Sentences with phrase «large scale disasters»

This may take time during large scale disasters such as floods.

Unfortunately, we now have another example of the large scale disasters oil pipelines create.

Instead, Henry Miller's article lists large scale disasters causing localised crop failures, deadly strains of wheat pathogen and... Continue reading →

«It is a large scale disaster which needs to be approached as such.

Even a short - term evacuation like a gas leak could turn into a large scale disaster that keeps you from returning home for days.

In response to these newly nicknamed «Bio-Terrorists», the government created the Department of Unified Protection to deal with the threat and to eliminate and potential large scale disaster seen in the events of the last game.

What of many larger scale disasters at one time?

When there has been a large scale disaster event there is usually also a dedicated ICA Catastrophe Hotline [phone].

If you do not know who your insurer is ring the ICA 1300 728 228 or the ICA Catastrophe Hotline [phone] in the event of a large scale disaster

When there has been a large scale disaster event there is usually also a dedicated Catastrophe Hotline [phone].

For example, whenever there is a large scale disaster, hundreds of full - time members of the company's catastrophe response team are ready to join with the Allstate agents and help.

Insurance companies are required to keep this large cash reserve base in case death claim payouts are much higher than expected over a given time period, due to a large scale disaster or poor underwriting for instance.

Not exact matches

The P&G mobile unit, powered by Matthew 25: Ministries, distributes P&G products free of charge directly to residents in the communities which have been affected by large scale natural disasters.»

While conservation officers do a great job of environmental stewardship, they have little to no experience investigating the geotechnical complexities of large scale mining disasters or the actions of government's mines safety staff and procedures.

My mind immediately jumped to the disgusting proselytizing that so often occurs right after a natural disaster or human tragedy — whether in a family, or on a larger scale.

Suffering, especially on a large scale, is always shocking, of course, but natural disasters have happened before and individual tragedies can affect families and just as deeply.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

SB Nation's Department of Epidemiology has some advice for preventing disaster on a larger scale.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

«In spite of Nigeria's technological limitations and the paucity of funds to handle or manage large scale and complex emergencies, the APC administration will leave no stone unturned in offering succour to victims of natural disasters across the country,» he said.

For instance, they suggest that organizations must plan to make personnel available for handling social media throughout and subsequent to any large - scale disaster.

On the largest scale, critics say, rampant optimism might be a recipe for global disaster.

The range of possible actions to hurricanes is limited to evacuation, large - scale engineering projects such as floodgates and dams, loss prevention (insurance), and the self - organization of society in recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of a hurricane disaster.

Major disasters have potentially large - scale and long - term consequences for people, environments, and economies.

In response, the team of researchers have called on policymakers worldwide to strictly regulate any large scale unilateral geoengineering programmes in the future to prevent inducing natural disasters in different parts of the world.

«I think this is definitely a large - scale disaster, which we've dealt with before.

But soon, they turned their minds to large - scale disasters.

Researchers in this group think that these functions will dramatically increase construction equipment's capacity to deal with large - scale disasters and accidents and believe it is possible that the replacement of conventional construction equipment with this robot will drastically change civil engineering and construction methods.

For this reason, nuclear reactors are designed with passive and active safeguards, and separate dedicated systems are used to identify and to neutralise possible faults which could lead to large - scale disasters.

Nuclear disasters have potentially large - scale and long - term consequences for people, environments, and economies around the globe.

«Furthermore, large - scale energy storage systems are strongly needed in China [as backup during] frequent natural disasters» such as the recent Sichuan earthquake.

This «could result in a burst dam, contaminated water, a derailed train, a collapsed bridge, energy black - outs or other large - scale human disasters», Webster claimed.

For example, the model can easily be extended to consider the levels of risk of large - scale industrial or transport disasters, or of injury while using a controlled pedestrian crossing.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Spurred by a series of nuclear - power mishaps, starting with 2011's disaster at Fukushima, large - scale solar and wind plants now dot the country.

For the second time in under a year, a large - scale energy disaster is unfolding before our eyes.

But while most research on impending environmental disaster relied on computer models, Biosphere 2 represented a fascinating alternative mode in which large - scale analog experiments employed real organisms, soil, seawater, and air.

This week in Cancun, a researcher from Yale - National University of Singapore (NUS) College in Singapore is presenting a comparison between large - scale earthquakes and tsunamis in different parts of the world, illustrating how nearly identical natural disasters can play out very differently depending on where they strike.

«The world is seeing an increase in large - scale natural disasters,» she said.

Ever since the reactor at Chernobyl exploded in 1986 spewing radioactivity over more than 20 countries, Europeans have lived in fear of another large - scale nuclear disaster.

it becomes evident that Emmerich is as ill - adept at painting personal moments as he is as a maestro at crafting large - scale disaster images.

Emmerich has had several attempts at world - ending destruction, and although each of the aforementioned films was impressive in its time, 2012 sets a new standard for large - scale disaster porn.

Very rarely does anyone seek a cause beyond preventing the apocalypse, placing them within a narrative where they are rewarded not for being proactive, but rather reacting to the latest large - scale disaster.

San Andreas doesn't have much interest in the lives lost during its sequence of catastrophes, but it does dole out plenty of the large - scale spectacle that matters in disaster films of this type.

Ganz and Mandel don't have to deal with anything as sobering as a large - scale human disaster at Fenway Park; in the Americanized Fever Pitch the key historical incident is Boston's surprise victory in last year's World Series, which reversed an 86 - year curse.

Filmed (with great political difficulty and necessitating much censorship) in China, it was an ambitious, large - scale production overseen by Raffaella de Laurentiis and directed by the Canadian Daryl Duke; but when it was finally released the film was met with almost universal critical disdain and proved to be a box office disaster.

Congress has periodically provided supplemental appropriations to address specific large - scale disasters and the growing ER backlog.

In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end - of - life care and reveals just how ill - prepared we are as Americans for the impact of large - scale disasters - and how we can do better.

Melissa is contract staff for the Humane Society of the United States» Animal Rescue Team establishing emergency animal sheltering during natural disasters and large - scale hoarding or neglect criminal cases.

Ehren Melius oversees all aspects of emergency sheltering for the ASPCA's Field Investigations and Response Team during large - scale cruelty seizures, natural disasters and other sheltering operations.