Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

The Aragonese were now, however, running quite short of money, and Peter was threatened by the prospect of a French attack on Aragon.

Feeling that the primatial rights of the bishop of Rome were threatened, Leo appealed to the civil power for support, and obtained from Valentinian III the famous decree of 6 June 445, which recognized the primacy of the bishop of Rome based on the merits of Peter, the dignity of the city, and the legislation of the First Council of Nicaea ; and provided for the forcible extradition by provincial governors of any bishop who refused to answer a summons to Rome.

The final year of Prisoner is mostly based around the conflict between the Freak and a new challenger, brash biker Rita " The Beater " Connors ( Glenda Linscott ) who takes over as the series ' new top dog, when previous incumbent, the vicious Lou Kelly clashed with tough temporary governor Bob Moran ( Peter Adams ) and over-reached herself by igniting a bloodthirsty riot that threatened the lives of both staff and inmates.

Peter the Great seized on this opportunity to pose as mediator, threatened the Commonwealth militarily, and in 1717 forced Augustus and the nobility to sign an accommodation favorable to Russian interests, at the Silent Sejm ( Sejm Niemy ).

Never one to sit idly by if American interests were ( in his view ) threatened, Hull would think nothing of dressing down close allies, such as what happened to New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser in early 1944, over U. S. objections to the Canberra Pact ( a military treaty of alliance between Australia and New Zealand made in February 1944 without U. S. consultation ).

Remembering that he once threatened Peter under the orders of Harry Osborn, Rhino assures Peter what he did was simply business, and the two call a truce.

John had Peter made Duke of Spoleto after Alberic ’ s death, and his increased power threatened Guy and Marozia.

She was later joined by Tam Dean Burn, Pauline Goldmsith, Peter Mullan and Alison Peebles who also threatened to boycott the Corporation.

Mac Gargan was the de facto leader of the Twelve while Osborn was in prison, and it was he who kidnapped Peter Parker's Aunt May and threatened to kill her if Spider-Man did not help Osborn escape from jail.

Venables threatened to leave if Woodgate was sold, but was persuaded to stay by Peter Ridsdale.

Though frequently threatened with terrible penalties by Peter the Great for his incurable vice of peculation, Apraksin, nevertheless, contrived to save his head, though not his pocket, chiefly through the mediation of the good-natured empress, Swedish born common law wife and later formal wife of Peter I, Catherine I, sole Ruling Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.

The last straw in the souring relations with Tsar Peter was his refusal to commit any significant force to defend Ukraine against the Polish King Stanislaus Leszczynski, an ally of Charles XII of Sweden, who threatened to attack the Cossack Hetmanate in 1708.

There were also more immediate consequences — as a result of the controversy generated by the abortion story, the Maritime Services Board evicted Oz from their office in The Rocks, the Sydney Daily Mirror newspaper cancelled its advertising contract and they also threatened to sack Peter Grose from his cadet-ship unless he resigned from Oz.

His last effort in this line was his Epistle to Peter Pindar ( Dr. John Wolcot ) ( 1800 ), inspired by personal enmity, which evoked a reply, A Cut at a Cobbler and a public letter in which Wolcot threatened to horse-whip Gifford.

Peter Brook had originally planned to direct the play in 1958 at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris, until he was forced to postpone when the theatre's artistic director, Simone Berriau, was threatened by the Parisian police.

In 1177, Cardinal Peter of Saint Chrysogonus, on behalf of Pope Alexander III, threatened to place England's continental possessions under an interdict if Henry did not proceed with the marriage.

Rumour has it that hotel owner Peter Wall threatened to call off the construction if the city forced him to replace all of the dark-paned glass, so a settlement was reached where only the remaining portion of the building ( 1 / 3 of its height ) was faced with the typical " Yaletown green " lighter-coloured glass now common in the city's newer areas.

The gang then drove around the M25 to Fetcham, Surrey, where at 0500 UTC they broke into the house of Rosemary Spicer and her boyfriend Peter Almond, who were threatened with a handgun, tied up and gagged while the house was ransacked.

