Sentences with phrase «first significant attack»

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As I've noted before, since the start of 2013 — when the «fiscal cliff» calamity was averted at the very last minute with a deal struck between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY)-- investors have been impervious to the sorts of anxiety attacks that caused significant corrections during the first four years of the bull market.

The most significant difference between the academy's execution of the 3 -4-3 shape compared to the first team's is the impact made by the wing - backs in attacking situations.

And in those dust samples the EPA did collect and analyze in the first week after the attacks, 25 percent showed asbestos levels above the 1 percent threshold that indicates «significant risk,» according to the EPA.

However, liberally prescribing aspirin increases the bleeding risk for a significant number of people who were never going to have a heart attack in the first place.

In a paper published in the online edition of Nature Genetics, a deCODE - led team of scientists describes the identification of the first gene found to confer significant risk of the common form of heart attack.

Advances in military and weapons technology in the four decades since the previous significant war meant that, for the first time, soldiers in the Great War were pitted against machine guns, fragmentation shells and long - range artillery, flame throwers and toxic gas attacks.

Starting small, and beginning by working with indie developers as a marketing consultant at first, Surprise Attack quickly became a significant player in the Australian independent development scene and worked with more than 100 indie studios over the next couple of years, learning a lot about indie games, indie developers and how to work with them.

«We are pleased to see significant health benefits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which would reduce the burden of air pollution in America, prevent up to 4,000 premature deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks in the first year they are in place, and prevent up to 6,600 premature deaths and 150,000 asthma attacks in 2030.

This would have been a significant first step, yet the agreement instantly came under attack from the fossil - fuel lobby in the United States and Australia, and the recalcitrant parties managed to insert so many loopholes in the protocol that, after several international meetings culminating in a conference in Marrakech in 2001, it would, if implemented, result in minimal reductions in the rich countries» greenhouse gas emissions.