Sentences with phrase «for hundreds of thousands of»

The Committee secured an estimated $ 7.8 billion settlement for hundreds of thousands of people who suffered because of the oil spill.

Some of the court's reasoning showed that software patent injunctions are still available in the United States, but the Versata ruling is considerably less useful to Apple because, among other things, the court believed that Versata's relevant patent was central to an add - on product that SAP sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars per installation.

The plan includes a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, easier access to affordable child care, and free prescription drugs for everyone under 25 through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation.»

Thompsons Solicitors has more experience of winning personal injury claims than any other UK law firm, having successfully fought for hundreds of thousands of people since our foundation in 1921.

The lawyers can go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and often they settle for just tens of thousands of dollars.

Represented and counseled commercial landlord in successful litigation and resolution of dispute over exercise of option for an easement to a large bloc of parking spaces for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Successfully resolved and settled suit for banking client involving the deposit and wire transfer of counterfeit cashier's check for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Parties with minor injuries can no longer attempt to sue for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for pain and suffering without proving a serious injury.

Insurance is very important — if you don't have insurance and you cause an accident, you could be held personally liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages to others, and if you are injured in an accident, there may be no way to recover compensation for your economic and non-economic losses.

For hundreds of thousands of people, bankruptcy was the right option for taking control of their debt, and getting a fresh financial start.

During the 1980s, we were responsible for pursuing court cases that led to the National Deafness Scheme and compensation for hundreds of thousands of workers.

These collisions account for hundreds of thousands of injuries every year.

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.

That ice core analysis (as shown by Al Gore in his movie) shows that for hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 and temperatures have moved together, demonstrating that CO2 is the main thermostat of the Earth

Evidence was shown during the trial (Fig. 1) that the Earth's temperature had tracked closely the presence of the accused for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fossil fuels literally keep the lights on in these parts, put bread on the table for hundreds of thousands of us, and provide critical government revenue that we have come to depend on for hospitals, schools, and other social services.

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»

As early as 1975, economist William Nordhaus remarked that global temperatures had not been more than two or three degrees higher for hundreds of thousands of years.

The problem for the hundreds of thousands of conservationists in the U.S., he said, is that the system of addressing the problems is completely broken.

-- has been repeatedly knocked out for hundreds of thousands of households, businesses and other institutions for days at a time by violent storms and blizzards in just the last few years.

On a historical scale, global climate has been exquisitely stable for thousands of years — that's probably WHY agriculture finally succeeded, after intelligent primates had already been around for hundreds of thousands of years and several interglacials.

Linking all of this with concerns over the lack of well - paid jobs for hundreds of thousands of Andean women - mothers, who live in misery and yet they have a rich textile knowledge that the world is yet to discover; they spin with a spindle called Pushka.

Unlike other terrestrial and marine sources, which gradually release methane as it forms, the shelf is emitting methane that has accumulated in seabed deposits for hundreds of thousands of years and until now was restricted by permafrost, says Shakhova.

The carrots in the measure were a 1 percent cut in the state's regressive sales tax, near elimination of business taxes for manufacturing to protect jobs, and tax rebates of up to $ 1,500 for hundreds of thousands of low - income households.

The end of the Eocene, about 33 million years ago, featured CO2 higher than 1,000 ppm for hundreds of thousands of years, yet the reefs kept building.

Changes to one reading at a station like Reykjavik could change the GISS extrapolated temperatures for hundreds of thousands of square miles.

This IUCN report notes: «Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds of thousands of years.»

The fact is that the climate has been swinging around VIOLENTLY (orders of magnitude more than the worse IPPCC bullshit) without any help from us for hundreds of thousands of years — and we have not switched off, and can not control, that natural process.

We bookkeep fossil fuel and deforestation carbon separately, because the larger fossil fuel term is known more accurately and this carbon stays in the climate system for hundreds of thousands of years.

If we fail we are almost certain to suffer the consequences of ecological and social crisis for geological scales potential lasting for hundreds of thousands of years as did the global warming of the Eocene.

And, for hundreds of thousands of people, the only source of drinking water is from trucked - in shipments.

For the hundreds of thousands of people who took part in the march in DC and actions nationwide, I think this year's Peoples Climate March provided a much needed dose of inspiration and hope.

The heme in the Impossible Burger is identical to the heme humans have been consuming for hundreds of thousands of years in meat and other foods.

Specifically, how much will temperatures rise if the concentration of the main greenhouse gas of concern, carbon dioxide, doubles from the level of 280 parts per million that prevailed as the industrial revolution got into gear in the 19th century and was not exceeded for hundreds of thousands of years prior to that.

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

For hundreds of thousands of years preceding the industrial revolution, the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere didn't exceed 280 parts per million.

«This is an incredible gift to the city from Barney Ebsworth and Echo will become a beacon for the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the park each year.»

For hundreds of thousands of tennis fans descending upon Indian Wells every March for the BNP Paribas Open, the fair will offer an exciting opportunity to experience art at its finest in a sleek, gallery - style exhibition space.

Bradford, a Los Angeles art star whose paintings sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is currently erecting a plywood Noah's ark in a lot on Caffin Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward.

His works sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars and have appeared in some of the country's most prestigious art shows — most recently, the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh and the 2006 Whitney Biennial in New York.

«Even Chase - Riboud is now selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars,» says Rosenfeld.

Doeringer is putting conceptual art truisms to the test: The most obvious is the age - old conceptual saw that the idea or gesture, and not the object itself, is the art (tell that to the auction houses that do well selling Ruscha bookworks or Ray photographs for hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

In the United States, where video pieces by such renowned artists as Bruce Nauman and William Kentridge have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, the form remains the red - headed stepchild of the art world, at least commercially.

Despite this self - imposed handicap, by 1985 Andy Warhol was describing Fischl in his diary as «the hot new top artist»; he was the subject of a long Vanity Fair profile entitled «Bad Boy of Brilliance» which compared him favourably to celebrity artist peers such as Julian Schnabel and Jean - Michel Basquiat; and his paintings were suddenly selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This social phenomenon rattled the old guard as young men of three decades, or in Jean - Michel Basquiat's case two, were selling fresh paint for hundreds of thousands of dollars via the powerful Mary Boone gallery and others.

The NEA funds support organizations that employ artists and cultural workers to provide programs for hundreds of thousands of people around the country.

Twelve years after the art world woke up to her talents (her pieces now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars), Herrera's current popularity seems to have inspired a renewed focus and ambition.

His work sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The art industry calls those outsiders the «lower art market» because they don't sell art for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Without massive investment, it is difficult to prepare for hundreds of thousands of players hitting an online multiplayer service almost simultaneously.