Sentences with phrase «by massive waves»

Military experts warn us our national security is threatened by massive waves of climate refugees destabilizing countries around the world, and scientists tell us the very web of life is endangered by unprecedented extinctions.

He claims national security «is threatened by massive waves of climate refugees destabilizing countries around the world.»

Not exact matches

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

Modern advertisers are confronted with the daunting task of riding this massive wave of technological change in the ad industry without getting drowned by it.

Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.

Now if the Book of Revelation is what you want, with a Messiah who will kill enough people to create a massive river of blood five miles long, merely by an angry wave of his rod - shaped remote control, without any way of stopping him... that doesn't sound very good from a non-killing standpoint.

But Lavine's election did not end up sparking a massive reform wave at the Capitol, (he actually backed then - Speaker Sheldon Silver, who since has been toppled by a federal corruption scandal).

Speaking to the BBC, he said: «There is another concern and risk: the migration issue, in meltdown around the EU, with the EU almost incapable, it seems, of handling this massive wave of migration coming in from, not just by the way Syria.

That's because at seismometers closer to a massive quake's epicenter, the slowly moving vibrations of typical seismic waves often arrive at instruments before Earth's tectonic slabs have stopped shifting, thus masking the signals generated by the temblor's final spasms.

[1] The ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves are created by moving masses, but only the most intense waves, created by rapid speed changes of very massive objects, can be detected by the current generation of detectors.

For a fourth time, physicists have spotted gravitational waves — ripples in space itself — set off by the merger of two massive black holes.

Gravitational waves detectable from Earth are generated by collisions of massive objects, such as when two black holes or neutron stars merge.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

The next 10 years were marked by drought, massive herding losses, rapid soil degradation and wave after wave of nomads migrating to the capital of Ulaanbaatar.

«These waves are caused by massive collisions between objects with a mass far greater than our sun.

Gravitational waves are created by massive objects moving through space - time.

Gravitational waves, the undulations produced in space - time when massive objects move, had long been predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The existence of black holes tens of times more massive than our Sun was confirmed recently by the observation of gravitational waves, produced by the merger of pairs of massive black holes, with the LIGO interferometer.

Thus it addresses a spectrum not covered by experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, which searches for lower - frequency waves to detect massive cosmic events such as colliding black holes and merging neutron stars.

Vigelius and Melatos believe that such waves could even be observable by the existing LIGO detector, depending on how massive the mountains on nearby neutron stars have grown.

The model anticipated the massive black holes observed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.

Any massive particle must be described by a quantum wave that oscillates up and down even if the particle just sits there.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

Last September, that dream came true as 1000 physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, two huge detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed a pulse of waves radiated by two massive black holes as they spiraled into each other a billion light - years away.

Last September, that dream came true as 1000 physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), two huge detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed a pulse of waves radiated by two massive black holes as they spiraled into each other a billion light - years away.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

The Earth and moon can serve as giant detectors for ripples in the fabric of space - time known as gravitational waves, which are given off by stars, black holes and other massive objects in deep space, researchers say.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

The waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein roughly a century ago, are basically ripples in the fabric of space - time caused by the acceleration of really massive objects such as black holes.

Not sure if everyone's going through this massive heat wave (by the looks of Instagram Stories, it seems like many

I just have a feeling of a massive wave of trolls, haters, and oblivious people attacking the console by the 13th

There are shots and scenes here that overwhelm with a sense of the kinetic, uncontrollable force of nature, as the stern section of a massive oil tanker, which has been ripped in two by the waves and a storm, is tossed around like a child's toy in a bathtub.

But it was the massive wave of DVD and VHS that took everybody by surprise.

Much was made in the summer of 2000 over The Perfect Storm «s unexpectedly robust $ 41 million - plus opening weekend, in which it rode a wave of popular appeal over the grand reveal of that massive, swelling wave effects shot, and trounced Roland Emmerich and Mel Gibson's The Patriot by a considerable margin.

The Hollywood sign mercilessly erased by an enormous tornado, the Statue of Liberty submerged by a gigantic tidal wave, the Empire State Building teetering perilously in a massive blizzard — apparently, the post-9 / 11 cinematic moratorium on destroying national landmarks for disposable summer kicks has lasted only two and a half years.

Handsomely shot by Steve Yedlin, Rian Johnson's regular cinematographer, and boasting a typically likable Dwayne Johnson as its star, San Andreas nonetheless struggles to drum up tension or interest, even as skyscrapers topple like Jenga towers and massive tidal waves sweep through San Francisco Bay.

Unfortunately, for all of the noise Prof. Greene makes about proper academic standards, he simply stoops to waving the red flag of anti-communism when he concludes by suggesting that our assertion, «the only reason the superrich have these massive billions, and hence a major voice in policy, is because of unfair tax laws that allow them to keep the vast wealth their employees have created,» reveals us as, uh oh, Marxists!

New Zealand's isolation makes it a good laboratory, since the effects of a policy change will not be diluted by, say, massive immigration or international economic tidal waves.

RS - specific features include a high - performance RS braking system with front «wave» rotors (the fronts are massive 365 mm units gripped by eight - piston monoblock brake calipers) and, of course, the latest quattro all - wheel drive system.

Powered by a handcrafted 5.5 - liter biturbo V - 8 and sculpted largely from aluminum, the S63 Coupe glides from 0 - 60 mph in as little as 3.9 seconds on a massive wave of 577 - hp and 664 lb - ft of torque.

Due to a culmination of events spurred by a massive heat wave, a venomous cobra escapes and requires the apartment complex to be evacuated.

The same bookstore made waves last year when it shared a picture of a massive warehouse fort made out of donated copies of Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.

Colonial stone buildings, the horror days of whaling and a coastline of living granite carved into awesome creations by the massive pounding of King waves surging up from the Southern Ocean.

- split up into three waves - each wave gives the team a quota of eggs to collect, as well as a time limit - goal is to defeat enemies, causing them to drop eggs - haul those eggs back to the basket - if you meet your quota (and you're still alive) when time expires, all remaining enemies retreat and you move on - when you start out, the difficulty can be set to 5 % out of a possible 100 % - heavy Salmonids have armor in the front, so you have to him them in the back - when Inklings take too much damage in Salmon Run, they can be revived by a teammate shooting them with ink - another boss character is a tall, slender creature that approaches from the shoreline - this boss is made up off pots, which you have to shoot to make disappear - another boss is a massive metal eel that rains down ink - the eel is piloted by a Salmonid creature, which you have to take out to stop the eel - another boss has two trashcans attached to the side of it, and it hovers over the battlefield, - a trashcan opens and it rains down blobs of ink onto you - you can take him out by tossing bombs into the open trashcans - Nintendo says that 40 % difficulty is the highest difficulty people on the Nintendo E3 team could beat.

Inkie: My name is Inkie, I started painting Graffiti in Bristol UK in 1984 as part of the first wave of UK graffiti alongside 3D (Massive Attack), Nick Walker and my crew Crime Inc, I was a punk rocker and heavily influenced by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfont's book Subway Art and the Charlie Ahearn movie Wildstyle.

She began this work in the spring of 2015 in the Doha and Gulf region where she was inspired by the massive city structures erected seemingly out of the sand and the scorching temperatures that made a hazy aura as heat waves rose through the air.