Sentences with phrase «buried by the avalanche»

The Supreme Court turned them all down (likely to avoid being buried by an avalanche of 100 school districts filing Amicus briefs to explain how the Levy Swipe plan will harm their students).

A retired couple in the Boston area told the Boston Globe last week that they also are being buried by an avalanche of junk from unsolicited Amazon packages over the span of several months.

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Here's one bit that may have been buried under the avalanche of health care news that came out this week: the latest Medicare Trustees» report projects that Medicare will become insolvent by 2029.

Any enthusiast of winter sports dreads being overtaken by an avalanche, knowing that there is little chance of freeing oneself once buried beneath the mass of snow — snow that becomes hard as concrete until the buried person can no longer move as much as a finger.

I feel like this review is shockingly late, especially as all evidence the game ever existed is currently getting buried under an avalanche of Batman: Arkham City excitement (which will be followed by the Uncharted 3, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Halo avalanches — look, it's just not a good time of year to not be a juggernaut game title).

These have included a commission by the BBC and the Arts Council of Wales to create a 5 - channel video installation on the occasion of the 40 - year anniversary since the Aberfan disaster, when the village became «famous» after having lost nearly all of its children in a manmade avalanche that buried Aberan's only elementary school.

Animal rights activists are up in arms about a proposed experiment which would try to better understand what factors may help people survive an avalanche — by burying pigs in snow to monitor their slow deaths.

While researchers defend their study, asserting that it could help save lives, those in opposition say that the deaths would be nothing short of cruel and senseless.The study hopes that by monitoring the buried pigs, researchers will have a better understanding the role of air pockets in surviving avalanche situations and avoiding brain damage from asphyxiation.

It was right after the birth of our second daughter, when «divide and conquer» became a mantra for a life buried by a bewildering avalanche of joyful yet arduous obligations.