Sentence examples for extinction over from inspiring English sources

Right whales, which were hunted to near extinction over five centuries, number perhaps 350.

She draws comfort from the geologic record, which shows that reefs have suffered extinction, or near extinction, over the billions of years, and have returned.

Wolves, hunted to the brink of extinction over the past seven decades, have begun to reappear in the region in recent years.

If endangered species continue to disappear, we will indeed experience a sixth extinction, over just the next few centuries or millennia.

But they do see difficulties and trends that could point many movies or the source material associated with them toward "digital extinction" over a relatively short span of years, unless something changes.

At last look, a study of the threatened species of the world by an organization known as BirdLife International has estimated that one in eight bird species is at risk of extinction over the next century.

This remains a very real concern, with much of the world suffering from increasing water scarcity, land erosion, drought intensity, stalled progress on crop productivity, declining groundwater aquifers, over-grazing of pasturelands, tropical deforestation, massive species extinction, over-fishing, and anthropogenic climate-change.

In a short, barbed essay entitled "Memorandum to the Animals", Leach deals directly with the importance of imagination, noting that many animals will fall into extinction twice over, failing to survive even in the half-light of our memories.

Treatment studies have however shown that for CBT for phobic disorders, behavioral interventions (relying heavily on the principle of extinction) predominate over cognitive ones [for a review see e.g., [ 24]].

Moreover, the results suggest that extinction of over-selected cues may have potential applied benefit as an intervention.

Mr. Calhoun's orchard once held all 456 of the varieties he has wrested from near-extinction over the last 30 years.