Sentences with phrase «calamitous year»

Despite a supposedly calamitous year for disasters, Munich Re actually made a profit of Eu2.6 bn in 2016, well ahead of its target of Eu2.3 bn.

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When John Roth thinks back on the oil market of two years ago, a certain calamitous image comes to mind: «I liken it to pushing a freight train off the top of a hill,» says Roth, manager of the $ 3 billion Fidelity New Millennium Fund.

The bill signing marks one of Obama's last official acts in a year beset by a partial government shutdown, a near - default by the Treasury, a calamitous health care rollout and near - perpetual congressional gridlock.

Though, she cautioned that the threat of a government shutdown and the fiscal restraint imposed by years of the 2013 sequester, which will cut more than $ 1 trillion in government spending through 2021, could be calamitous.

Eastdil, meanwhile, had a calamitous 2017, falling by 88 percent in dollar volume year over year.

Perhaps best remembered for his error against the USA four years ago, Green has an unfortunate reputation for the calamitous but on more than one occasion has shown himself to be a competent and reliable goalkeeper, such as at QPR this seeason

Nonetheless, with the calamitous nature of the season we had last year, we really should have done more - even if it is to send a message to our rivals.

The 25 year old had a decent season at the Turin club but was unable to prevent a calamitous season that saw the Old Lady of Italian football go through three managers and finish in seventh spot and flail disastrously in the Champions League where they finished in third spot before falling to Fulham in the Europa League.

One of those was Hector Bellerin, who will not be available tomorrow, but is hoping very much that things are different at the London Arena after the calamitous visit to the Boleyn Ground last year.

Were it not for Wenger's stubbornness, miscalculation and calamitous behaviour, Arsenal would by now be cruising to winning their first EPL title in ten years, considering our position right now.

After signing for Arsenal following an impressive 2014 World Cup campaign, Ospina was left on the bench until a calamitous performance by Wojciech Szczesny in Southampton last new years day was compounded by the Polish international being caught having a crafty smoke in the showers.

There is no debate that David Moyes has a tarnished reputation in the UK after his calamitous tenure at Manchester United came to an abrupt end 10 months into a 6 year contract.

Arsenal had a bid for Evans rebuffed by West Brom last year but Arsene Wenger wants to sign a centre - half after his side's calamitous start to the season and could look to muscle in on City's efforts to sign the player.

His calamitous management of that year's budget was labeled an «omnishambles» after being forced into a series of humiliating U-turns.

Surveys of amphibian and reptile populations stretch back to 1970 and, by compiling this data, Whitfield and his colleagues detected a calamitous decline that no one had noticed: a 75 percent drop in the total amount of amphibians over that 35 - year period.

Sure, Signs made money, and The Village has its defenders, but after the calamitous Lady in the Water, it was commercial do or die for the 38 - year - old.

Commenting, she said: «The Government's calamitous, rushed through reforms to the exams system have put extreme pressure on pupils taking their GCSEs this year.

Its 2 Reality - Based nominees are Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852 — 1903 and Lennon: The New York Years, both from European creators.

For the first time in 30 years of dangerously going it alone, this ambitious adventure gave players the freedom to take things at their own pace and get completely lost in lands ravished by calamitous intent, where courage and curiosity are rewarded with whimsy and endless wonder.

For years now, I've been exploring whether words alone, without a calamitous kick from nature, can jog humanity to cut short its long love affair with fossil fuels for the sake of limiting the odds of dangerous global warming.

The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at M.I.T. has published work, described earlier this year, that greatly elevates the odds of calamitous global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse gases.

So at the IPCC estimates of 0.000 -0.019 mm / year, we'll all have to be very patient indeed [22,000 mm divided by 0.000 mm / year is never and that is a very, very long time, and at 0.019 mm / year means 1,160,000 years, which is pretty long too] to see this calamitous event unfold.

Which is why the University of Toronto mathematics grad — who also attended Oxford — began playing with numbers six years ago when scientific assertions were being made about the Earth's calamitous rising temperatures.

Past episodes in the earth's history, especially one that occurred about 55 million years ago, featured drastic warming accompanied by sea - level rise and other events that would be calamitous for today's civilization.

The Note 8 is also a big launch for Samsung not only as the company's fall flagship, but the return of the Note brand to market following last year's calamitous Note 7 failure.