After the addition of Lee Loughnane ( trumpet ), James Pankow ( trombone ), Robert Lamm ( keyboards ) and Peter Cetera ( bass ), the band performed under a number of different names, first the Missing Links, then The Big Thing ( sometime The Big Sound ), before settling on Chicago Transit Authority, which was soon shortened to Chicago because of threatened legal action funny enough by the actual Chicago Transit Authority.

In January 1360, the residents of Korikos sent their representatives in Cyprus to ask from Peter to protect them, since their city was directly threatened by Turks, and few years before they asked the help from Peter's father Hugh IV, who declined.

Len follows Rose to the trial and sees her with Johnny ; Marcia receives further threats but-after telling the Judge-agrees to stay on, although the Judge says if any other juror is influenced, he will call for a retrial ; Elsie learns that she may need a transplant ; Cording, the defence attorney, learns of a psychopath who was arrested on the day of the crime near the scene ; Duvinder takes the stand, claiming he stole the sword and planned to kill Maher but then backed out, dropped the sword and fled ; Peter is threatened.

King's In London album, and cut his own, similar " supersession " album ; Get Off My Cloud, with Keith Richards, Peter Frampton, Nicky Hopkins and members of Joe Cocker's Grease Band.

Opinion remains divided on which cut is superior ; Peter Jackson and his writing partners, the main cast and WETA as a whole, regard the Extended Edition as the superior cut, while detractors believe such scenes were left out for a reason.

In rare instances, such as Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Blake Edwards ' Darling Lili, scenes have been deleted instead of added, creating a shorter, more compact cut.

Hook wears a big iron hook in place of his right hand, which was cut off by Peter Pan and eaten by a saltwater crocodile, who liked the taste so much that he follows Hook around constantly, hoping for more.

" He relates the tale of how Peter Pan cut off his hand and fed it to the crocodile, setting up the rivalry between them.

In Barrie's original novel, his right hand was purposely cut off by Peter.

In Barry and Pearson's adaptation, his left hand was accidentally cut off by Peter, which would make their story non-canon to Barrie's original.

In their final confrontation, Peter does not cut off Black Stache's hand.

It included a high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich ’ s director ’ s cut, two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall ; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich “ The Last Picture Show ”: A Look Back, ( 1999 ) and Picture This ( 1990 ), documentaries about the making of the film, A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, a 2009 Q & A, screen tests and location footage, and excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood.

Beginning with the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul ( June 29, 2008 ) Benedict XVI reverted to a form similar to that worn by his recent predecessors, albeit in a larger and longer cut and with red crosses, therefore remaining distinct from pallia worn by metropolitans.

The album, despite being a lush concept album, was in fact cut in a very workmanlike manner, with the band recording a particular song, then the track being presented to Peter Knight who quickly composed a suitable " linking " orchestral portion which the Decca musicians (' London Festival Orchestral ') then recorded.

Peter Muilman called a meeting in Chelmsford on 2 October 1772, to propose improvements to the river, but a subsequent meeting decided that a new cut would be a better solution.

On 27 June, Charles received information that large Kalmyk forces were going to join Peter and cut off all supplies to the Swedish Army.

Their captain is the ruthless James Hook, known as Captain James Hook or more personally Jas Hook, named after ( or predestined for ) the hook in place of his right hand, and who is obsessed with finding Peter and his Lost Boys ' secret lair and exacting revenge for the loss of his hand, which was cut off by Peter and then fed to the crocodile, which has " licked its lips after the rest of him, ever since ".

The camera cut to presenter Peter Kay, commenting, " what a knobhead !".

In the scene before Doryan commits suicide, there is a cut from a sunset to Charles striking a match, which is a sly allusion to Lawrence of Arabia with its famous cut from Peter O ' Toole blowing out a match to a sunrise in the desert.

" Peter Hilton, transport analyst at CSFB, said Tyler's remarks were a " cut and dried " dismissal of the takeover talk.

The title cut was written by ex-Byrd Chris Hillman and former Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler.

In the 2001-2003 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy by Peter Jackson, the Mouth of Sauron does not appear in the theatrical cut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but he does appear in the extended version, riding out alone to meet Aragorn and his party.

Less drastic but no less apparently fatal, the fox in The Golden Bird, the foals in The Seven Foals, and the cats in Lord Peter and The White Cat tell the heroes of those stories to cut off their heads ; this restores them to human shape.