Sentences with phrase «by tidal waves»

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Hundreds of people living along the coast of the Ellembelle, Jomoro and Nzema East districts in Nzema of the western region were on Sunday 17th April 2016 displayed by tidal waves.

This is not the first time the Ankobra community has been affected by the tidal waves, every year its happen to them.

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

What if I am being submerged and sucked under by a tidal wave of obligation and regular life?

An earthquake, followed by a tidal wave, strikes North Africa, destroying a whole city and slaying thousands.

But the «Village of Harlem,» as Rangel referred to the district he has represented for 45 years, has been profoundly altered in recent years by a tidal wave of demographic changes.

Rather than going the Roland Emmerich «big tableaux of destruction» route, Pompeii reduces the disaster to a series of steeplechase set pieces, fiery debris raining into the 3 - D foreground as the characters scamper over bodies and ruins or try to outrun a ship that's been forced inland by a tidal wave.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

These titles are just going to be overshadowed by this tidal wave of Naruto.

Since then, they've been washed away by a tidal wave of MBAs, VAR / correlation models, etc... oh, and of course, an exponential expansion of trading / credit losses...

The town made history in 1969 when it was hit by a tidal wave.

The simple pleasure of being quick on the draw or clever in a fight is often washed away by the tidal wave of stuff.

Not exact matches

Within a year of launching Slack in 2013, Butterfield was surfing a frothy tidal wave of interest, with the user base growing by a stunning 5.5 % per month.

This is thanks to the dual tidal waves of the need for a way to monetize jewelry to pay the bills for many of our neighbors and the desire to exploit the bull market in gold by some of our other neighbors.

Many people put off this task because they feel overwhelmed by what they perceive as a tidal wave of information, options, and decisions.

And, though Buscher had seen the place safely through multiple floods, tidal waves, and Hurricanes Iwa and Dot during her tenure, the immense damage done by Iniki closed the Coco Palms for good.

The piecemeal approach to a few of the sociologically understandable and manageable problems, which is favored by so many, seems woefully inadequate to stem the tidal wave of destruction.

Monaco was the next race of the season and it was characterised by freak tidal wave on the first lap, which flooded the harbour and caused almost half of the field to retire.

The visitor who allows himself some slack time to wander about, visiting a volcano here, a seacoast there, is taken by the remarkable capacity these small islands have for absorbing almost anything, whether it be a mile - wide stream of hot lava, a tidal wave, an incursion of mongooses and rats or a touring busload of Stetsoned Texans.

The large contingent of Scottish Lib Dems was, like Scottish Labour, swept away by the SNP tidal wave.

Answers received by Ms Swinson also show the # 2 million budget for monitoring the environmental impact of wave and tidal energy has gone unspent, as has four fifths of the available budget for infrastructure support

His question was drowned out by a great tidal wave of laughter from the government benches.

The combination of Eastleigh and Italy have between them unleashed a tidal wave of commentary about the drawbacks of being governed by the professional politics.

While write in ballots totaled an impressive 453 (it is unclear how many of them belong to Samuels because the Board of Elections does not tabulate them on election night unless they are numerous enough to be a deciding factor) Samuels found himself swamped on election day by the expected Democratic tidal wave, carrying appointed incumbent Richard Heppner to his first elected term with 1580 votes, and Lorin Rose into office with 1338 votes.

Newsday's Dan Janison argues Clinton is still not ready to ride the tidal wave that is the «political revolution» being sought by Sanders and his supporters.

All the signs are there for an econoic meltdown - falling retail sales, a slaughter of public sector jobs, a tidal wave of construction industry job loses about to break, it will be Eire Take II by the autumn and the coalition will go the way of Fianna Fail.

De Blasio was sent to Gracie Mansion last November riding a tidal wave of an anti-NYPD sentiment fueled largely by skyrocketing stop - and - frisks and quality - of - life arrests under the Bloomberg administration.

We are inclined to agree with her captain in his belief that many smaller and less stoutly built ships which have disappeared utterly at sea, may have been sent to the bottom by the crushing in of their decks under so - called «tidal waves» of these dimensions.»

The film also shows a large tidal wave, caused by the powerful eruption, which sends at least one ship from the nearby bay crashing into the city itself.

The French designer rose to pop hero status in the 1980s on a tidal wave of glossy magazine articles about the bad boy of design who flunked college, roared around Paris on his motorcycle, locked himself away for weeks to concentrate on generating his prolific outpouring of drawings, and tormented manufacturers by tweeking designs at the very last minute.

Entries poured in for the # 10 million ($ 17 million) Saltire Prize, to be awarded by the government of Scotland for wave or tidal energy technology that can produce a continuous output of 100 gigawatt - hours for two years.

There are at least 100 volcanoes on the islands, 35 of them still active, and the islands are often hit by earthquakes and tidal waves.

Under - ocean waves are started by tidal flow over the seafloor.

Interactions between these different wave systems, and between the waves and the tidal current were found to add or reduce the wave height at the coast by up to 2m.

A recent report from the Rand Corporation found that the most pressing limitations on the nation's ability to confront the expected tidal wave of new Alzheimer cases include limited access to dementia specialists, PET imaging to diagnose patients, and infusion centers to deliver new treatments being developed by the pharmaceutical industry.

But it's the derring - do where the computer really comes in handy: «Flushed Away» is by far the most ambitious Aardman feature when it comes to set pieces, a high - speed chase (with Toad's helpers on electric mixers) and a tidal wave created by the Big Flush during halftime of the World Cup soccer final.

In the wake of #MeToo and the tidal wave of outrage over allegations of ongoing sexual misconduct by the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner, James Toback and many more, The New York Times reports that 300 prominent female actors, agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives have formed a vast and ambitious initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment not only in Hollywood a but also in blue - collar workplaces nationwide.

It's easy to get overwhelmed by this topsy - turvy world of ours, with an ever - looming tidal wave of responsibilities that only gets larger and larger with each passing year.

Just know that they arrive, hover and wreak havoc in a series of waves: a devastating electromagnetic pulse, followed by earthquakes and tsunamis (with tidal wave effects that look pretty cheesy), then an avian flu, then snipers, I think...?

It wants us to experience this universally intangible concept in all of its glory, be that a tidal wave of centuries that sweep by in the blink of an eye or a tragic, almost voyeuristic long take of Rooney Mara drowning her grief by consuming an entire pie in front of us.

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.

They find that Atlantis is still inhabited by citizens who survived the tidal wave that engulfed the city, and Milo is determined to find out exactly how they managed to live for thousands of years and to protect them from ruthless mercenaries.

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.

It's like being picked up and swept away by a silent force, a tidal wave perhaps, and you feel your eyeballs squeeze against their sockets and your brain press against the back of your skull.

First few gears serve to squish your internals, while the last few haul you in one long relentless tidal wave of torque by the time which you are on the wrong side of 200kph.

Rather than hiking a trail towards success, I'm navigating a storm - tossed sea, hurled about by towering tidal waves.

She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution that swept across Europe.

Theoretically, DRM protects publishers from the tidal wave of piracy that swept away much of the music industry by preventing readers from sharing the books that they've bought with friends, or on file - sharing sites.