Sentences with phrase «calamitous losses»

«For anyone at the twilight of his life, these irreparable and calamitous losses would have shattered anybody.

And the calamitous loss of native birds to avian malaria is a key factor in the Hawaii's high extinction rate.

Avian Malaria in Hawaii The extinction hotspot in the world is Hawaii, mainly because of the calamitous loss of native birds to avian malaria.

Your death, being a sole - earning member of the family, can be a calamitous loss and make it difficult for your dependents to move on with their lives in the same way as before.

Thus, while car insurance is a necessary hassle that keeps you legal to operate a motor vehicle and keeps society running with a little less chaos, home insurance is your best — and sometimes only — protection against the calamitous loss of your home.

Not exact matches

Here the calamitous push towards a new tomorrow and the resulting take - no - prisoner urban development is brilliantly explored by a set of Cui Jie's painting and sculpture of impersonal high rise developments, whereas Pixie Liao's photograph «In One Dress» laments the loss of individuality as a price for progress.

Given that this 2.0 C goal calculation apparently excludes the ~ doubling of warming due to the predictable loss of the «sulphate parasol», and excludes all carbon feedback outputs, it is hard to see how an additional forcing from feedback permafrost methane «comparable to what CO2 can do» can be viewed as anything but calamitous.