor, high nervous and psychic tension when being on duty, increasing trend towards a greater incidence of psychogenic diseases responsible for pilots to be grounded make it necessary to develop a system of primary psychoprophylaxis of the flying personnel and to help them with various social, psychohygienic and psychoprophylactic measures.
(12) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
(13) Self-help groups can aid an individual in coping with and adapting to catastrophic illness.
(14) Catastrophes, though always regrettable, must be seen as experiments demanding careful analysis and exploitation.
(15) This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").
(16) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(17) I argue that (a) the procedures they used to study confounding were suboptimal because multiple measures of depression and catastrophizing were not employed and (b) the distinctiveness of constructs might better be regarded as a continuous rather than all-or-none (having adequate discriminant validity versus being confounded) concept.
(18) Newborn infants with congenital homozygous protein C deficiency develop catastrophic thrombosis (purpura fulminans) and will not survive beyond the neonatal period without protein C replacement.
(19) But the humanitarian catastrophes in Syria have been overshadowed by stories about Islamic State .
(20) We do not anticipate major impact on psychiatric tasks from some form of catastrophic insurance.