Sentences with phrase «bigger than a storm»

If the marine organisms had been scooped up from below sea level and dumped on the elevated promontory, something much bigger than a storm surge must have pounded the coast of ancient Crete.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

One fire storm, no matter how bad, is no more evidence for global warming than a big blizzard is evidence against it.

Not many structures can stand up to the nearly 150 MPH winds that stemmed from a storm bigger than the island itself.

If Southern Weekly managed to kick up a bigger storm than Beijing News, it was thanks to the microblog and global - media attention.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

Elsewhere, Mehdi Hasan argues that Cameron's «big society» is little more than a buzz phrase, David Blanchflower warns that Ireland's storm is blowing our way and Daniel Trilling explains why we should welcome the return of direct action to Britain.

The storm is a monster: 5,000 miles across — big enough to engulf North America — and rising 45 miles above the eye, five times higher than any terrestrial storm, with a top wind speed of 350 miles per hour, faster than the most violent twister ever to plow through Tornado Alley.

On Saturn, not only are the storms much bigger, they are far more violent, with models predicting vertical winds of more than 300 miles per hour for these rare giant storms.

Your winter looks a lot less harsh than ours here in new york - especially today, as I sit here surrounded by a big snow storm!!

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Cast: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, Kari Wuhrer, Mark McGrath, Judd Hirsch Plot: On a trip to New York, Finn (Ziering) and Alice (Reid) end up encountering an even bigger storm than last time.

The big dramatic in - fighting scenes — the film's set pieces (an argument is more compelling than a storm hitting the boat)-- are fantastic.

Greer storms out, announcing, «My god is bigger than your statistics.»

Possibly the catchiest song ever written, the anthem stormed the Billboard charts in the fall of 1996, making the ditty a bigger hit than the movie ever was.

This big improvement has occurred even as the schools are serving a higher percentage of low - income students — 84 percent — than before the storm, and despite the fact that many of the students missed months of school.

Bought this truck with 7800 miles on it and had 4 recalls in less than a year the factory bedliner in it is separating from the steel and everytiei take it to the shop and its supposed to be a work truck made tough that's a joke due to the manufacturer defects I have to miss using it on jobs to haul and if you ask for a loaner that is not included in the warranty so I have a ram that is causing me to lose money and the company wont give me a truck to use while its getting manufacturer defects fixed makes sense and well trading it in is a joke after you buy a ram they depreciate dramatically so trading it in will cost you so thought since they changed names maybe they would b better but 2 hours on the hotline about why no loaner for a working man and all I get is there is no loaner policy when your vehicle is in the shop even when it is their flaws!And what really ticked me off they wanted to patch the factory sprayed bedliner so I took it in and dropped it off we had a big hail storm and they left my truck out in it and they aren't responsible for that either and you pay 600 for a factory sprayed bedliner and its peeling up and they want to patch that spot instead of respraying the whole thing can u say cheap but they were more than happy to take my money when I bought it but they don't stand very tough in my opinion never had this many issues with my fords

The day before a big storm, it's quicker to take delivery of a new car with all - wheel - drive than wait to have snow tires installed.

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«But that storm was like communion — being one with something so much bigger than yourself.»

The Art Tart took the Banksy Cans Festival by storm with her shocking stencil paintings and a performance which was definitely one to remember... Through her use of various costumes to create the ultimate tarty look with high heels, big red lips, leopard stockings, French knickers and open shirt, she in fact reveals a larger than life character — which, coupled with a few spray cans, takes street art to a whole new level.

There is more to the increased thermodynamic potential of tropical storms than SST (as Kerry Emanuel, Greg Holland and others have very clearly shown), an example of that is the multi-model projections of MPI response (which shows a big swath of Maximum Potential Intensity (MPI) decrease in the Atlantic, even though the entire tropics are warming).

What evidence is there that Sandy was any different than previous big storms to hit the NE?

These higher sea levels set the stage for typical «king tides» and normal winter storms to have a bigger impact than usual.

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

This year has seen no such opposite of a perfect storm, yet the summer sea - ice minimum is a mere 4 % bigger than that record.

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

In May the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US said that this season the Atlantic would probably see more hurricanes than normal, giving a 70 % probability of between three and seven really big storms in 2010.

Rather than focusing on big - ticket solutions such as storm - surge barriers, Rosenzweig calls for a range of initiatives, from increasing redundancy in the electric grid to sealing off tunnels and making coastal areas more resilient to flooding.

Consequently, the effects of these storms are highly nonlinear and one big storm may have much greater impacts on the environment and climate system than several smaller storms.

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

As the Jet Stream dip became more oriented toward the East Coast during March, storms that would ultimately blow up over the Atlantic at first got a big plug of moisture from the extra evaporation flowing off that warmer than normal Gulf.

If past history is any indicator, the 1997 - 98 El Nino caused more than $ 550 million in damages in California from storm - related flooding and mudslides, and the 2015 - 2016 version is expected to pack an even bigger punch.

After the previous events in the series — the last of which started with Kratos storming Mount Olympus and ended with him killing almost the entire Grecian pantheon, culminating with Zeus himself — it's hard to imagine how the new God of War could go bigger than that.

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Integrates Emotion Mind and Reasonable Mind Adds intuitive knowing to emotional distress and logical analysis The calm that follows a storm Sees or knows something directly and clearly Grasps the bigger picture, rather than just parts Ensures needs of both Emotion Mind and Reasonable Mind are met: Reasonable Mind is right, but Emotion Mind needs to be soothed What's the most appropriate and effective skills that I could use for this situation?