Sentences with phrase «damaging a number of»

I note that the amendment that bears the name of the right hon. Member for Blackburn [Jack Straw] contains a request that the cuts do not damage the number of police officers.

Tragically, the house has been damaged a number of times by severe floods from the nearby Fox River (since, although Mies designed the house with sufficient clearance for floods, urban and industrial development upriver in ensuing years caused the river to flood more extensively than Mies had anticipated — click here for some horrifying pictures of some recent flooding).

The brain can become damaged a number of different ways, but most commonly, this type of injury occurs because of a rapid acceleration or deceleration, blunt force trauma or penetration.

With so many underground utilities today, there is an exposure for striking and damaging any number of buried lines such as water, sewer, oil, gas, cable TV, fibre optics, electrical, phone lines, etc..

The resulting flash flood killed 20 campers in Albert Pike Recreation Park and damaged a number of homes and businesses along the Little Missouri and Caddo rivers.

Your property can be damaged a number of ways: A pipe can burst and cause flooding, a winter storm can damage the roof, and a criminal can break in.

Not exact matches

Despite its advantages in number of troops (many of them under - armed and malnourished) and artillery, the North has no real ability to fight and win a war against the South, though it could surely cause a lot of damage in a lost war.

Rebuilding or replacing large numbers of damaged transformers could take months or even years: Fixing just 17 of them after the 2013 attack in California cost roughly $ 100 million and took 27 days.

Last year, Poloz was guided by the numbers in front of him, not theoretical concerns about the potential damage of lower interest rates.

When shipping goods from A to B, any number of things can go wrong: cargo gets damaged, a congested port delays docking, a storm throws a vessel off course, pirates raid a ship.

But offsetting the damage to the entertainment industry is the growing number of people signing up for packages of TV channels delivered over the Internet by services like Google's (googl) YouTube TV, Dish Network's (dish) Sling TV and AT&T's DirecTV Now.

The numbers that critics use to paint a damaging picture of Silicon Valley need to be viewed in context.

Although the two most severely amnesic patients showed no benefit, the others tripled the number of words they could remember - from 14 percent to 49 percent, placing them almost within the range of healthy people with no neurological damage,» reports Robson.

A seemingly endless number of these «policy» questions will arise when you enter the apparel business, among them issues surrounding pricing, consignment, purchasing unsolicited products, credit, cash layaway, returns, special orders, damage, children in the store, credit cards, gift wrapping, gift registry and hours of operation.

The number of unpaid internships is a primary concern, as the potential economic damage is likely proportional to the number of positions.

The unanimous vote by the California Air Resources Board has the support of a number of top politicians in the state, including Gov. Jerry Brown and several mayors, all of whom have pledged to resist the President's potentially damaging environmental policies, the New York Times reports.

So much so that residents have started complaining about the number of tourists on the island's few roads, environmental damage and a lack of accommodation.

Juror number six was all over it, fully engaged, every word that came out of your expert's mouth in the calculations of damages, was nodding her head.

An increasing number of companies want to use drones for things like inspecting rooftops for storm damage.

But as Peter Eavis at the New York Times pointed out yesterday, the bank isn't disclosing a number everyone would like to know: the «overall size of the derivatives bets that have led to large losses and much reputational damage for the bank.»

But as Sears (whose sister chain Kmart has also closed enormous numbers of stores) exits many malls, it follows that traffic to such centers would slip and inflict collateral damage on competitors like Penney and Macy's.

The amount of damage and the number of casualties were not known early on Wednesday.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

The number of stocks making 52 - week lows on the NYSE has soared, reflecting substantial technical damage.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

These crises began in the emerging world and caused very substantial damage to the economies and financial systems of a large number of emerging market economies.

Given the scale and scope of damage, SBP will bring to bear a number of rebuilding methods including its proven effective AmeriCorps and volunteer labor based model.

The average number of autonomous miles between «bad experiences» — things like jerky motions or hard braking, which are more likely to cause discomfort than damage

An untold number of homes are irreparably damaged.

The average number of miles between «critical» interventions — when a driver has to avoid causing harm, such as hitting pedestrians or causing material property damage

More damaging though, is the number of webmasters who fall victim to some slick talking snake oil salesman.

With the declared number of compromised payment cards being in excess of five million, the current hacking attack is amongst the biggest and most damaging to ever hit retail companies.

Another chart from NOAA shows the that number of billion - dollar disasters in a given year is on the rise (bars), and 2017 reached an unprecedented peak in the cumulative total in damage (gray line):

«But we don't know what that number is yet, and there is for sure going to be a larger number once there is a greater understanding of the full scope of the damage.»

There is one number that JPMorgan Chase apparently doesn't want outsiders to know: the overall size of the derivatives bets that have led to large losses and much reputational damage for the bank.

There are definitely a large number of non-bank lenders out there who are willing to lend to people with damaged credit.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

«This coupled with our increasing control of the middle mile and last mile of transportation reduces the number of touch points in transportation, thereby improving the speed of delivery and reducing risk of damage.»

Initial assessments indicate that the number of damaged or destroyed buildings is between 17,000 and 20,000, which housed 54,000 people — about 80 per cent of the total population of the island.

«Sadly the island is so badly damaged that there is no ability to communicate — no way to know the number of people who may have been killed in the storm itself with houses coming down, debris,» Stephen E. Flynn, the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

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It means we'll diversify by buying a number of different stocks to limit the damage any one stock can do to your portfolio.

«Any failure in our ability to appropriately and timely process and address a large number of identity - related events taking place at the same time could result in a loss of members, harm to our reputation, and other damage to our business.»

Leaving aside the damage inflicted on the countries subjected to «democratization» — a large number of direct and indirect victims, the replacement of traditional social structures by chaos — we can see the problems the globalist utopia creates in the West.

The explosion damaged the church and a number of nearby houses, police said.

Indeed, I had a number of citations in my library about the extreme damage caused to the children of second marriages (blended families, as I recall the term).

The real point is that the moving of these holydays of obligation to the following Sunday has had possibly unintended but nevertheless damaging consequences, which outweigh any conceivable gain (I accept that for a very small number of people it does mean that they will be able to celebrate these feasts — in however reduced a way — when previously they couldn't).

The bipartisan ethics report contained this damaging statement:» (O) ver a number of years and in a number of situations, Mr. Gingrich showed a disregard and lack of respect for the standards of conduct that applied to his activities.»

We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest number of female fotiece abortion in India and probably in the rest of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the highest rate alcoholism in England (highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.