(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.
Doomsday
Definition:
(n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
(n.) The day of the final judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
(2) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
(3) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
(4) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
(5) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
(6) Thus, unlike you, we are not inclined to take the doomsday scenarios you have painted too seriously.
(7) The doomsday sort of threats of Mr Robb don’t help anything.” He said critics of the agreement “have got a point” about maintaining and protecting labour standards.
(8) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more The bombardment of rebel areas of the city continued nonstop on Monday during the day in what residents called a “doomsday” scenario.
(9) Under the title "Scaring children" he writes: The group most vulnerable to doomsday claims is children.
(10) Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
(11) • Alok Jha is a Guardian science correspondent and author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World (Quercus, £9.99) and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science (Quercus, £9.99)
(12) Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term in 1956, after studying how members of a doomsday cult dealt with the aftermath of an apocalypse that did not come.
(13) The risk is that satisfying the capricious whims of the financial markets leads to policy error and the doomsday scenario.
(14) AI doomsday scenarios belong more in the realm of science fiction than science fact.
(15) With almost half an hour played there was a reminder of the doomsday scenario for the home side of a Shakhter away goal when Aldin Dzidic headed over Forster's bar in a rare attack.
(16) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
(17) The Doomsday Clock has not been dismantled after the cold war: but the advance towards catastrophe need not be inexorable.
(18) Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid , an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
(19) Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Remember, you have just a few hours left to get your recalcitrant doomsday friends to sign over all their assets to you.
(20) But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers.