Sentences with phrase «caused widespread disruption»

Political instability in some overseas destinations has also added an undesirable dimension to some holidays abroad, while climatological factors such as flooding and heavy snowfall have caused widespread disruption that has had a big impact on overseas travel.

After bravely enduring back - to - back storms that caused widespread disruption of life on the island, the people of St. Martin have once again weathered mother nature's batterings and, showing their signature resilience and spirit, continue to work to bring the island back to its usual splendor for those discerning travelers who know the secret pleasures of life on this Caribbean jewel.

After bravely enduring back - to - back - to - back tropical storms last year that caused widespread disruption of life on the island, the people of St. Martin have once again weathered mother nature's battering and, showing their signature resilience and spirit, have brought the island back to its usual splendor for those discerning travelers who know the secret pleasures of life on this Caribbean gem.

Union leaders said they were «overwhelmed» by support after a strike by public sector workers caused widespread disruption.

Pinkerton President Jack Zahran said terrorist attacks and natural disasters were becoming more frequent, potentially causing widespread disruption to supply chains.

Cuts to fiber optic cables caused widespread disruptions to telephone, television and Internet service across the Northeast for several hours yesterday, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications reported.

Strike action was solid across 17 London bus operators, as Unite members mounted picket lines across the capital bringing buses to a standstill and causing widespread disruption.

If the state decides to build a tunnel or hybrid tunnel - boulevard, traffic would still have to be diverted onto Interstate 481 during a decade of construction, Stirpe said, causing widespread disruption to the community.

Takeuchi and her colleagues hypothesize that TCA - like contaminants are probably absorbed into the fat layers that make up the cell membrane to cause widespread disruption of the channels.

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

D - Link IP cameras were a major contributor to the immense IoT denial of service attacks that occurred last year causing widespread disruption on the internet, including taking down Domain Name System services provider DYN.

Just last week, Kaspersky Labs found that June's suspected ransomware attack focused on oil, gas and manufacturing targets, likely to cause widespread disruption.

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However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

Such an earthquake will cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay).

It is possible that climate change will cause major and widespread disruptions to key planetary life - support services.

Here we demonstrate that loss of the orthologue kdm2aa in zebrafish causes widespread transcriptional disruption and leads to spontaneous melanomas at a high frequency.

He said allowing certain schools to be skipped instead «caused widespread teacher displacement and the severe disruption of the education program» on a much larger scale.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools amid widespread power outages, flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent years.

In the US, this year's severe drought has raised food prices and in India the disruption to the monsoon has caused widespread damage to farmers.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.