Sentence examples for fear of extinction from inspiring English sources

I suspect that it is an ancient tribal fear of extinction.

No poem better expresses my fear of extinction than Larkin's "Aubade".

"I don't want to die," he says, voicing the fear of extinction behind all dystopian fiction.

Israel has its enemies, of course, but it is not the fear of extinction that keeps it wedded to the status quo, which is a security nightmare in its own right.

As in Greece, where a three-party coalition has held together since June out of fear of extinction and lack of viable alternatives, analysts said that in Italy, the duration of the government largely depends on the economy.

Karen Armstrong writes in A Short History of Myths that myths are ways of making things comprehensible and meaningful in human terms (the sun as a chariot driven by a woman through the firmament) and that they are almost all "rooted in death and the fear of extinction".

Anthropologists estimate they used to number more than 2,000 but the population has fallen to fewer than 600, bringing fears of extinction.

How do you reconcile the fierce desire for national distinction — and the fear of national extinction — with civil rights for all?

The state of Israel was in its infancy, too, as were the partition of India and Pakistan, the arms race, the fear of nuclear extinction, the toppling of colonialism and the ensuing U.S.-Soviet rivalry in what became the Third World.

During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the fear of immanent extinction was bone deep; the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned that the Doomsday Clock was mere minutes to midnight.

Rather than decry foreign plots, China should also recognize that the mass arrival of Han Chinese has fed legitimate Tibetan fears of cultural extinction, and that a stop-go approach to allowing foreign journalists into Tibet is ham-fisted.