What's the difference between armageddon and ragnarok?

Armageddon


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Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Ragnarok


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His UNPERU colleagues strove to decode this hydrocarbon Ragnarok.
  • (2) "The image in Ragnarok that most moved me as a child was the ship of the dead that comes up to the last battle.
  • (3) Byatt was speaking at the launch of her new book, a retelling of the Norse Ragnarok myth, in which, after a succession of natural disasters, the world ends: a story she has found compelling since her childhood during the war.
  • (4) The other films are Captain America 3: Civil War and Doctor Strange (both 2016), Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Black Panther (both 2017), Thor: Ragnarok and Inhumans (2018) and two Avengers films in 2018 and 2019, Infinity War parts one and two.
  • (5) She added: "We are into the world of Ragnarok, where whatever we do we cannot stop the doom that is coming.