Sentences with phrase «girding against»

It also describes a glaring problem, and opportunity, in how federal agencies are locked in to static standards for girding against weather - related hazards even as climate forecasts foresee more rain coming in heavy downpours:

But will this shift in perceptions and evidence affect prospects for meaningful action on greenhouse gases — which of course is a much tougher challenge than the near - term imperative of girding against future damage from such storms?

The unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows what can happen when planners don't adequately consider scenarios in girding against «low probability, high consequence» risks.

But he stressed that, in the end, the 1992 convention and its successors are about limiting and girding against human - driven global warming.

At its launch, The Old Republic was my first and biggest disappointment, and remains the game I think back on when girding myself against the hype of an upcoming title.

Former adversaries are banding together, girding against upheaval in a rapidly changing health care environment.

This helps to gird against potential fraud as well as money mishaps.

Two ways to gird against participant panic: educate participants and build the right bond options into the lineup.

The fact that the tunnels filled showed that we in New york City, New York State and this country didn't make it a high priority to gird ourselves against a superstorm.

The fact that the tunnels filled showed that we in New York City, New York State and this country didn't make it a high priority to gird ourselves against a superstorm.

Not exact matches

But they were getting ready to play a good game against a respected opponent, and the Vikings were girding themselves for Armageddon.

Axe installs rigorous compliance measures to gird the company against the US Attorney's office investigation.

-- Gene Wolfe Gird yourselves for a bloody campaign against the mist - shrouded menaces that lurk behind the Courtyard gate.

Updated, Dec. 27, 5:13 p.m. In the decade since a great sub-sea earthquake off Sumatra swept the Indian Ocean and killed more than 230,000 people, Costas Synolakis, the director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, has been one of my go - to guides to efforts to gird societies against such hazards.

(This is a very different task than girding communities against climate - related risks.)