Sentences with phrase «earth movements such»

Most homeowner policies typically exclude several types of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, other forms of earth movements such as sink holes and landslides, floods, septic system / sump pump overflows and backup, hurricanes and nuclear incidents.

Not exact matches

The church that refuses to listen to such movements of God upon the face of the earth is the church that also fails to hear the whisperings of God to their own hearts and minds.

There is as yet no power on earth that can bring such financial movements effectively under control and public accountability.

This is why movements such as Faith must continue to make their own contribution to the world of ideas: in the hope of building a better civilisation here on earth so that we may be worthy of our true home, the kingdom of heaven.

Such information also provides fundamental information about what drives movement in space throughout the universe, far beyond the near - Earth space we can observe more easily.

Birds stuck on landmasses that had drifted into isolation due to the long - term movement of Earth's tectonic plates, such as Australia and New Zealand, were consigned to evolve in isolation.

Many of the techniques now used to detect exoplanets — such as observations of their gravitational effect on the movements of their parent stars, or mini-eclipses that occur regularly as they pass in front of the stars as seen from Earth — aren't sensitive enough to detect the presence of an exomoon.

Using super-distant, super-bright radio sources, such as quasars, as a wallpaper of stable reference points, this system of radio telescopes helped scientists measure the tiny shifts in the Earth's crust caused by continental drift and clock the movements of the atmosphere and oceans.

From the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Earthforce focuses on the forces of Earth that cause movement, such as earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.

Frost believes the trend can be reversed, noting such influences as Richard Louv's 2005 best - selling book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature - Deficit Disorder, and former U.S. vice president Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, as well as the growth of the green - schoolyard movement.

Dismemberment by way of plasma cutter, perhaps Dead Space's defining feature, was one such mechanic that joined the movement system to set itself apart from its Earth - based counterpart.

According to ancient philosopher Laozi, Qi embraces «all manifestations of energy, from the most material aspects of energy (such as the earth beneath your feet, the flesh and the blood) to the most immaterial aspects (light, movement, heat, thought, and emotion)».

The researchers had to estimate such variables as the chemical composition of the atmosphere, the amount of sunlight reflected by Earth's surface back into the atmosphere, and the movement of heat and salinity in the oceans at a time when all the continents were consolidated into the giant land mass known as Pangaea.

Leif — about the sun being in freefall: Wouldn't it be logical that (1) Earth is in freefall yet it has tides, so it follows that changing gravitational forces from planetary movements could (logically) have an effect on the sun's internals, and (2) because Earth and the sun are at different locations within the solar system they receive different such forces, thus the sun's influence on Earth could (logically) be affected.

It might help you if you had a few concepds in mind too when considering this subject, like «space» is the big energy «sink» with old sol (and the internal heat generating processes (including nuclear) of the earth) as sources... any mechanism that results in a delay of energy leaving earth, such as a «bounce - back» or a re-rad of energy (like back radiation) certainly is going to increase the «energy flux» in the system, and this in any way you want to frame the argument translates to a «higher» energy state, and a higher so - called temperature» (movement in matter, velocity of air molecules or oscillations in certain «resonant molecules) as well.

Today at Earth Island Journal (cross-posted at Grist), four activists representing groups from across the US and Canada, argue that the climate movement needs to move beyond its preoccupation with oil pipeline projects, such as Keystone XL, and instead challenge the expansion of fossil fuel projects wherever they appear.

The five renewable sources used most often are: biomass (such as wood and biogas), the movement of water, geothermal (heat from within the earth), wind, and solar.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

Such descriptions do not describe the ocean which has the vast majority of energy storage and movement on Earth.

In some coastal areas of the ocean (and large lakes such as the North American Great Lakes), the combination of persistent winds, Earth's rotation (the Coriolis effect), and restrictions on lateral movements of water caused by shorelines and shallow bottoms induces upward and downward water movements.

Dear K.C., Home insurance policies exclude any damage from earth movement, such as — but not limited to — earthquakes.

There may be other exclusions spelled out in your policy such as neglect, intentional loss, «earth movement (landslide)», general power failure and even damage caused by war.

The damage can be attributed to earth movement, such as a sinkhole or landslide, even if the earth movement could be traced to flooding.

Those homeowner's policies do not cover water damage (from floods or sewer backups, for example) or damages from earth movement (such as sinkholes or earthquakes).