Sentences with phrase «accelerant of»

In 2010, the Pentagon followed suit, writing in its Quadrennial Defense Review that global warming impacts and disasters will «act as an accelerant of instability or conflict.»

The American Security Project has, on the other hand, called global warming — to which coal - burning contributes — an «accelerant of instability» in international relations.

However, they may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world (NRC, 2012b).

In a report issued Wednesday, the White House said climate change would act as «an accelerant of instability around the world,» could escalate global tensions, and lead to overpopulation.

While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.

In other paintings he prefers the accelerant of a vertiginous viewpoint, or the intensity of separate sensations, to a rhythmic give and take.

The work fleshes out a host of climate - linked threats that were laid out almost a year ago in the Pentagon's 20 - year security strategy, which recognized climate change as an «accelerant of instability» (E&E Daily, Feb. 2, 2010).

Not exact matches

«We see the educator continuing to be the catalyst or accelerant at the heart of that process.

Lab reports indicate that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire, which destroyed an earth mover and damaged three other vehicles at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, ATF spokesman Eric Kehn said.

Instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement and deficient programming, BSA's senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls.»

Unresolved questions surrounding Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in Colorado — and Republican attempts to provide accelerant to the incumbent protection flap — have suddenly forced Senate candidates in a handful of other states, including Arkansas, Illinois and Ohio, to respond to queries about possible White House involvement in their own races, throwing them off message and on the defensive.

1 Crazing of windows, in which hundreds of cracks appear in the glass, indicates rapid heating and means an accelerant was used to start the fire.

Small, flat blisters result from a slow burn; large, shiny blisters indicate rapid heating and hence the use of an accelerant.

They knew the fire had been accidental, yet they found classic signs of arson: large, shiny blisters on wood resembling alligator skin, chipping concrete, and melted metal doorway thresholds, all typically attributed to accelerant and accelerant runoff, resulting in excessively high heat.

He once believed the old saw that the spalling of concrete, in which the surface chipped after a blaze, resulted from the kind of high heat indicating use of a liquid accelerant and arson.

Crazing was commonly thought to indicate rapid heating and therefore, once again, the use of a fire accelerant.

Lentini debunked the myth of window «crazing» in which cracks indicate rapid heating supposedly caused by an accelerant (arson).

We are used to light and fluffy loaves of bread, even whole grain varieties, and most of us are unaware of the effects of commercial processing, such as high yeast levels, accelerants, proofing agents and bromide, that regular bread undergoes.

However, by reducing the fermenting period, yeast levels had to be increased — as did the levels of accelerants and artificial agents — and glutens and starches are no longer given enough time to convert to a digestible form.

For readers of Writer Unboxed, the idea of accelerants can be applied to the many aids for speeding up the pace of progress as writers.

For the purposes of this subsection, «service dog» means a dog owned, used, or in training by any police or fire department, rescue, or first response squad, ambulance corps, or search and rescue organization for the purposes of locating criminals and lost persons, or detecting illegal substances, explosives, cadavers, accelerants, or school or correctional facility contraband.

At Maine Specialty Dogs, trainers take the dogs through several months of «imprinting,» in which they learn to associate the smell of accelerants with food rewards, says owner Paul Gallagher, who is also a former Maine State Police K - 9 trainer.

Peppertree Rescue is proud to share that Axe, formerly known as Rover, graduated from the NYS Academy of Fire Science's Canine Accelerant Detection Course in Montour Falls, NY on May 12th, 2017 along with several other rescue dogs, including two from Saratoga County Animal Shelter and one from Mohawk Hudson Humane Society.

They found traces of fire accelerants.

If I were defending the guy against the forest fire charge, I'd have statistics for every fire started by lightning going back to when records began; I'd have a list as long as your arm of the other uses those «accelerants» could be put to; i would not allow any mention of previous history of arson; i would find character witnesses; In short, I would create reasonable doubt.

However, instead of considering negative carbon emissions as potentially undermining to the proliferation of carbon free energy, the climate change mitigation community at large should consider the portfolio of options that can permanently sequester carbon as an enabler and accelerant.

For me then its true to say that loss of sea ice on its own doesn't mean the end of the Holocene but it does count as one hell of an accelerant.

The fire bore many of the hallmarks of what was thought to be arson, including burn patterns and what appeared to be pour patterns on the floor that were believed to indicate the fire had been set using a liquid accelerant.

The investigators, who examined 50 homes, found several indicators traditionally attributed to arson, including melted bedsprings, melted copper and crazed glass, which at the time was commonly thought to be caused by rapid heating through the use of an accelerant.

On the other hand, only 4 percent of respondents believed that intense heat caused by an accelerant causes concrete to spall.

A second prosecution expert, certified fire protection specialist Daniel Aston (now deceased), testified that he could determine not only the order in which the fires were set but also the amount and type of accelerants that were used: 62 gallons of home heating fuel mixed with 12.2 pounds of gasoline or Coleman fuel.

It appears that the accident occurred when one of the revelors poured an accelerant, said to be a lantern fuel, onto a smoldering log, intending to restoke the fire.

The book associated irregular cracks in glass — called crazed glass — with rapid heating, which suggests the use of fire accelerants.

There's no smell of accelerant.

The launch is part of eToro's wider ambition to simplify cryptocurrency investing and act as an accelerant for the adoption of blockchain technology.

He takes help of the evidences found at incident sites, which could be metal fragments, glass, accelerant remains, charred wood etc., to know the source of fire and find out whether the fire was deliberate or unintended.

You might find matches, lighters, flint rock, or accelerants in the room of a child who is contemplating starting fires.