Sentences with phrase «catastrophic failures of the past»

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Even if Lakewood was indeed flooded this past weekend, Osteen's reluctance to open Lakewood's doors, or at least to be vocal in organizing aid, was at best a catastrophic failure of optics: operating at analog speed in a digital age.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

Lately, I've been contemplating making the switch over to an Apple computer since my Vista machine appears to be on the verge of catastrophic failure and just having being frustrated with the whole Microsoft domain over the past few revisions of the Windows operating system.

Yet, more and more research studies based on past events acknowledge dykes heightening as measures of last resort or even examples of maladaptation (Hallegatte 2009; Zurich 2014; Wenger 2015), as they give a misleading impression of complete safety which is at odds with the catastrophic consequences in case of failure during flood events (e.g., Di Baldassarre et al. 2015).