Sentences with phrase «larger area of damage»

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The fires also damaged the Silverado Resort in Napa and a Hilton hotel in Santa Rosa, the largest city in the fire area, with a population of about 175,000.

«The New Capacity Zone would cause quite a bit of damage to our local economy, to households and businesses in the area, with higher energy bills, on the order of up to 6 percent for our residential customers or higher and 10 percent or higher for our large industrial customers.»

The grid remains vulnerable to diverse threats that can potentially cause extensive damage and result in large - area, prolonged outages that could cost billions of dollars and cause loss of life, the report found.

The research group plans next to study other aspects of severe thunderstorms such as hail, which causes less intense damage but is important for business (especially insurance and reinsurance) because it affects larger areas and is responsible for substantial losses every year.

The government money will be allocated to two areas: rare or incurable diseases for which there is little incentive for private investment, such as spinal cord damage; and common chronic conditions, such as arthritis, for which the aim is to help South Korean companies to capture part of the large potential market for treatments.

The treatment not only led the spinal cord cells to produce and secrete ChABC in large quantities over areas spanning the injury epicenter, it helped to maintain the overall health of the damaged spinal cord and restored hind limb function in the animals within 12 weeks.

But corona - graphs, which are installed on satellites and ground - based telescopes, are not ideal; to protect other instruments from potential damage caused by stray sunlight, they obscure an area slightly larger than the solar disk, blotting out a bit of the corona.

Fertilizer runoff and fossil - fuel use lead to massive areas in the ocean with scant or no oxygen, killing large swaths of sea life and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

Also, the more experiences people have with tornadoes, and the more personalized those experiences, the more likely they are to believe their homes (versus the larger geographic area of their city / town) will be damaged by a tornado within the next 10 years.

The emergency treatment would be the first test of their gene therapy approach over such a large and severely damaged area.

It means we can now produce maps of where coral is likely to be for large areas of the deep - sea that we have not yet visited, and use them to identify high value ecological areas that might need protection from damaging activities.»

ter Steege: «Thus, if we can protect these areas from threats they face, such as fires, degradation, deforestation, large - scale damage, and mining, the Amazon could be a showcase of large - scale conservation worldwide.»

«The wide swath of ocean that is cooled by hurricanes is much larger in area than the narrow swath where damage occurs on reefs,» Manzello notes.

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

From this view, it's easy to see the appeal of fast - dating activities, where men and ladies can connect with a large damages area of potential lovers in one night, hence, not waste work.

Each year in the late dry season, hot bushfires sweep through a large proportion of this area causing significant damage.

But a large area in the middle where the cost of preventing it is unlike to be recouped in any damages awarded.

The plaintiffs ultimately used Smith's testimony to argue that the inspector had left large areas uninspected and had effectively «admitted negligence» with regards to the structural problems and the evidence of water intrusion and damage.

The damage done to the animal can range from mild swelling, to large areas of skin and muscle dying, to even the death of the animal.

The often out of sight areas around or under your sofa can also become a problem hotspot from unwanted chewing, The soft material stretched over the wooden frame at the base of the sofa is just at the right level to be of interest as your rabbit roams around what for them one of the largest obstacles in the room and as the frequently explore around and behind it its inevitable some chewing will occur which can cause a lot of damage very quickly.

Once activated in specific spots on the map known as Heat areas, players can lead the large group of soldiers on horseback or on foot, or have static archers rain hundreds of arrows from above, causing massive damage to a large group of enemy soldiers, as well as destroy barriers that can keep you from progressing forward.

This finished has Fett grapple an enemy to him, plant a bomb on them and then kick them away for large area of effect damage.

With some upgrades this can also be charged up to do more damage over a larger area at the cost of more special move charges.

In the larger city areas, the representation of damage from battle is well modeled and creates countless areas for infantry or mounted guns to hide.

Some of these areas are larger than others and if you don't land in one fret not as lots of mini structures can be found with a couple great items.These special items aside from guns include bandages for health or shield potions to give you an extra boost of damage that you can take before death.

I played a very aggressive play style and my general was capable of spending large amounts of resources to drop a laser ordinance for a massive area of effect damage.

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

The abandoned town of Anyox burned down in 1942 and started a forest fire that cleared out much of the damaged trees over a very large area.

RE # 84 - 86, as mentioned before while natural causes may go into creating the largest part of hurricane intensity, we have to figure GW's part as an add - on at the upper level — and it is that last bit of intensity that might do the most damage, more than the first incrememts (assuming the hurricane make landfall in a populated / built area).

But even if it isn't responsible for serious seismic disturbances, a large dam - damaging earthquake in the area could mean catastrophe for millions of people.

In many cases, it appears that possible negative impacts of climate change pose risks of higher total monetary damages in industrialised areas (i.e., currency valuations of property damages) but higher total human damages in less - developed areas (i.e., losses of life and dislocations of population)-- although such events as Hurricane Katrina show that there are exceptions (Section 7.4.2.5) for developed countries, and monetary damages in developing countries may represent a larger share of their GDP.

The number of insurance claims — including those for vehicle damage, personal injury, theft and vandalism — in large urban centers is a primary reason for the high premiums in major metropolitan areas.

First, a large percent of North Carolinians reside in rural areas; the more rural the area, the less likely a home will be damaged by other people (rural homes are also statistically cheaper to repair than urban homes, so when damage does occur, the insurance company doesn't have to pay out as much money).

Hazards like fires, flood, windstorm and hail are fairly common in the Austin area, and they can do large amounts of damage to your belongings.

The city has also made news recently for the largest flood in the area's history, which caused property damage to approximately 20 percent of the town.

You may remember having had the experience of leaving a parking lot area and seeing the following large red warning sign posted near the exit: Warning: Backing up will Result in Severe Tire Damage!