Sentences with phrase «because of runoff»

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If the clock is running at the time of the foul, there is a runoff option, because the foul is the reason the clock stopped.

If, however, the clock is not running — because of a previous incomplete pass, timeout, or what have you — there is no runoff option.

It not only meant a loss of down and a loss of 10 yards, but it also necessitated a 10 - second runoff because of when it occurred.

Some argue that direct election of the president would fragment the party system because there would be a runoff if no candidate received, say, 40 percent of the vote.

«The voters electing their leaders will be more reflective of the city's racial and ethnic makeup because older, whiter and wealthier voters are more dominant in the old - fashioned, delayed runoffs.»

The election for District 4 advanced to a runoff election on December 17, 2016, because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election.

«While always supportive of the concept of high - speed rail, I was initially opposed to the project because of its governance and cost challenges,» said Yee, who barely beat out former Democratic Assembly Speaker John A. Perez for the second spot in the state controller runoff.

Garcia reached the runoff mostly because of an anti-Emanuel vote, fueled by irritations ranging from an increase in the number of tickets being generated by Chicago's red light cameras * to the tumult in the school system to Emanuel's abrasive personality.

Because the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates is tied to the date of the runoff primary, Read more»

Because the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates is tied to the date of the runoff primary, the bill has the effect of moving the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates from early May to June 21, 2012.

Additionally, as the state's snowpack melts earlier because of warming, Cayan said, there is more runoff from higher elevation, which increases flooding.

Roadways and impervious surfaces such as parking lots and sidewalks are reliable proxies for road salt application because as developed areas, they are susceptible to high levels of salting and runoff.

The project is of particular interest to Olson's group because of growing concern about polluted runoff creating oxygen - poor dead zones in the Great Lakes.

Because of the absence of small - scale streams in the Martian valley networks, it is thought that the valleys were carved primarily by ground water flow rather than by runoff of rain.

The team also compared the ice loss up until the mid-1980s to that observed by satellites over roughly the last decade and found that today the rate of ice loss is twice the 20th century average, mostly because of increased water runoff from the ice sheet's surface.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

You will need time on a familiar track to explore the Evo's handling limits because the Advan tires have such high limits that once you surpass them, you'll need lots of runoff room.

You can afford to be aggressive because there is a lot of concrete runoff.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

Because these islands are relatively small, and dry through much of the year, there are no rivers to create viability - robbing runoff.

North County's Jalama Beach maintains its warning status from the previous week because of the poop in the lagoon runoff from the previous rain, likely from waterfowl.

The silt beds in the Gulf had been reduced because of channeled runoff in the Mississippi delta and people thought that if they had been in place a lot of what happened to the Gulf Coast areas would have been diminished.

So a home that was not in danger 20 years ago is now in danger because a shopping center has paved over 40 acres of land that once absorbed runoff.

As water becomes scarcer around the world because of mismanagement, untapped strategies are critical, from capturing runoff efficiently and wetlands development to tertiary treatment of wastewater.

Native New Yorkers know not to swim on Coney Island after a rain because of the sewage polluted storm water runoff, but if more people put out plants and grow green roofs, that might change.

People in Tilwari are fortunate to have access to a relatively clean source of water because of a fresh spring that's fed directly by runoff from the peaks of the Himalayas, but until a gravity - fed pumping system was installed recently, the water was exposed to whatever contaminants might be in the air and open for animals to share the same drinking source as people.

The principal scientific objective is to make global SSS measurements over the ice - free oceans with 150 - km spatial resolution, and to achieve a measurement error less than 0.2 (PSS - 78 [practical salinity scale of 1978]-RRB- on a 30 - day time scale, taking into account all sensors and geophysical random errors and biases.Salinity is indeed a key indicator of the strength of the hydrologic cycle because it tracks the differences created by varying evaporation and precipitation, runoff, and ice processes.

Because a large share of the runoff in the glacial water systems comes from melting, most of this runoff, up to 80 %, takes place in the summer.

«I will continue to support their efforts because green roofs help improve the quality of our region's critical water resources, particularly by reducing stormwater runoff in highly urbanized areas.»

However, despite this, the team reckon to have perhaps isolated a «global warming» signal in the accelerated run off of the Greenland Ice Mass — but only just, because the runoff at the edges is balanced by increasing central mass — again, they focus upon recent trends — a net loss of about 22 cubic kilometres in total ice mass per year which they regard as statistically not significant — to find the «signal», and a contradiction to their ealier context of air temperature cycles.

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

The average relative humidity in cities is usually several percent lower than that of adjacent rural areas, primarily because of increased runoff of precipitation and the lack of evapotranspiration from vegetation in urban areas.

They are also more oxygen - deprived, because of agricultural runoff and other anthropogenic causes.

However, it remains a major scientific challenge to model and project the changes of the magnitude and intensity of subsurface oxygen depletion because it depends on changes in ocean circulation, rates of de-nitrification, and nutrient runoff from land, and because global data coverage for chemical and biological parameters remains poor.

What has the change in runoff been because of anthropogenic impervious surfaces?

Because the Dead Sea gets its water from runoff further north, it is a barometer of water availability in the region, Torfstein told OurAmazingPlanet.