Sentences with phrase «by avalanches»

Last year, the city of Juneau, AK reduced energy consumption by more than 30 % when they were cut off from cheap hydroelectric power by avalanches.

Originally bred as a rescue dog in the Swiss Alps, this breed's huge size and resistance to cold it was able to keep people who were trapped by avalanches warm when it pulled them to safety.

In 1870, Pyrenean blood was used with that of other large breeds to help bring back the St. Bernard after that noble dog's numbers had been so greatly depleted by avalanches and distemper at the hospice in Switzerland.

If only he could deliver when the film needs that shot of adrenaline for the action scenes as he fails to connect us to the immediacy of the moment as characters get overrun by avalanches of poorly - animated CGI zombie hordes while keeping the focus on Gerry, the one character we're all but assured is safe.

The scientists were able to date individual events by analysing the growth rings and wounds left on the trees by avalanches.

One of the most uncomfortably funny movies you'll ever see, it follows a family whose ski trip is interrupted by an avalanche.

None of us needs to be reminded of that the crypto market has been hit by an avalanche with prices declining more than 50 % for the...

The latest market share data release by comScore was followed, as always, by the avalanche of «you haven't seen the last of Microsoft» and «Yahoo is going to beat Google as soon as they restructure» type of posts.

The handful of earlier verses in the koran that speak of tolerance (when mohammad was weak and needed to rearm and resupply) are overwhelmed by an avalanche of later ones that carry a much different message of hate, punishment and DEATH.

Fatigued by the avalanche of taste - alike, burn - alike super-hot chile strains, crosses and hybrids, I offer a challenge to video reviewers and hobby growers: objectively tell the difference between them using only your taste buds.

The same tune every year, we will beat Stoke, Giroud will score a goal or two and the AKB's will start praising their Icon singing WENGER knows best, and on so on and so forth another season aiming for that 4th (3rd better), business as usual bullying the low feeders and struggling to draw with the top four or not loose by an avalanche of goals................

An FA decision which with certain distinguished exceptions, notably Terry Venables, who got the England job which could well have gone to Hodgson in 1994, has been greeted by an avalanche of outrage in the media; and angry scepticism among tens of thousands of fans.

«Ten women gave birth to dead babies as they had no access to health facilities in past few weeks, adding that two other children were killed by an avalanche while traveling from one village to another,» said Hashir.

The snow crystals in the debris pile left by an avalanche are packed together so densely that they feel more like concrete than snow.

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.

A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on «summer pastures» at a time when the animals had not yet grown their protective winter coats and were ill prepared for the harsh conditions.

What is required is that the skiers have the application installed and have a smartphone with them; this applies both to those who are searching and whoever is trapped by the avalanche.

Dunes are known to make two very different musiclike sounds when sand is sheared (commonly by the avalanche process).

Slowly but surely, antibiotics and accutane are being drowned by an avalanche of unstoppable natural weapons.

What makes this accomplishment even more impressive is that she and her teammates were struck by an avalanche at 20,600 feet and it took six Sherpas to dig them out.

Granted, whatever poignancy you might be tempted to draw from is completely rolled over by the avalanche of prurience that this film indulges in, but poignancy is so out of the picture here that it's not even a consideration.

They are, instead, intent on showing how the three risk death by avalanche, by falls, and if you can bear to look at a close - up of their fingers and toes, by gangrene.

The train is partially derailed by an avalanche, and while the group is stranded, he is discovered dead inside his locked cabin.

We know from attending a variety of education events over the last few months that those responsible for energy bills in school are often overwhelmed, confused and frustrated by the avalanche of information and options available and would give anything for some clarity and simplicity.

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).

The current - generation Cherokee found that out first - hand when its debut in 2013 was greeted by an avalanche of criticism from an indignant public that couldn't believe that Jeep became a little too playful with the model's looks.

With everyone from Samsung to Augen joining the tablet gold rush, the market's being hit by an avalanche of Android - powered slates.

He's stunned, muted by the avalanche of the mundane.

A number of fatalities are feared at the Rigopiano Hotel in the Abruzzo region of Italy after the property was hit by an avalanche.

For those too young to remember it when initially released in» 97, this is the game that brought us Cloud Strife, who is hired by AVALANCHE, which is an eco-terrorist group.

Hopefully, we can avoid being crushed by the avalanche of FOIA request responses from the federal climate science community.

The Mount Rose Highway between Reno and Lake Tahoe has been closed by an avalanche that dropped 20 feet of snow on the road.

In the event Pruitt were forced from office by the avalanche of scandals swirling around him, Wheeler — if confirmed as the agency's number two — would suddenly be running the EPA.

Over the years Bob has mentored 100s of students, has been honored with many awards and, judging by the avalanche of tributes that have come in over the past week, he is renowned, respected and loved across the globe.

BCPs in the White Mtns are scarred by avalanche, lightning and rock slides among other things.

Snowed in by an avalanche of patent infringements, the group was «struggling to find associates to fill the work that's coming in.

There are endless pieces of information published around the clock, and sometimes logging onto Twitter can feel like being crushed by an avalanche of content.

None of us needs to be reminded of that the crypto market has been hit by an avalanche with prices declining more than 50 % for the...

None of us needs to be reminded of that the crypto market has been hit by an avalanche with prices declining more than 50 % for the biggest asset caps and much more for the top ICOs of last year.

And, third - party developers ranging from Hyundai and GE to a host of startups all announced Alexa integration in 2016 followed by an avalanche of new Alexa - enabled devices at CES.

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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Read enough of these stories — as well as the avalanche of posts and articles out there urging you to up your productivity by getting up early — and you're bound to feel a little guilty if you're not naturally up and at»em at dawn.

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.

But you can't predict an avalanche by this layer, alone.

The best way is to make sure that the technology then groups the avalanche of email by client and project so that a user can easily see what's going on when desired.

While other get - out - of - debt strategies can be cheaper — you'd likely pay less in interest charges, for instance, by using the debt avalanche method — the debt snowball method feels better to some people.

who have not seen their portfolio hammered by the dot com bubble and the Great Recession will undoubtedly think different when looking at Personal Capital only to see their portfolio slide like an avalanche.

Those kinds of personal attacks are meant to wear down and break a target — to push a public figure out of public life by bombarding them with a never - ending avalanche of smears and accusations.

And all this avalanche was caused by a not very successful attempt by a porn actress Stormy Daniel to make a photo robot of a man who allegedly threatened her and her daughter if she did not give up attempts to cancel the agreement between her and Donald Trump, forbidding her to publish memories of their not quite platonic relationships, at the time in his life, when he could not imagine himself as President of the United States even in his worst nightmare.

And strangely enough, it seems to me that the forthcoming Korean Reunification, the state visit to the US of Macron's dandruff, the fleetingness of negotiations with Merkel, and even the publication of intelligence data about Iran's development of an atomic bomb by Bibi Netanyahu all fit into an oil painting depicting an avalanche - like frontal offensive by Trump.