Sentence examples for extinction in the face from inspiring English sources

This standoff will persist until some of the champs stare extinction in the face.

5. 6,000 languages are facing extinction Across the globe, minority languages are facing extinction in the face of globalisation.

Dragonflies may have hovered and hunted across the planet for the last 325m years, but their modern relatives are staring extinction in the face.

Hygiene may also be one area where "dead-tree" distribution, which even the New York Times's Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., says is approaching extinction in the face of electronic alternatives, has an edge.

They have gone close to falling out of the Football League, were straitjacketed by a transfer embargo for more than a year and have stared extinction in the face.

It tells the story of Gianni Dubois, a film director — played with brilliant, deadpan panache by Silvio Orlando, the winner of the best-actor prize here two years ago — who has not managed to make a movie for five years and is staring professional and financial extinction in the face.

Previous results from Macrostrat have demonstrated that times of reduced marine sedimentation on the North America craton correspond to times of increased extinction in marine genera [32], but we now use this approach to test the hypothesis that endemic genera have higher extinction susceptibility in the face of large-scale environmental reorganizations than cosmopolitan genera.

Our results show that endemic marine genera in North America had higher extinction susceptibilities in the face of environmental perturbations (Fig. 6C), which is consistent with the results of Jansson [38], who found that endemic terrestrial species were more likely to survive small amplitude fluctuations in climate than larger ones.

Pikas have also emerged as an important study species for investigating extinction risk in the face of rapidly changing climates [ 5, 7, 12- 15].

In plants, extinction risk in the face of environmental change might be exacerbated by reliance on specialized pollinators (Pauw 2007) or the use of photoperiod rather than temperature as a cue for flowering time (Willis et al. 2008).

Like him they consider the meaningless of a life that knows its own extinction, of being in the face of nothingness.