Sentences with phrase «avoid catastrophe in»

Like a supertanker, which has to turn off its engines 25 km before it comes to a stop, we have to start turning off greenhouse gas emissions now in order to avoid catastrophe in decades to come.»

As the biblical Joseph tells us — to avoid catastrophe in the times of need requires a wise and honest person to manage things in the times of abundance.

Many people believe seizure alert dogs (dogs that sense and warn their masters of upcoming seizures) or seizure response dogs (dogs that provide assistance to their masters during and after a seizure) can provide epilepsy patients with a greater sense of control over their disorder because they seem to be able to help them avoid catastrophe in public places, such as driving a car.

To avoid catastrophe in Emirates Wenger and Kroenke should pack and go.

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Instead of correcting course to avoid further catastrophe, the Maduro regime is attempting to circumvent sanctions through the Petro digital currency — a ploy that Venezuela's democratically - elected National Assembly has denounced and Treasury has cautioned U.S. persons to avoid,» Mnuchin said in a statement.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

Most learn through errors, make adjustments, and avoid tax catastrophes in the future.

The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

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.

It may well be that it is already too late to avoid terrible catastrophes in China, and I do not look forward to having process thought identified with that outcome.

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.

Catastrophe will now probably have to be faced in the Church throughout the Western world, for it seems too late to avoid it.

It is my judgment that the reforms that a morally concerned group of elite faculty would propose, even if all were quickly enacted, would not change the course of world affairs in such a way as to avoid catastrophe for the planet.

But to avoid the horrors of environmental catastrophe, we must make radical changes in our way of living, and we do not yet even have a clear idea of what those changes should be.

I find it hard to believe that men will pay the price in change now to avoid conditions which will make catastrophe inevitable later.

Most children know that you're in danger of being pinched, so to avoid that catastrophe, help your little ones to make these fun little pins to wear.

He added that the most «important thing is to make sure we get the right result from a referendum that's held to avoid the catastrophe to the countries economy and our political standing in the world.

«It is time to move on from the fake debate over whether climate change is real or poses a risk, and onto the worthy debate about what actions we must take to avoid a climate catastrophe,» he said in an email.

Who's to Blame To avoid price gouging, consumer advocate Newton and scientist Mills urge insurance companies to be transparent about the models they use for setting premiums — specifically how they factor in catastrophes believed to have been brought on by climate change.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before being awakened by secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine.

Moreover, moderate to serious complications described with classic fat graft 40 as chronic oedema, calcification, fibrosis, acne, headache, dysesthesia, drooping, infections, damage of the underlying skeletal structures, cutaneous discolouration or vascular catastrophes were completely avoided when applying this technique but were not seen also in our previous experience.

Holdren ain't in the «do something but not enough to avoid catastrophe» crowd that the NYT's Andy Revkin keeps on touting (see here and here).

With obesity, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and other unsafe and unhealthy statistics continuing to climb it is extremely important that we all begin taking action right now in order to avoid a possible health catastrophe down the road.

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.

In order to avoid any future catastrophes; the US government, along with the support of other world leaders, has decided to build a massive weather - controlling satellite system, strangely entitled the «Dutch Boy», which will be able to combat the forever - changing weather conditions.

While this will slow down one's payoff plan, it will enable a person to avoid a catastrophe should they experience a job loss or serious sickness in the family.

To me, home bias is a more unique / significant risk, with some (perhaps small) probability of catastrophe (which unfortunately is often amplified in the rest of your life / finances in the worst case scenario), and something I want to avoid.

If you have insurance and you find yourself embroiled in a complaint, pat yourself on the back for avoiding the potential catastrophe of having to come out of pocket to defend yourself.

The government's actions to avoid financial collapse last fall — as distasteful and unfair as some undoubtedly were — were unfortunately necessary to prevent a global economic catastrophe that could have rivaled the Great Depression in length and severity, with profound consequences for our economy and society.

I also suggested that the ones thinking that a very small chance of something going wrong in the LHC being enough to stop it go to the AGW denialists and tell them that even a small chance of catastrophe MUST be avoided.

I have the impression that the rich countries need to agree to those money transfers in some way or another to avoid a climate catastrophe, but I have no idea how to make poorer households in rich countries agree to those transfers.

Anyone who follows climate science, solutions, and politics knows that climate change is in the process of emerging as the story of the century — and that's only if every major country pulls together to rapidly transform the global economy to avoid catastrophe.

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.

«We are talking about the big world of avoiding climate catastrophe, but we are talking about the immediate world of people living in Riverside, Los Angeles and other places,» Brown said.

To avoid any kind of catastrophe, the reptiles went into hibernation for millions of years before secret nuclear experiments in a Welsh mine awakened them.

The EPA says the Kemper County Energy Facility offers a real - life example that it is possible to go on burning the dirtiest of fossil fuels and still make the cuts in carbon dioxide emissions needed to avoid a climate catastrophe.

«What measurements and results need to occur in the future, in order to have you change your conclusion that human emissions must be reduced to avoid planet catastrophe?»

But far too many of the slogans on display asserted or implied that ending the climate emergency and avoiding climatic catastrophes like those that would occur months later — hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the mega-wildfires in the U.S. West — will be a simple matter of getting Donald Trump out of office and converting to 100 - percent renewable energy.

But given the role of the MIC, only if this obstacle is overcome in time can a prevention program avoid climate catastrophe be achieved, with a process of global demilitarization, transformation of agriculture to agroecologies and increased cooperation among nations.

First is the systematic process by which the Drawdown team set out to show that we really can stabilize the climate system, in time to avoid cascading global catastrophe.

But rather than being about «ethics», stories about how one must behave in order to avoid a catastrophe are no more than moral blackmail.

He says retooling the planet for a green economy can be the largest jobs program in history, can create more equality among nations, and is necessary, immediately, to avoid catastrophe.

Despite the International Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) warning that roughly two - thirds of existing fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground and that countries must urgently scale up renewable energy development and deployment to avoid climate catastrophe, this proposal would actually:

It merely avoids addressing the real questions, and gives CAGW advocates ammunition in painting those who are skeptical of imminent catastrophe as loonies.

But neither do I think that following policies that will make such a way of life compulsory for all — in the hope of avoiding some imagined catastrophe if the winter nights get a degree or so warmer and the sealevel rises a foot or two — is a sensible course.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

TTIP would entrench corporate power and stand in the way of bold government action required to avoid climate catastrophe.

People may even be willing to tolerate a significant decline in living standards if it is in the interests of avoiding catastrophe, but we won't get there if we don't actually have the conversation about what life would be like in 40 % - by - 2020 Australia.