Sentences with phrase «collapsing infrastructure»

5) Irma and Maria collapsed the infrastructure, electricity, and communications lines of the British Virgin Islands: The British Virgin Islands were beaten by both Hurricanes Irma and Maria (though Maria caused less damage than some feared).

Still, the collapsed infrastructure and knocked out electricity and communications lines were enough to inspire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson to call for a Marshall Plan to help rebuild the British territory.

This idea has the potential, already half - realised, Lent says, to produce a split humanity, «one species, genetically and technologically enhanced, exploring entirely new ways of being human; the other species, genetically akin to us, barely surviving within its collapsed infrastructure.»

Actual mechanics of the war are left unseen — there are rumblings of terrorists, contamination, and overrun borders — and the conflict is largely (and wisely) kept to Daisy's close reaction to Britain's collapsing infrastructure.

In Paris Under Water, Jackson explores how communities came together and, against all odds, saved Paris in the midst of collapsing infrastructure, looters and failed electricity and public transportation.

The publishing industry as you know it is an artefact for of the pre-digital era, there is absolutely zero chance of it continuing in its established form in the face of digital technology, and yes of course writers trying to shelter within the collapsing infrastructure of that industry are going to have an increasingly hard time.

whilst being trapped beneath a city with a collapsing infrastructure.

Inserted into the modern ruins of damaged homes, collapsed infrastructure, and piles of detritus is a free - form narrative — part science fiction, part video game, part real - life experiences like stop - and - frisk interrogations — enacted by members of the self - taught Brooklynbased dance troupe Ringmaster Crew.