Sentence examples for against cataclysm from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the biggest criticism against Cataclysm was that raids had been dumbed down for the benefit of new "casual" players.

Commodities, in other words, were no hedge against economic cataclysm.

Many of the nation's bankers, lawmakers and regulators might well say yes, arguing that safeguards have been put in place to protect against another cataclysm.

And against the horrors, the rotting bodies, the senseless slaughter of the trenches, the postwar poverty and bleakness - against the cataclysm, "the fallen skies", Lawrence proposes to put in the scales love, tender sex, the tender bodies of people in love; England would be saved by warm-hearted fucking.

More usually, they are set in the future, against the cataclysms produced by current trends.

In his books the exuberance works as a stay against the approaching cataclysm.

Who knows, maybe we can create a publicly traded derivative to hedge our retirement funds against war, environmental cataclysm, nuclear annihilation and the heartbreak of psoriasis.

Giap directed his military genius against vastly superior forces in a war of independence that lasted from 1946 until 1954 against the French, and from 1955 until 1975 against the United States, a cataclysm that killed some two million civilians, kept provinces uninhabitable for years, and rendered vast tracts of farmland toxic from Agent Orange.

There is one much feared cataclysm, though, against which everyone has so far been defenseless — a housing-price slump.

Other panelists described the competing responsibilities of maximizing returns while safeguarding against the financial risks of potential climate cataclysm.

Unlike the companies they generally worked for in the past, these small businesses had always worked with very little hedge against a bad year, much less a cataclysm.