Sentences with phrase «catastrophic damages»

Unfortunately, products do not always work in the way that they were intended and can cause catastrophic damages.

An accident between a truck and a smaller motor vehicle can cause catastrophic damages.

He focuses much of his time on insurance coverage disputes, bad faith defense, lawyer and insurance agent malpractice, business litigation, and catastrophic damages caused by all types of casualty risks, including transportation, construction, product liability, fires, and governmental liability, to name a few.

Even a minor error, such as failing to signal when changing lanes, could result in catastrophic damages when a several - ton truck is traveling at a high speed.

The case relates to catastrophic damages allegedly sustained from the use of a popular consumer...

However, if we really are facing catastrophic damages and the equivalent of death trains, the risks of geoengineering have to be compared to other scenarios.

South Asia on a whole and Pakistan in particular once again had to face climate change debacle in the form of heavy floods across the region which not only resulted in loss of lives but also catastrophic damages [continue reading...]

As Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico early Wednesday morning, the powerful Category 4 storm is expected to leave «catastrophic damage» with winds up to 155 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The research group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plug - in for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today.

A smart meter attached can recognize pressure fluctuations such as minor water leakage or impending catastrophic damage.

Many Twitter users shared photographs of the outside of the building suggesting that Lakewood was hardly suffering the kind of catastrophic damage that would necessitate a full shutdown.

Hurricane Maria has caused catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico and the residents will need our help and support to rebuild.

Homeowners insurance policies can cover minor incidents including a leaking roof and faulty plumbing; and, catastrophic damage, as from a storm.

Island countries in the Caribbean are facing catastrophic damage from the one - two punch of Hurricanes Maria and Irma just days apart and Red Cross Societies from around the world are moving disaster workers and supplies into the region to help.

One of the largest recovery missions reside with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for Expedited Debris Removal, where extensive and catastrophic damage exist, and providing critical temporary facilities.

The stadium that Drogba once called home has now erupted in a fiery blaze, causing catastrophic damage to the club's ground.

He is sinking into the bottom of his own world incapable of realizing the catastrophic damage he is doing to us.

There are simply too many unknowns to risk inflicting long - term, potentially catastrophic damage to New York's environment and water supply.»

The recent UK growth statistics underline the catastrophic damage and continuing aftershocks inflicted by the financial meltdown in 2008 - 9, exacerbated by the never - ending crisis in the eurozone.

These grants will ensure our dams and flood control projects are the safest and most efficient they can be to prevent further catastrophic damage similar to what we witnessed last year.»

Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico when it hit as a Category 4 storm Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph.

Reports of catastrophic damage to bridges and roads indicate that the federal government's assistance is necessary.

In Nick's case, the cause was probably catastrophic damage to his olfactory receptor neurons.

«New climate risk classification created to account for potential «existential» threats: Researchers identify a one - in - 20 chance of temperature increase causing catastrophic damage or worse by 2050.»

That way, when catastrophic damage occurs the response is not purely reactive.

Of course, it is possible to inflict catastrophic damage on a system (be it brain or microchip) from which it can not recover, but with more than 100,000 methods of delivery, these microchips could prove to be extremely robust.

Ensuing poverty, emotional and psychological trauma, and its resulting diseases may result in catastrophic damage to lives, health, and psyche.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

Because the whole process of cells becoming free radicals and zooming off on their quest for stability can cause catastrophic damage to the cells in your body.

If you drive the engine long enough with a spun bearing, you can expect sooner or later to cause catastrophic damage to the engine with a rod being thrown through the side of the block, at which point you'll be in for much worse than a rebuild, but a replacement (plus, there'll be a huge mess to clean up).

As little as 1 % of gas in the fuel will cause catastrophic damage to the fuel system.

This large amount of sugar in the system could have caused catastrophic damage to the engine.

The resulting wave, which could reach as high as fifty meters (165 feet), would be strong enough to travel to the East Coast of the United States and on to Florida and the Caribbean, while also causing catastrophic damage to the west coasts of Africa and Europe.

As soon as you contact your insurance company, you set in motion a claims process — the official task of assessing and paying for the catastrophic damage done to your home and personal belongings.

As soon as you contact your insurance company, you set in motion a claims process — the official task of assessing and paying for what may be catastrophic damage done to your home and belongings.

Most are insured for repairs, but in the event of catastrophic damage, it might be necessary to rebuild.

As the people of Puerto Rico continue to recover and rebuild after the recent series of hurricanes tore through the region causing catastrophic damage, North Shore Animal League America continues to do all we can to lend a helping hand.

Over the past month we've seen multiple record setting hurricanes cause catastrophic damage to various parts of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean islands and beyond.

Last year, after historic storms caused catastrophic damage to Big Sur and rendered the region almost entirely inaccessible, the Ventana's current owners — Singapore - based luxury - resort group Alila — took it as an opportunity for a full rejuvenation.

It caused catastrophic damage in Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands before bouncing off of Cuba and heading to the Florida Keys.

Its speed alone gives even an object with a mass of a few hundred thousand kilogram a lot of kinetic energy with te potential for catastrophic damage.

Somebody needs to remind Bjorn Lomborg that seepage of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, from under Siberian permafrost could cause catastrophic damage to the earth.

The knowledge that we MAY be causing irreversible catastrophic damage to our habitat should have been reason enough to act!

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

As long as the 2009 EF exists, the risk of catastrophic damage to the economy from implementation of the EF by future extreme «environmentalist» administrations will remain very real.

Maybe my cynicism is blocking out real truth... but, the pole shifts, that have apparently never been a real issue, stand to cause catastrophic damage this time.

The second is our knowledge of whether climate change's effects will be benign to us and our planet's biosphere, or will cause catastrophic damage.

Seven years later, Gore won an Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary on climate change, and also the Nobel Peace Prize for his devotion to solving climate change and avoiding as much catastrophic damage as possible.

Do you believe that the risk of catastrophic damage from anthropogenic caused global warming justifies the decarbonization of the economy.

The policy side of the climate debate needed that visual to sell the idea of unprecedented, catastrophic damage and convince Joe of the necessity of Andy Rivkin's «Cap and Ka - Ching».