Sentences with phrase «by the damage inflicted»

But the researchers also were motivated by the damage inflicted during the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons.
A complete biotic inventory for an area is essential to recognize invasive species before they become conspicuous by the damage they inflict, and to recognize that species previously present are gone before their absence has follow - on effects.

Not exact matches

It represents a failure to recognize the underlying causes of the damage storms inflict, and to seize the very real opportunity we have to head off this damage by taking action now.
Only emergency support from the ECB is keeping the banks afloat and saving Greece from a chaotic euro exit that would inflict more pain on its people and gravely damage the currency, the strongest symbol of the EU's drive for an «ever closer union» on a continent once ravaged by two world wars.
Israel's decision on whether to bomb Iran's nuclear sites — as it has repeatedly threatened to do — could hinge on its estimate of the retaliatory costs, including damage inflicted by rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
... this book suggests concrete investing strategies to make Congress's systemic dysfunction work for you, and to hedge the risk and damage that Congress so casually and relentlessly inflicts on your life savings as represented by your portfolio and your house.»
Leaving aside the damage inflicted on the countries subjected to «democratization» — a large number of direct and indirect victims, the replacement of traditional social structures by chaos — we can see the problems the globalist utopia creates in the West.
One of the things I'm taking away from this epic conversation is the level of personal damage that can be inflicted when people start making their living by making the bible their bitch.
They even teach their children to discriminate against non-members and my young son suffered permanent emotional damage inflicted upon him by little Mormon boys (who picked on and bullied my son in our neighborhood) who think they're going to be Gods with their own planets some day!
But we could too easily replace this shallowness by another, cruel as sentimental attitudes inevitably are, which leaves out of account the presence in human life of the sheerly irrevocable, of that which has been done, and it is now too late to undo, of the damage inflicted on others that can not be put right and that no interpretation can possible render edifying.
By unnecessarily and cruelly inflicting suffering and death upon children / infants as the collateral damage of god's decision to exterminate their parents when these children / infants were incapable of a free will choice to engage evil or reject god.
After reducing the just causes for resort to force to one, self - defense (§ 2308), the Catechism further limits this in § 2309 by four prudential conditions, all of which it says must be satisfied: «the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or the community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective [last resort]; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.
In 1921, reparations were based on the damages inflicted by outright war, not social or political wrongs, and they were imposed by the winners on the losers.
At present there is a balance of terror through the possession by each of the world's major antagonists of the means to inflict mortal damage on the other.
the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
After all, a point away from home against the champions would not be a bad result by any means, whereas yet another defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the Arsenal players.
The C's certainly needed something to rouse them from their nightmare scenario that was punctuated by the ease in which the Bulls inflicted their damage on Boston's psyche.
So the former Arsenal academy star Kristoffer Olsson and his team mates from the Danish champions FC Midtjylland did us a massive favour by inflicting a painful and damaging defeat on Louis van Gaal and his players last night.
But has a plan to inflict a damage to Arsenal quest to pick the League winners runner's up ticket by forcing the Gunners to an unwanted draw game.
That is by no means an insurmountable obstacle but the fact that we would have inflicted another damaging blow to their confidence and morale would make a Tottenham title win extremely unlikely.
First up is the visit of City, who may still be reeling after the shock home defeat by Stoke City in their last Premier League outing, so a fast start by Arsenal at home is definitely the order of the day, while I am sure that former United man Welbeck will be extra keen to inflict more damage on his old enemies.
Leicester's Jamie Vardy twice broke clear to latch on to balls over the top and was only prevented from inflicting further damage by smart blocks by Joe Hart.
The damage a small child can inflict is equal to the child's weight multiplied by his age, multiplied again by the cost of the object in question.
Basically, if diplomacy will not work, the damage inflicted by the aggressor is going to be serious and certain, the war against those damages will not produce greater evils AND Vatican City has a reasonable chance to win the war, than the Pope may declare war if he so wishes.
The recent UK growth statistics underline the catastrophic damage and continuing aftershocks inflicted by the financial meltdown in 2008 - 9, exacerbated by the never - ending crisis in the eurozone.
Perhaps Mr. Pataki's attempting to improve his standing in the history books by helping to ensure there's at least one governor capable of doing even more lasting damage to New York than he managed to inflict himself.
Besides weed does not do nearly the damage that the opioids produced by legal drug companies inflict on our communities!
«New York is no stranger to the damage that severe weather can inflict on communities, and time and time again, we have stepped up to provide real relief to families affected by storms,» Cuomo said.
But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.
As former Labour minister Andrew Adonis notes on the book's back cover: «To paraphrase Churchill, never in recent times has so much damage been inflicted by so few on so many.»
Cuomo and his administration have announced or budgeted for multiple projects over the past few months that promise to heal urban neighborhoods by repairing the damage inflicted by mid-century highways.
New York State has been actively coordinating with our federal partners as we begin to rebuild and recover from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irene,» Governor Cuomo said.
Several of the Republican Party's most generous donors called on the RNC to disavow Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women that he had groped or made inappropriate sexual advances toward them threatened to inflict lasting damage on the party's image.
Photos of him being wined and dined by lobbyists also inflicted damage.
After the damage inflicted on the Liberal Democrats by their coalition deal with the Conservatives in 2010 - 15, the centrist party ruled out any reprise.
Dozens of Labour MPs, anxious about the electoral damage inflicted by the row over the Tory smears, want Mr Draper banished to the political wilderness.
The Tories» poll numbers have never recovered from the damage inflicted by that spring budget, so their minimal demand was an autumn statement that did no obvious further harm.
It was when we were led by Howard that UKIP inflicted great damage on us in both the Euro - elections and at the General Election.
By the time of the general election next year, senior Labour strategists accept the Ukip vote will not shrink back to the 3 % it polled in the 2010 general election, but still believe the bulk of the Ukip damage then will be inflicted on the Conservatives.
Frankly, there was little more collateral damage that could have been inflicted to the Labour brand by voting against the measures.
«We've made significant progress rebuilding after the terrible damage inflicted by superstorm Sandy, but there's still more work ahead,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release.
«It beggars belief that CWU chief Dave Ward says today that the disruption caused by the CWU strike is hurting customers, yet at the same time calls a national strike ballot to step up the damage they are already inflicting on customers big and small.
The panel, organized by Manhattan Borough President and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer, said the number of guns recovered as a result of stop and frisk doesn't justify the damage the tactic inflicts upon police and community relations.
Whatever the political damage Lord Hutton's report could inflict by criticising the government's treatment of David Kelly, few expect his pen to assassinate a prime minister.
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
For instance, more accurate data could be used to gauge the effect of wealth on violence, or the severity of the economic damage inflicted by violent conflict.
The damage inflicted by some invasive species has been well documented.
As the first quantification of damage inflicted by Argentine ants, the study «gives us a good idea of the way native ants interact with exotic species,» says Terry McGlynn, an ant ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.
If we choose to reduce our arsenal to what is viewed by many as a credible deterrent, maybe 300, 400 weapons, which is vastly fewer than 10,000, but would still inflict, you know, horrific damage to anybody foolish enough to challenge us on that front, well then we'll be living in a slightly different world; or we could, as George Shultz, et al argued, «Try to work towards a world free of nuclear weapons in their entirety and put this destructive genie back in the bottle.»
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