Sentences with phrase «in volatile regions»

Many people in volatile regions are suffering unspeakable horrors that fall outside the reach of media cameras.

This is disappointing news: here at Treehugger, we've repeatedly driven the point home that the president has almost no control over the price of gas in the short - term — a cocktail of global demand, oil speculation, and political instability in volatile regions determines the price of gas more than anything else.

Obtaining timely intelligence on hostages has always been difficult, especially in volatile regions where the United States has limited access and where militants have well - established operations.

As the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan seems headed from bad to worse, Greg Mortenson, co-author of the blockbuster Three Cups of Tea (140 - plus weeks and counting on the New York Times bestseller list), and his Central Asia Institute are building more schools in that volatile region than ever before.

When you are a tiny country with almost no oil, located in a volatile region, and your gasoline consistently sells for over $ 6 a gallon, electric cars are an especially attractive option.

Not exact matches

A U.S. withdrawal from the Iran agreement would raise tensions in an already volatile region, possibly prompting an arms race involving Saudi Arabia.

By investing in a specific geographic region, a regional fund's returns and share price may be more volatile than those of a less conc entrated portfolio.

Compared to other renewable resources, like wind, PV is much less volatile — even in less sun - abundant regions.

Foreign investments can be riskier and more volatile than U.S. investments due to the adverse effects of currency exchange rates, differences in market structure and liquidity, as well as political and economic developments in foreign countries and regions (e.g., «Brexit»).

The outlook for investment banking in the volatile Middle East region is surprisingly upbeat.

Authorities in Pakistan are reporting a second deadly mosque attack Friday in the country's volatile northwestern region, a strike that killed four people and injured 18 others.

Perhaps most dramatically, the Bush administration, in its effort to define a more truly «realistic» approach to world politics, was willing to challenge the seemingly settled consensus that the Middle East was a region so politically volatile, economically important, and culturally retrograde that it could only be «managed,» never transformed.

23) Shakhtar Donetsk — Ukrainian team Shakhtar are regular participants in the knockout stages of the competition, but the volatile political situation in the region has left a number of the club's players unsettled in Donetsk.

I was reading an article on a developing situation in one of the most volatile regions in the world and the strained ties between US and Pakistan.

Both of them have shown incredible leadership in historically volatile regions of the world where men have traditionally dominated the political sphere.

«We took it upon ourselves to go to Kano, a volatile area to address the northern youths, and warned that nobody should attack any Igbo in the region; more so, there shouldn't be any reprisal attack.

«For the Niger Delta, from my experience, extending the Operation Crocodile Smile II to the Niger Delta will only aggravate the volatile situation in the region.»

State and federal inspectors have completed a second round of safety checks of train tracks and oil tanker cars in an effort to prevent derailments and spills of volatile crude from North Dakota's Bakken region.

Personnel drawn from the two security agencies in the region are to be deployed to volatile zones in...

Security and science in this increasingly volatile, fragile area are of paramount importance, not only to practice stewardship of the region itself, but also to maintain peaceful relationships and to practice diplomatic measures that could benefit the globe.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

An abundance of minerals containing ammonia on a relatively rocky world like Ceres is surprising, De Sanctis says, because the volatile compound of nitrogen and hydrogen can not persist long in the relatively warm and sunny regions of the inner solar system where Ceres now resides.

Ultimately, decision makers may nix such drastic change in the already politically volatile region, but that sure is a lot of energy.

Just such a weapon killed two coalition members on Monday in Iraq's volatile southern region, according to NATO.

In as electorally volatile a region as Sicily, few ministers can resist doing something, usually spectacular and expensive.

According to the geochemist, comets originate in the cool outer regions of the solar system where volatile water and carbon compounds condensed into ice.

The smell component of flavor is composed of volatile compounds detected by receptors in the upper regions of the nose.

On March 21, 2012, the MESSENGER team also revealed new supporting evidence that many permanently shadowed craters in Mercury's polar regions may harbor water ice insulated with a thin layer of soil or dust, or some other radar - reflecting volatile substance such as sulfur.

The Great Lakes region, meanwhile, is the most volatile in the country and Illinois topped the list... dating back to 1907, today's UPI is a credible source for the...

While its track record is impressive, Dorfman says the strategy can be very volatile from year - to - year, and can become very concentrated in a particular sector or region.

Foreign investments can be riskier and more volatile than U.S. investments due to the adverse effects of currency exchange rates, differences in market structure and liquidity, as well as political and economic developments in foreign countries and regions (e.g., «Brexit»).

If the Fund does so, there is a greater risk that economic, political, social and environmental conditions in that particular country or geographic region may have a significant impact on the Fund's performance and that the Fund's performance will be more volatile than the performance of more geographically diversified funds.

The storm flooded Houston and much of the region and was one of several hurricanes that impacted the United States during a volatile 2017 season, including Hurricane Irma in Florida and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

In 2035, Tanoa continues to enjoy a prolonged period of apparent peace and prosperity, but the volatile geopolitical situation on the world's stage threatens to destabilize the region, and plunge it into darkness once more.

Studying Chinese at university gave me the opportunity to move and settle in the most geographically volatile region in the world, the Asian ring of fire, and pursue my passion of documenting nature's tantrums on video.

They warn of what 11 retired generals and admirals wrote about in 2007 — climate change becoming a «force multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.»

Which is to say any scientist who studies this who recognizes that our geologically radical alteration of the atmosphere naturally would present a threat of very simple — if to us quite major — accompanying, if lagging and inherently non linear and somewhat chaotic and volatile, shifts in the general global climate, and various major regions then again within it, as almost all, who actually professionally study this issue and professionally work in this field do, is immediately dismissed.

In the proposals, ABEC stated «Nevada (DOC) is perhaps one of the most volatile states in the west regions for ABEC's industry,» so its PR work in the state includes issues management, as well as presidential candidate outreach and identifying «cities and communities critical to helping shape policy at the grassroots level.&raquIn the proposals, ABEC stated «Nevada (DOC) is perhaps one of the most volatile states in the west regions for ABEC's industry,» so its PR work in the state includes issues management, as well as presidential candidate outreach and identifying «cities and communities critical to helping shape policy at the grassroots level.&raquin the west regions for ABEC's industry,» so its PR work in the state includes issues management, as well as presidential candidate outreach and identifying «cities and communities critical to helping shape policy at the grassroots level.&raquin the state includes issues management, as well as presidential candidate outreach and identifying «cities and communities critical to helping shape policy at the grassroots level.»

~ Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

A Kurdish autonomous region existed in Iraq, but relations between the two main Kurdish political factions were extremely volatile and often descended into armed conflict.

Over the past 48 hours, after demonstrating a highly volatile week, the cryptocurrency market has remained stable in the $ 350 billion region, as major cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have not recorded major gains or losses.

Aiming to be a bigger fintech hub in the region, the city - state has not made any moves to regulate virtual currencies, but has issued a warning to the public about investing in such volatile assets.

App store prices will go up in seven countries around the world, as tech giant Apple needs to account for volatile exchange rate changes in the affected regions.

It is more likely that the market will remain highly volatile in the $ 450 billion region both in the upside and downside before it leads a strong rally to its previous levels in January.

In the event of a significant deterioration in the security environment, you may have to temporarily move employees from a particularly volatile region into a capital city or neighbouring region, returning only when the situation stabiliseIn the event of a significant deterioration in the security environment, you may have to temporarily move employees from a particularly volatile region into a capital city or neighbouring region, returning only when the situation stabilisein the security environment, you may have to temporarily move employees from a particularly volatile region into a capital city or neighbouring region, returning only when the situation stabilises.