Sentences with phrase «events like global»

That's why participation in events like our Global Symposium in Barcelona and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Immersion Conference in Kuala Lumpur is so important.»

As Marc points out, more and more, business interruption is less likely to arise from direct, physical damage, but rather from events like global terrorism or cybercrimes, which have the potential to cause real business interruption without physically touching business facilities.

... there is no statistical probability involved with one - of - a-kind events like global warming!

However, since their methodology suppresses most of the high frequency variability, one needs to be cautious when making comparisons between their reconstruction and relatively rapid events like the global warming of the last century.

PIGSquad hosts game jams throughout the year, from big global events like Global Game Jam to local events like our Summer Slow Jams.

That's right, every pet business operator, owner, manager and employee can legitimately claim an income tax deduction for a sizable portion of the expenses of attending events like Global Pet Expo, provided certain rules are followed.

Events like a global financial crisis are the true test of not just your people but also your organization's risk structure.

Let's instead presume that an event like the Global Financial Crisis might never happen again in our lifetime and focus on what can happen in a more normal time.

How does an event like Global Pet Expo help to foster the spirit of cooperation among the members of these groups?

Not exact matches

I first joined the company as the head of employee services, initially charged with running our global facilities, planning internal events like happy hours and offsites, driving our monthly all hands meeting and owning our annual company conference MeetUp.

Like most great inventions, the airplane has created a butterfly effect that has impacted many of the most historic events in the last century — everything from warfare, to geographic distribution of populations, to commerce and trade and the global exchange of information.

Global network organization Impact Hub is putting on its weekly HubMasters event, allowing people to present their pitch to a group of like - minded strangers and receive instant feedback on delivery, as well as ways to improve communication skills.

Splashy global sporting events seemed like a chance to show off Brazil's go - go economy when they were granted years ago.

Some examples are enhancing retail experiences in - store and online, converting Converse license markets to direct distribution and demand creation investments around global sporting events like the Olympics, where we launched product innovations and connect our brands to consumers.

Global events like the Olympic games and government elections also help to drive user growth.

Book Description: «In his hugely attended Talk Like TED events, bestselling author and communications expert Carmine Gallo found that audiences wanted to discover the keys to telling powerful stories, inspiring stories that could galvanize movements and actuate global change.

Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

In his hugely attended Talk Like TED events, bestselling author and communications guru Carmine Gallo found, again and again, that audiences wanted to discover the keys to telling powerful stories; inspiring stories that could galvanize movements and actuate global change.

supernatural events are NOT exclusive to HUGE events... like global flood, etc etc.... and just cause there are a FEW errors (supposedly) in the regional stuff, that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.thats not how history works..

In light of tragic national events, I am afraid that our answers to what heaven is like will leave out a common, global response: practices of repentance and practical change that access uninhibited presence with God.

Tactical battle - type games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), League of Legends (LoL) and Call of Duty (CoD) each host million dollar events.

Most of all, I love seeing our books brought to life in our Oxford and Concord, MA Studios — what we think of as «hubs» in our global community, where we have events like storytelling, arts and crafts activities, African drumming, puppet shows, yoga and even a family café serving healthy and organically produced food... all part of the Barefoot lifestyle and all about connecting families and nurturing creativity, imagination and diversity.

Equally worrying was the President's failure to touch on Ghana's position on major Geo - political happenings like the situation in the US regarding immigration bans, recent developments in some theatres of conflict around the world, the Israeli Palestinian issue, terrorism in the West African sub-region and a myriad of global events on which Ghana's voice must be heard.

Yet more than the transformation of the international order following the Cold War, or the role of television in the emergence of global forms of mobilization, it is this fundamentally Christian narrative that continues to provide the defenders of free expression with a template by which to understand events like the Rushdie Affair.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

These models might be able to peer up to 50 years ahead and «show regional events, like a heat wave in India, rather than just global trends, like higher temperatures,» says Kate Evans, a scientist at the lab.

How could global warming have produced an off - the - charts event like the «summer in March»?

The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.

Ten months later, though, the Fukushima disaster looks less like a global nuclear wake - up call and more like a watershed event that accelerated changes already under way.

Events like this occurred in most years once global temperatures reached 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial times,» said lead author Dr Andrew King.

And while the blob was a one - time event that was not due to global warming, it provides a window into what climate change might look like.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Global seismicity has not been going up in the long term; high - profile events like Haiti and Japan make it look as if it is.

The second phase, in 1998, saw many of the remaining tree - like corals being wiped out during a massive bleaching event, probably driven by global warming.

The body of several thousand atmospheric scientists, climatologists, glaciologists, oceanographers and other scientists, hailing from 154 countries, are more certain than ever that humanity is to blame for global warming, which may be linked to odd events like trees blossoming in the Luxembourg Garden here in the middle of winter.

Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.

«Estuaries like Chesapeake Bay could contribute more to global warming than once thought: Study explores role of methane release during dead zone and storm events.»

Ultimately, we'd like to be able to reproduce the global signatures of these abrupt climate events with numerical models of the climate system, and investigate the physics that drive such events.»

With rising global temperatures, the 2014 National Climate Assessment predicts that many communities will see more frequent extreme precipitation events like the one that hit Baton Rouge, La., last year.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

Such analyses, while useful, only paint a broad picture of snowfall's response to global warming, and may miss specific events, like a large blizzard that may occur over a day or two.

«Recent events have taught the global community that promising candidate countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases, like MERS, need to be advanced early in order to prevent or respond to the potential of a growing epidemic.»

Volcanic eruptions and impacts from celestial bodies, like asteroids, have a near instantaneous effect, but very few of these one - time events are of sufficient size to impact the global climate for more than a few years.

Looking into the future, we found that, if nothing is done to slow climate change, by the time global warming reaches 2 ºC events like this winter would become common at the North Pole, happening every few years.

microFUN is a global network of telescopes around the world dedicated to measuring rapidly - evolving microlensing events, and together they are capable of following an event like this with nearly 24 - hours of continuous coverage.

And it's this interconnectedness that makes Manchester — and other tragic global events — feel like they're happening right next door, she says.

The event is followed with church - like devotion by a flock of international industry impresarios, all eager to enjoy Pitti's stellar curation of directional, global fashion talent.

It felt a little like Fashion's Night Out, the global shopping - cum - party event first initiated by American Vogue that drew hundreds of thousands of consumers all over the world into stores to celebrate fashion and shopping at a time when the global economy was in the doldrums (though, of course, most of the attendees didn't actually shop, coming instead for the entertainment value).