Sentences with phrase «catastrophe on»

I know that training is the answer and maybe having the dog walker stop by a few more times a day may help... but I now have a couch catastrophe on my hands.

Add in a natural disaster, a scandal, or a lawsuit and you could have a catastrophe on your hands — unless you're prepared.

Right now there might be a rosy hue to your emotional crush, but if you are already sensing a catastrophe on the way in your current relationship if the emotional affair continues, it's time to break the spell.

The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long - Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones

Confronted with a high probability of environmental catastrophe on Earth, the richest people on the planet — people who systematically overeat and who air - condition the outdoor forecourts of gas stations — are unwilling to wait an extra few weeks to increase their incomes by 40 per cent.

And it's also not about trying to do something about it — it will be an economic catastrophe on one side or won't have any effect on the other.

As a result, arguments in favour of a strong, binding agreement have sought moral capital and urgency by claiming that failure to find it will bring catastrophe on the least fortunate in the world.

Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after an earthquake - hit nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital.

Below you can read a helpful «Your Dot» contribution in which Synolakis reflects on how the world has, and hasn't, acted to reduce risk from tsunamis since that extraordinary catastrophe on Boxing Day 10 years ago.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

It takes time, resources, and not a little luck to claw back from a catastrophe on the level of Freddie Gray's death and the subsequent unrest that shook Baltimore and dragged Maryland into the international spotlight.

It's painful to see a once mighty filmmaker like Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) fail, especially when it is a catastrophe on this level.

After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.

At the time of the near - catastrophe on the train, Anthony was a student at Sacramento State College, while Spencer was an airman first - class in the U.S. Air Force and Alek had finished a deployment in Afghanistan with the Oregon Army National Guard.

The first, by Tepco itself last November, placed blame for the nuclear catastrophe on a once - every -1000-year «unforeseeable» combination of earthquake and tsunami.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

«If we don't do something about this very quickly, we have a public health catastrophe on our hands,» Hemingway says.

There is still a huge amount of unapologetic collective responsibility for Blair's Iraq and Brown's economic catastrophe on the Labour front bench.

With that said, I do think that we have a catastrophe on our hands here in America - it's not just unrealistic expectations of infants to sleep a lot through the night, but for adults to not need a lot of sleep and be overworked.

Our Sun is more active than ever recorded and every major catastrophe on this planet in the past couple of years can be directly related to events in our solar system.

The most notorious case might be that of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who failed to see the U.S. housing catastrophe on the cards before he left in 2006.

Applying these suggested preemptive strikes and remedies should help you avoid catastrophe on your next big project.

The estimated impact of historical catastrophes on today's exposures», a repeat of Donna in 2005 would have caused $ 26 billion in insured losses.

Future studies should continue to reveal large - scale patterns of distribution and perhaps shed more light on the origins of mass extinctions and the effects of these catastrophes on the evolution of new species.

The second bit is to plan against catastrophes on a reasonable level.

Framed around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the 2010 video installation spotlights the consequences of manmade catastrophes on the natural world.

By: Larry Bell President Obama has put salvation from dreaded climate catastrophes on his action agenda hot list.

When there is a mechanical failure, or a driver falls asleep behind the wheel, these vehicles can become rolling catastrophes on Florida's crowded freeways.

Not exact matches

He also wrote that his fellow libertarians were on a «fool's errand» trying to achieve their ends through political means: «In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - called «social democracy.»»

the Company's share repurchase plans depend on a variety of factors, including the Company's financial position, earnings, share price, catastrophe losses, maintaining capital levels commensurate with the Company's desired ratings from independent rating agencies, funding of the Company's qualified pension plan, capital requirements of the Company's operating subsidiaries, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, other investment opportunities (including mergers and acquisitions and related financings), market conditions and other factors.

It wouldn't cause catastrophe, but by lowering revenues or widening the already yawning deficits, it would train the spotlight on the potentially disastrous outlook.

Leatherbarrow recently published a book, called «1:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster,» that recounts the catastrophe's history on its 30th anniversary.

A catastrophe is a severe loss designated a catastrophe by internationally recognized organizations that track and report on insured losses resulting from catastrophic events, such as Property Claim Services (PCS) for events in the United States and Canada.

His first hands - on foray into catastrophe - response work came when he flew into Calgary after the city flooded in June 2013, arriving with nothing but a backpack.

(His research interests extend beyond catastrophe: Tilcsik's publications include timely work on race and sexual orientation in the labour market.)

In other words, 90 percent of start - ups fail because the founders get bored, discouraged, or something else, and they move on to other things, not because of some catastrophe.

Co-brooders also tend to focus on all the potentially bad consequences of a particular problem, often predicting future catastrophe,» Quartz says, explaining Bastin's work.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

Recent examples include Chick - fil - A for its stated company - wide stance on same sex marriage, BP for the oil catastrophe in the Gulf and American Apparel for using Hurricane Sandy to promote sales.

Recently, Fisher played the annoying mother in a British TV comedy called «Catastrophe» that streams on Amazon.

The goal is to build on the company's existing two - to - three week training that workers attend before going into real world to inspect homes damaged in earthquakes, floods, and other major catastrophes.

To lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisis.

But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.

That basic formula, so familiar to many women, means putting as much on my plate as possible and hoping nothing falls off — or at least nothing that would lead to catastrophe.

«Not because simply Haiti needs it, but we feel that it would be in the interest of both countries as Haiti is putting in motion its development plan based on the catastrophe of the Earthquake in 2010 and a set of other issues that came up along the way that has slowed down our reconstruction process.»

We're constantly barraged with enormous figures allegedly detailing various catastrophes in our midst: poverty costs the Canadian economy $ 80 billion a year, heart disease and stroke costs $ 21 million, obesity $ 7 billion and so on.

During the global climate talks in Paris in December 2015, Polman drummed home the point to business leaders and politicians that companies» survival depended on averting environmental catastrophe.

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.

Successful entrepreneurs may not dwell on those downtimes, but they willingly accept them as well as the lessons that come from self - induced catastrophes.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.