Sentences with phrase «cause particular events»

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

«The media are often focused on whether global warming caused a particular event,» said Diffenbaugh, who is a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

It is complicated, and the link between global warming and natural disasters often feels uncertain to people, since scientists can't say global warming caused this particular event (sigh...) A sense of issue fatigue can take hold, born of the difficulty of making rapid progress.

Not exact matches

In the end, we do not really know how the flood occurred, but it seems from God's promise in Genesis 8:21 that whatever the causes of the flood, that particular series of events is no longer possible.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

History is not different: we see the close connection of event with event, but as to why a particular «cause» issues in a particular «effect» we do not know.

«The IP2 containment liner, in particular, has been subjected to a variety of unusual degradation events over more than four decades, including buckling in 1968, deformations caused by a jet of steam and hot water in 1973, and corrosion due to a flooding event in 1980,» state officials wrote in a petition for the hearing.

The tremors described in this particular study are called short duration events, and are definitely not caused by the same mechanisms as proper earthquakes.

«It is important to remember that hormonal substitution, when taken at the beginning of menopause and for a few years only, does not cause any particular risk of cardiovascular events,» stresses Jacques Philippe.

And while some events, like the U.S. winter storms and the record high Antarctic sea ice extent, could be pinned to a particular cause, that cause could not be linked to climate change.

In reviewing your life, recollect all the times the times you were certain a particular event was really good, causing you to invest all of your energy and emotion into it.

Consequently, some events seem confusing — such as why one particular machine disables Xavier but not Jean Grey and what causes Wolverine's amnesia.

I needed to examine the particular events and root causes that culminated in flying furniture and slamming doors.

The most common admission essay topics are: events and achievements which contributed to the self - development, situations in which you assumed significant responsibility, your strengths and weaknesses, working with other people, career aspirations, challenges you faced, academic interests, role model, past experiences, causes of particular university or college choice, and personal information.

In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particular.

The Arab Spring surprised many people, including some who had expertise, and while attribution of such an event to a particular cause is probably impossible, there are people (as written up in The Economist, for example) who link at least some of the causation to food prices, and there in turn people who link at least some of the food - price swings to climate change.

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

Further, several factors usually need to combine to produce an extreme event, so linking a particular extreme event to a single, specific cause is problematic.

While it's impossible to say that any particular event was «caused by global warming,» says Shepherd, climate change loads the deck, making extreme events such as last year's Superstorm Sandy more likely.

«As our modelling capability improves and our understanding of the dynamical causes of extreme events develops, the potential for making holistic event attribution statements that consider all facets of the event — and not just one particular aspect — will likewise improve.»

In the ice core records there is no event that caused non-temperature rise related CO2 increases, this is why that particular record does not contain an analogue to today's warming.

In particular, proactive planning reduces the need for reactive response to the damage caused by extreme events.

It is virtually impossible to attribute any one event in a chaotic system to any particular cause.

While it can not be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.

Conversely, it is sometimes stated that it is impossible to attribute any individual weather or climate - related event to a particular cause.

David — Trenberth states that global warming contributes to extreme weather events, without claiming that particular events are caused by global warming.

Without specifying the region and the particular impacts, the approach I am taking is to look at regional paleo data for such catastrophic events / periods in the past, and understanding what caused them and whether they could happen in the 21st century.

The notion of «extraneous cause» covers various cases, including in particular force majeure or fortuitous events but also an action by a third party or by the party to which the penalty must be paid.

Under Maine law, repetitive stress or cumulative trauma injuries are recognized in the state's workers» compensation system to the same extent as specific injury caused by a particular event.

As Dean Prosser puts it,» [a] n act or omission is not regarded as a cause of an event if the particular event would have occurred without it.»

For example, psychiatrists testify to the existence of various mental states, doctors testify as to the cause of an injury or death, accident reconstructionists testify to the location or cause of an accident, economists or rehabilitation specialists testify to future employment prospects and future care costs, fire marshals testify about the cause of a fire, professionals from a wide variety of fields testify as to the operative standard of care in their profession or the cause of a particular event.

The company becomes willing to cover expenses incurred towards «those items or substances of particular use which in the event of loss are either totally consumed or rendered unfit for further consumption» arising out of damage to the vehicle insured and / or to its accessories caused by any risks as covered under the policy.

• Handle fund raising activities by contacting sponsors and donors • Manage direct fundraising requests and handle initial pitches • Follow up on prospective donors through email and telephone • Draw up proposals and letters for acquiring funding • Provide support to the marketing and sales department with their awareness efforts • Present project information to donor heads in order to gain funds • Handle volunteers for fundraising projects • Manage and execute special programs and events in order to attract donors to a particular cause

experiential avoidance — the phenomenon that occurs when a person is unwilling to remain in contact with particular private experiences and takes steps to alter the form or frequency of these events and the contexts that occasion them, even when doing so causes psychological harm

In short, factors that lead to foreclosure, such as business failures, plant shut - downs, area unemployment, or the over-all ill health of the nation's economy, should be more worrisome to homeowners in general, than an actual nearby foreclosure that may have been caused by a sudden and unexpected event in the life of one particular homeowner.