Sentences with word «brushfire»

«We want to create brushfires of excellence.»

Then a rash of small brushfires erupted.

A small social media brushfire can turn quickly into a raging reputation management inferno.

Snakes and donkeys talk, time stands still, brushfires speak, a man lives for days inside a fish and women turn to salt.

Not that they don't have brushfires once in a while, but their testing, their education, their discipline programs have gone a great distance in resolving the problem.»

We were pretty shocked to pass a LOT of empty lots along the way completely burned to the ground, with only fireplaces remaining — California brushfires have been so prominent this year (along with the US hurricanes, yikes).

The next ticket waiting to be claimed was for director, David Gordon Green's «Prince Avalanche» starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, playing road maintenance workers mending an area ravaged by brushfires in 1988.

she muses — and her co-workers at her London news channel wheel out a cake with a small brushfire atop it.

The fifth slot had gone to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a much - ballyhooed Christmastime release that hadn't exactly flopped, but neither had it inspired brushfire enthusiasm among critics or ticket - buyers.

The six islands (with more awaiting completionists) unite a ton of nifty themes, from savannah brushfires to sinking ships, and the difficulty scales up at just the right pace.

«Instead of brushfires for excellence, we need infernos of excellence.

In early January, major brushfires burned in the states of Tasmania, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria.

Oh, and then you have strong currents in the ocean, outbreaks of brushfires across the country in the summer months, and weather that gets so hot that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology had to add new colors to their heat index weather map in 2013.

It survived several brushfires, including the 1993 Malibu firestorm that burned more than 200 homes in the vicinity.

Brushfires?

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's nomination of a charter school executive to the state Board of Education has met with a brushfire of opposition from a teachers union.Earlier this month, Malloy nominated Andrea Comer, 47, chief operating officer for the charter...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's nomination of a charter school executive to the state Board of Education has met with a brushfire of opposition from a teachers union.

«The primary risk that climate change may pose would be any potential increase in the frequency or intensity of strong thunderstorms, hurricanes or brushfires,» the company said on a climate risk disclosure form that California began requiring insurers to file this year.

Other surface fires occur where coal seams that sit close to the earth's crust are ignited by lightning strikes, forest fires, or brushfires.

The problem, as the authors see it, is that just as a parched forest rarely sees just one brushfire, if one pandemic virus emerges, it's likely that another will pop up somewhere else soon.

Duncan's hope is to leverage that cash to create a brushfire of reform at the local level: funding and ultimately «scaling up» successful reforms and seeding them elsewhere.

The positive parts of a school leader's work can become lost in the day - to - day business of putting out brushfires — dealing with difficult students and parents, solving staff problems and the like.

«Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's nomination of a charter school executive to the state Board of Education has met with a brushfire of opposition from a teachers union.

«We've never seen a brushfire like this,» National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen Garcia told AFP.

William Smith's staff and students may have started a brushfire, and once you witness the spirit of collaboration among the staff and the sense of excitement among the students, it's clear the fire will burn for some time.

Murray Whyte of the Star notes that not a drop of rain has fallen on Phoenix in the last month, the temperature was over 110 degrees for ten straight days and brushfires are burning everywhere.

«These projected changes will significantly influence our lives by shrinking and degrading the quality of our water resources, increasing the risk of brushfires, worsening pollution and altering the timing and intensity of seasonal illnesses and other health hazards.»

University of Amsterdam Prof. Laurens M. Bouwer reviewed 22 studies of damages from tropical storms, thunder storms, tornados, floods, hail, brushfires, and earthquakes over multiple decades in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

Also, the brushfire hazards that threaten relatively nearby communities like Santa Clarita tend not to be much of a problem here.

Trip cancellation and trip interruption benefits are not payable if a natural hazard (such as a brushfire, tropical storm, or hurricane) is named on or becomes foreseen before the effective date and time of the policy.

The brushfire comes at an inauspicious moment.

No matter what was being discussed at the meeting, at least half of the attendees would be on the phone or checking their pagers and the other half would be looking for ways to get out of the room and put out a brushfire somewhere.