Sentences with phrase «catastrophe if»

The truth is that any life insurance company in their right mind can see the PR upside to paying the death benefit and the PR catastrophe if they didn't.

This may not be a catastrophe if your skateboard injury business is big enough to handle the increased acquisition cost.

Judith, You wrote: ``... I am not seeing a big rationale for climate catastrophe if the see ice melts?

But neither do I think that following policies that will make such a way of life compulsory for all — in the hope of avoiding some imagined catastrophe if the winter nights get a degree or so warmer and the sealevel rises a foot or two — is a sensible course.

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).

Fifty - four percent (54 %) of voters in Kerry's party think the world is headed toward an irreversible catastrophe if we fail to deal with global warming in the near future.

Thirty - six percent (36 %) of voters agree with the urgency Kerry expressed in his speech in Indonesia and say the world is headed toward an irreversible catastrophe if we fail to deal with global warming in the near future.

Catastrophe if you don't invest HERE!

We can't institute the policies needed to save the nation and the world from multi-decade (if not multi-century) catastrophe if traditional progressives are the only ones pushing this issue.

Nothing in the USGCRP report or the FAR supports calling 2oC a guarantee of no harmful effects or a trigger that ensures catastrophe if it is exceeded.

So even though you may be able to shoot your iPhone 200 feet into the sky for a shot with a $ 59 rig, you are at risk of catastrophe if the drone fails.

This may be all you have to do to avert catastrophe if the puppy will accept the meal.

With less debt, you save money on interest charges and reduce your risk of financial catastrophe if your income is disrupted and you are unable to make payments.

We are a country where many of our people are living on the edge of catastrophe if not in the middle of it.

Up until this point, the bond has been special, but that is put to the test once a genetic experiment gone wrong changes George and other animals into enormous creatures that threaten to cause a global catastrophe if not somehow contained.

Your smell is a subtle feature that conveys vital social and personal implications — so forgetting to apply the anti-perspirant could be a catastrophe if your date lands on a warm summers evening.

These giant space rocks would cause a global catastrophe if one were to strike the Earth (watch a Japanese simulation of the effects of a huge 100 - km - wide impactor).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic legislators and tenant advocates all say that there won't be any major catastrophe if the laws do expire.

And even a small fight in a ball park or stadium could become a catastrophe if a wall or upper - deck railing gave way under the weight of leaning or jostling bodies.

Entry triggers and protective stops are one's protection from catastrophe if the trade doesn't move in one's favor.

Opinion: Rapid technological advances will destroy some jobs, but it doesn't need to be a catastrophe if we take steps to manage the transition

Pruitt's denialism serves as cover for administration - wide policies certain to result in planetary catastrophe if gone unchecked.

Rapid technological advances will destroy some jobs, but it doesn't need to be a catastrophe if we take steps to manage the transition

Obesity is an energetic problem in the food chain impairing human existence promising to bring catastrophes if not solved accordingly.

Surely the theoretical risk of accidents (catastrophes if you like) associated with civil nuclear reactors are on an insignificant scale relative to the risks faced by humanity by running out of energy.

I am equally concerned by those who allege that we will incur economic catastrophes if we take steps to slow climate change.

While much of the world has reacted with shock and sympathy to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, senior government leaders in Germany warned the United States to expect more natural catastrophes if it did not get serious about global warming.

Because of the Climategate scientists fraudulent science, and their propaganda of imminent world catastrophes if nothing was done about CO2 emissions immediately, it caused all the focus to be on a questionable, nebulous problem with an impossible political / economic solution, instead of actually focusing on real world climate and environment problems that could be solved.

Not exact matches

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

If you find yourself in the midst of a catastrophe or can not find your way out of a problem, I have three tips for controlling the damage.

After reading this book your perspective on founding a startup may change because if the main character, Louie Zamperini, overcame the challenges and catastrophes he faced, then so can you.

And if it's a big enough hole, you might go down really fast, just like some of the financial firm catastrophes of 2008.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

«This requires balance, if it is a critical user - based website where users need to depend on it like Ebay or Mint.com, an outage could mean catastrophe.

The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

He also used the 2008 financial crisis and the idea of black swan events to point out that if a broken system is allowed to fail, it actually strengthens it against the catastrophe of future black swan events.

For scare value, the 2014 Ebola epidemic looms largest in recent memory; while it ended by killing «only» 11,310 people in West Africa, it looked for a time as if it might become a global catastrophe.

every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally over-bearing.

If you were to experience financial catastrophe and find yourself in bankruptcy court, it's entirely possible several million dollars of your 401 (k) balance could be protected from creditors as the courts have been hesitant to invade retirement principal.

If that happens, economists and some public officials are warning, a second catastrophe will unfold — one with severe long - term consequences for the territory and its people.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

If the catastrophes that are already happening, and the greater ones that are now inevitable, are to be contained and limited, there must be profound changes in institutions.

She avoided a catastrophe and I was glad for that, but I do believe she might be better off today if she had stayed put for a while and worked through some things at home first.

God sent this [fill in the blank catastrophe here] to warn us that if we don't return to God, he will send more death and destruction upon us all until our nation is no more!

If our prayer is that we be spared the ultimate human catastrophe, the answer is No.

Surveying the desert of modernity, we would be, I think, morally derelict not to acknowledge that Nietzsche was right in holding Christianity responsible for the catastrophe around us (even if he misunderstood why); we should confess that the failure of Christian culture to live up to its victory over the old gods has allowed the dark power that once hid behind them to step forward in propria persona.

And utter catastrophe does look like a realistic possibility, even if it is not the most likely outcome.

As Harvard's Martin Weitzman has argued in several influential papers, if there is a significant chance of utter catastrophe, that chance — rather than what is most likely to happen — should dominate cost - benefit calculations.

We wonder if there does not exist a comparable relationship of correspondence between the Joseph story and that third phase of Israel's history which is separated from the second by the sixth - century catastrophe of the Fall of the state of Israel and the Babylonian Exile.

How is it that if the temperature of the planet changes a couple of degrees, still well within its recent historical range, it's a catastrophe.