Sentences with phrase «for preventing catastrophe»

The most he had to say on the subject was «we should go in with our eyes open and do our best,» hardly a fail - safe recipe for preventing catastrophe.

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To help prevent future catastrophes, worker advocates have recently promoted an international accord that sets mandatory safety standards for garment factories.

Unfortunately, the next financial catastrophe that is going hit the system, and for which the Fed is helpless to prevent, will make everyone yearn for just the tech bubble or «big short» bubble collapses.

He has thus pleaded with the AMA to allow his artifacts to stand until the commemoration is over in order for Ghanaians to be empowered to prevent such a catastrophe from recurring.

While careful not to assign blame, the report has a series of recommendations to prevent similar catastrophes in the future, including screening U.N. personnel from cholera - endemic areas for the presence of Vibrio cholerae before they leave home and giving them a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

The members of the small heat shock protein family effectively share the work — with some specialization for preventing different catastrophe scenarios.

A Romulan named Nero (Eric Bana) is pissed off at the original Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy, whose screen time is much longer than I was led to believe) for failing to prevent a natural catastrophe that destroys Romulus.

Norman's plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent.

The government's actions to avoid financial collapse last fall — as distasteful and unfair as some undoubtedly were — were unfortunately necessary to prevent a global economic catastrophe that could have rivaled the Great Depression in length and severity, with profound consequences for our economy and society.

For example, it's very unlikely that an asteroid will strike the Earth at any given moment, but the consequences are so dire that we should be prepared to prevent such a catastrophe.

This would be a virtue were it not for one small detail — such targets would also fail to prevent a climate catastrophe.

I propose for Earthday that fellow doubt merchants tweet and make their facebook status's «I believe global warming will prevent catastrophe and benefit humanity.»

He quotes from Amory Lovins» eulogy for Donella Meadows, a Dartmouth - based environmental expert and writer: «when asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time — starting now.»

The roots of environmentalism go back to the eighteenth century in the form of the overpopulation myth of Malthusianism, which was all about limiting the human population to prevent a predicted Malthusian Catastrophe, i.e. mass starvation, and for genetic purity, especially among supposedly genetically inferior groups e.g.... Continue reading Anti-humanism, Environmentalism and the Overpopulation Myth

If you want to help combat this crisis and prevent the catastrophes that could be around the corner, there's hardly a better way than biking for transportation.

Which is why the only way to meaningfully prevent another major oil catastrophe is to curb the demand for oil itself on a large scale, with alternative technologies and prohibitive policies — we can regulate all we want, but someone's always going take the risk to make a profit.

Helping apply for and attain the correct insurance policy limits medical expenses to reasonable levels and prevents financial catastrophe in the event of a major medical event.

You have to prepare for those eventualities when something does go wrong and make sure that the recovery from problems is as unpainful as possible; and do a lot things to prevent total catastrophe, where it's stuff that maybe you can roll back from or only hurts a small subset of users because things are ultimately going to go wrong, there are bugs in all software,» said McCaleb.