Sentences with phrase «avoid a catastrophe at»

Does the White House have some executive power up its sleeve or a plan B to overrule Congress and avoid a catastrophe at the 11th hour?

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Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half «dead, and then, in terror, shudders with dread at the very mention of the name of the «sea»; who swears he'll never sail again, who raves he'll stay home, even on the calmest days, but then, in time, forgets his fearful ways, and seeks, again, his fortune above the waves; I, too, have barely escaped the storms that revolve around you, my love, traveling far away, vowing to avoid another catastrophe, but I can't; the thought of you breaks my resolve, and so, I return to where, on that fateful day, Inearly drowned in your tempestuous sea.

She avoided a catastrophe and I was glad for that, but I do believe she might be better off today if she had stayed put for a while and worked through some things at home first.

This transformation must also include at least some minimal comprehension of the basic steps which must be taken in order to avoid catastrophe and realize the enormous potential for human enjoyment which is within our reach.

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

He uses the same trick at the turning point (to avoid spoilers, a massive catastrophe for the fortress), when everything and everyone seems to simply stop dead in their tracks to grasp what has just happened.

To avoid the catastrophe of too many cat fanciers trying to visit at the same time, reservations are encouraged.

While you may not be able to keep the airline from losing your luggage, you can avoid many credit card catastrophes — or at least minimize the damage they cause — with a little bit of advance planning.

I personally happen to like this stuff at least as much as «real science» and I think they're both essential to avoiding a planetary catastrophe.

To wit: we (and I use this pronoun advisedly) can still avoid a global catastrophe, but it's not at all obvious that we will do so.

The new IPCC report shows that we must keep roughly 80 - to - 95 % of proven reserves of fossil fuels in the ground if we want a decent shot at avoiding catastrophe.

To have our best chance at avoiding the worst climate catastrophes and to safeguard our oceans, we must aim to return to 350 ppm by 2100.

The climate law is a great tool to at least seriously try to avoid the climate catastrophe.

You can see where we're headed if we carry on at this rate, and it's one of the reasons why the Paris Agreement is probably the world's last best chance to avoid a climate catastrophe this century.

At a time when we have run out of carbon budget and run up carbon debt for avoiding climate catastrophe, the oil production in this country has shot up.

Tell them the Huns are at the Gates, and real sacrifice is required if we are to have any hope of success in avoiding the impending catastrophe.

Instead, we prefer to stay in the reality - based world of those (the E.U., the Climate Action Network) who draw the line at 2C maximum (which is itself not by any means safe) and who admit that avoiding a global climate catastrophe is going to be difficult indeed.