Sentences with phrase «for complete collapse»

Heavy timber resists fire very well - when heavy timber burns, a layer of char is created, which helps to maintain the strength and structural integrity of the wood inside, reducing the potential for complete collapse.

When we talk about «proof» we're not talking about smoke and mirrors «modelling» based on long - term average wind farm output — which ignores the extra gas and coal being burnt (and wasted) in order to balance the grid to account for wild fluctuations in wind power output (see our post here); and to maintain additional «spinning reserve» (see our post here) to account for complete collapses in wind power output — as seen in this post.

Not exact matches

Frankel noted the basic features of the oil industry made for continuous crises with hectic prosperity followed all too swiftly by complete collapse.

Likewise, investors might have believed that the extraordinarily elevated market valuations of 1929 and 2000 were «justified» by the recent economic prosperity, but that did nothing to prevent the market collapses that completed those cycles, with over a decade of negative total returns for the S&P 500 in both cases.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

The fecklessness of this, especially coming from the overweight and unattractive Connolly, Malcolm took to be characteristic of a civilization in complete collapse, which he supposed his to be, however eagerly he kept on the lookout for signs to the contrary.

That didn't mean there wasn't a chance for a disappointing contract, but it did mean that a complete and utter collapse into the bowels of the nightmare void was nearly impossible.

Complete collapse and Wenger's one dimensional football exposed for the sham it is.

There are four games left for Arsenal to tackle in 2014, all of them in the Premier League, and barring a complete collapse and loss of form, the Gunners will get at least the five points that will make Arsenal the best EPL team of the calendar year, as a report in The Mirror shows that we have won 72 league points since January 1st with Man City in second with 65.

Of course, last season confounded everyone — I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I expected anything other than relegation for Leicester, or anticipated a complete Mourinho / Chelsea collapse, but even in a bonkers season some things were as predictable as ever.

This eco-friendly lunch container features a space - saving design that collapses to half its size for convenient storage when not in use and comes complete with a spork that stows away in the container.

The road back for the Lib Dems is very hard because their collapse has been so complete — in many places the party collapsed from first or second place to fourth or lower.

Reagan and SDI was not remotely responsible for the collapse, I think it was only invented by the pentagon to justify burning money for senseless projects (Read: SDI was complete and utter bullshit.

WILLIAMSBURG — The $ 160 million dollar deal finalized Wednesday for the last piece of land needed to complete the 27 - acre Bushwick Inlet Park nearly collapsed at the last minute over a misunderstanding with the Brooklyn Borough President's office and a million dollar shortfall, officials familiar with negotiations said.

Lord Ashcroft's previous polling in LD v Lab seats essentially showed a complete Lib Dem collapse, raising the possibility of an almost complete wipeout for Liberal Democrat MPs where Labour was the main opponent.

This represents the complete collapse of politics based on a different and better form of society for which we campaign, often against prevailing prejudice.

To stave off a complete collapse of gulf fisheries and shrimp populations, Scavia finds, the dead zone must shrink drastically, to 2,000 square miles or less — and for that to happen, agricultural nitrogen runoff will have to decrease by at least 40 percent.

And since the white - tailed ptarmigan is an «indicator species» for high - elevation ecosystems — the canary in the alpine — its path toward demise could signal the complete collapse of these ecosystems in the not - so - distant future.

are there any forms of relief for Wegener's Syndrome / Granulomatosis affecting my friend's nasal (complete bridge collapse and on prednisone with no relief in sight)?

Students complete a noting sheet before beginning their supported research for an air balloon debate on the subject, The human race faces a tragic self made Malthusian collapse.

There is, obviously, something to be said for being able to walk around with the complete works of Tolstoy on your person at all times without fear of collapsed vertebrae or public ridicule.

The discount window, while providing last resort funding for situations that have some prospect of containment, is not intended to be the final funding source for financial institutions that have absolutely no hope of survival due to a complete collapse in confidence.

Few investors will ever forget the terror of the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, when the global financial system was on the verge of complete collapse and many people were convinced we were headed for another depression.

As I've emphasized nearly every week since mid-2014 (when we completed the awkward transition from our pre-2009 methods to our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles — see A Better Lesson Than «This Time is Different» and Voting Machine, Weighing Machine for the full narrative), the central lesson of market cycles across history, and even the most recent full cycle since 2007, is that the behavior of market internals is central to distinguishing an overvalued market that collapses from an overvalued market that continues to advance.

Friends recounted how Kusama, with amazing stamina and concentration would work on her intricate canvases in one complete sitting, painting obsessively for up to 50 or 60 hours until the painting was finished and she collapsed from exhaustion.

Other featured artists include Anita Arliss, whose mixed - media canvases are included in the permanent art installations at Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Bethany Collins, who recently completed a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Justin Rabideau, who salvages wood from new construction sites and houses on the verge of collapse to create scaled pieces — from very tiny wall pieces to very large installations and large - scale sculptures — for his brightly - colored «Shim» series.

After peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of large - scale migration to the suburbs, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for cheaper places, an increase in crime and social disorder, and an upturn in its welfare burden — all of which led to a fiscal crisis that pushed the city on the verge of complete collapse.

For the U.S. and the world, Katrina was a surprise as the world saw the failure of complete evacuation, the collapse of the levees, the inadequate rescue operations, the subsequent outmigration, and the plight of those remaining in the city, with the burden falling heaviest on the African - American, poor, aged, and infirm members of the population.

With respect to the complete collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation will you kindly clearify the following for me.

Updating the Soon (2005) correlations by correcting for an obsolete and almost certainly incorrect solar reconstruction (replacing with the SORCE reconstruction) and extending the temperature data to the present, shows an almost complete collapse of the initially impressive correlation.

Although this question of the number of stable states of the system is important for a complete understanding of the climate system, it is important to emphasize that regardless of this stability question, the CMIP5 models also show no evidence of an abrupt collapse for the 21st century.

Maybe the very best thing for the environment would be a complete collapse and restructuring of the way our government handles our tax

iTunes helped save albums and singles from complete collapse, but many people will tell you that 99 cents for a single, as affordable as it sounds, is still overpriced.

If the foundation depth is too short, for instance, the building would collapse before it was even completed, so you can be reasonably sure that part was done properly if the building is standing at all.

However, a wave of panic sets in when those who are new to the markets rush to sell off their crypto for fears of a complete collapse.

Due to the collapse of the financial and real estate markets in 2008, the Taxpayers were not able to obtain a loan to complete their purchase and so eventually sold the property for a loss in 2009 without ever building the planned vacation home.

If a seller instructs the listing agent not to show the property after a transaction is firm, then the agent must obey these instructions, but the agent should advise the seller that firm sales can collapse before completion for a variety of reasons (death of the buyer or one of the buyers, loss of job, financial disaster, unforeseen problems with the property itself, etc.), and the transaction is not a certainty until the transfer of title is complete and the money is in the seller's hands.

Before presenting a back - up offer to a seller, the licensee acting for the second buyer should advise the buyer as to the buyer's obligations to complete the transaction should the back - up offer be accepted and the original contract collapse.