Sentences with phrase «faced widespread power»
Long Island and Westchester County, also, faced widespread power outages.
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The devolved government faces enormous challenges — Brexit, widespread disillusionment with the parties on offer and a power - sharing structure that arguably inhibits progress.
The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.
No country with nuclear power has a viable underground repository for waste, and proposed sites in France face public opposition, despite more widespread support for nuclear power.
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.
If Sandy hits with full force, the Mid-Atlantic could face rainfall totals between 3 and 7 inches in Washington, D.C., historic flooding along the coasts, and widespread power outages resulting from wind gusts that could exceed 60 mph.
Dr. Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division warned Britain they faced ``... widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once - in - a-generation «space storm»».
Despite the challenges facing the Mexican power sector, especially its inability to access natural gas from the U.S. and the widespread theft of electricity, international firms are very optimistic and believe these problems to be some of the «vast and varied» opportunities they believe they can avail.
The technology that powers these experiences is truly incredible, but Microsoft is already facing an uphill climb against Apple's ARKit, which is already seeing widespread developer adoption in the AR space, and existing VR ecosystems in the gaming space.