Although a human being ceased to be, this dissolution was not utter extinction.
In the Andaman and Nicobar islands, an Indian archipelago some 1,200km from the mainland, which suffered a series of aftershocks in the days following the big quake, at least 3,000 died, thousands were missing and an anthropological as well as a human disaster was feared: the utter extinction of a number of unique small tribes.
If religious hope is based on the mistaken belief that death, in the sense of utter and total extinction body and soul, is not inevitable, it leads us down a blind alley.
Bird populations uttering simpler songs were more prone to extinction (with lowerλ) than populations presenting more complex signalling (Fig. 1).
the blessed vision of the Sun, no longer pouring his energies unrequited into space, but by means of photo-electric cells…, these powers gathered into electrical storehouses to the total extinction of steam engines, and the utter repression of smoke.
In 1891 R. Appleyard wrote of the blessed vision of the Sun, no longer pouring his energies unrequited into space, but by means of photo-electric cells…, these powers gathered into electrical storehouses to the total extinction of steam engines, and the utter repression of smoke.
To pretend that these results speak to other factors that may have generated the Neandertal extinction, which was a protracted process, is utter nonsense".
It is, I think, impossible not to be stirred by the simple dignity of those who, faced with imminent extinction, managed somehow to communicate with their families and utter the three words in the English language that really matter: 'I Love You.' [email protected] World of books debate.
The evisceration of this party that grew arrogantly to treat Scotland as its own fiefdom was so utter and complete on 7 May that, in Westminster last week, it was being described as an extinction event.
Then there are the books we all remember being given for our bar mitzvahs — or maybe that's just me — that are little more than dashed-off lists of rules that in their utter disregard for the reader seem more of an example of rudeness than a step toward its extinction.
Nibbana is a state of utter extinction not of existence but of passions and suffering; it is a state beyond the chain of causation, a state of freedom and spontaneity.
