Sentences with phrase «away in the tsunami»

Or are they going to be swept away in the tsunami?

Not exact matches

Just as the arguments for higher cost structures in other industries have been washed away by the internet tsunami (go ask retailers or content providers), so too will the arguments for premium pricing for institutional trades succumb to the inevitable erosion.

Petra Nemcova, who herself was swept away by the tsunami and survived by clinging to a tree for eight hours, established Happy Hearts Fund in 2005.

I can say that I believe there is a 100 ft tsunami about to sweep away my house, but if sit calmly in my chair and do nothing about it, I am showing through my actions that I really don't believe it after - all.

You have nightmares about Tsunamis just from watching the preview of a movie in which a family gets swept away from one another.

El - Naggar even sees moral meaning in the earthquake that triggered the 2005 tsunami and washed away nearly a quarter of a million lives.

The wave swept away entire houses and was reminiscent of the tsunami waves that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

Cascading lava slammed into the ocean, destroying all aquatic life in its path, and creating tsunamis nearly fifteen feet high which swept away everything within their reach.

Substantial progress has been made in terms of controlling tsunami hazard in the «far field» (a tsunami that originates from a source greater than 1,000 kilometers, or 620 miles, away).

We are pleased to announce that Holtec's engineers have succeeded in designing SMR - 160 into a «walk - away» safe nuclear power plant, which means that if a calamity were to strike — similar to the tsunami that devastated Fukushima ̶ the plant will passively (without human intervention) switch to and remain in a safe shutdown and cooled configuration for an unlimited period.

For those who thought STEM (science - technology - engineering - mathematics) education was going to get swept away in the educational tsunamis of economic stimulus, core curriculum debates, student performance concerns, and a new national emphasis on achievement and innovation, guess again.

Still, inverted yield curves are like an earthquake in the ocean — the tsunami may not happen right away, but you'll likely feel it coming.

That mangy cur searching for sustenance in the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami or other far away natural disaster?

They call it a beach, but in truth there is nothing of the sort since a tsunami ripped through the village in 2006, causing hundreds of deaths and washing away what little there was of the sand.

The first stage of the apocalypse in the actual game is a tsunami which washes away an entire town.

Even in Japan, the stone tablets were ignored mostly, and even they were not old enough to record the even larger tsunamis of the past, as many of them were washed away by the recent one.

2:50 p.m. Updated below with astounding video from Kesennuma, Japan Over the weekend, I mused on a question that's bothered me since I read Roger Bilham's report on the great earthquake and tsunami of March 11: Given the history of devastating tsunamis not far away, how could it have taken until 2006 for the word «tsunami» to show up in government guidelines related to the Fukushima nuclear complex?

In turn the response might be: 1) to protect against an asteroid strike, we should all store food, dig caves, move away from coastlines (tsunamis) etc, etc — this will provide jobs for everyone!

So far, though, most objections to the giant solar projects planned for the Southwest have been washed away by a tsunami of money from Wall Street, lured to invest by billions of dollars in federal grants, tax credits and loan guarantees and a fast - track regulatory approval process.

We're about five years away from a demographic tsunami — that forecast point in time when 25 % of Canadians will be 65 or older.

CEO corner, Jim EvansWhen the number of tourists to Japan plummeted thanks to a tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster, there were hints that the Japanese Tourism Agency would be giving away 10,000 flights to travelers in an effort to pump a little tourist activity into the industry.

Shortly after I started my term as president of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, I asked for your assistance in providing relief to people half a world away who'd suffered the effects of a cataclysmic tsunami.

I was disappointed to be dragged away when Sprog 2 melted down after a tsunami - style wave skittled her in the pool (the seas continue to be a tad rough)(fortunately a lethal scotch and Diet Coke from the pool bar softened the blow... for me... for around three hours... whoa... Sprog 2 made do with a strawberry soft - serve).