Sentences with phrase «like landslides»

Understanding materials failure on a fundamental level could pave the way for designing more shatter - resistant glasses or predicting geological phenomena like landslides.

What looked like a landslide in April started to look shaky through May and has now evaporated in June.

Like a landslide, the more repeats that are added, the greater the original problem becomes.

It had been ok before then, went downhill like a landslide from that moment on.

The stranger gave a satisfied grunt and bore down on him like a landslide.

With the Studio Museum show, that thought is becoming even more present in my mind — and suddenly, and like a landslide, having to think about it.

His work hits you like a landslide.

Not exact matches

In short, even if he gets it legalized overnight there will be a landslide of new and recently legalized pot products the likes of which have not been seen since the repeal of prohibition and its affect on the liquor industry.

Stelmach ended up being a fairly decent premier, who I believe history will treat kindly, but landslide victories like these can be a doubled - edged sword.

It is still standing, indeed, because it was not exposed to the destructive pressure which overwhelmed the rest, but, like the rest, it is built upon rubble, and the next landslide will carry it away [pp. 1, 3].

A church should work «like a miner under a landslide» to eliminate the social causes of mental illness and to create a growth - enhancing society in which positive mental health will bloom like a rose.

It is still standing, indeed, because it was not exposed to the destructive pressures which overwhelmed the rest, but, like the rest, it built upon rubble, and the next landslide will very likely carry it away.»

So don't even bother voting — just pray like there's no tomorrow, and Romney will win with a landslide.

Since God truly works in mysterious ways — don't even bother voting — just pray like there's no tomorrow, and Romney will win with a landslide.

Votes for a pie - like moist muffin won by a landslide, but because a good number of you voted for the dry version, I also started hunting for an alternative.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

If the Conservatives look like they are going to do well then it remains a plausible line for us to say that we're the only party that can protect Scotland from the effects of a Tory landslide.»

While the 2001 seats tally was much the same as the 1997 landslide, in key areas like Stoke the working class voter had already started to slip away.

Without a serious, well - funded, conservative candidate, Bishop is just going to win in a landslide like he did in the debacles of previous years.

It's not even like a normal landslide, where the other parties still get to keep seats.

Like May managed to do in Copeland, the Conservatives gained a seat in a by - election as a governing party en route to Thatcher's landslide win in 1983.

Two weeks ago, it looked like Eliot Spitzer was on his way to a landslide win in the comptroller's race, with Quinnipiac and Marist both showing him ahead of Scott Stringer by exactly nineteen points.

Like 1945, 1997 was a landslide that had been nearly a generation in the making.

Labour need an 11.3 % swing, which might be achievable if there were a landslide like that in 1997.

Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, says «Nineteen votes has never felt like a bigger landslide.»

In that regard, I like to congratulate our great party, the All Progressives Congress, for the landslide victory at the Saturday election in all the 57 councils.

Submarine landslides, like the one at Storegga, seem to have occurred frequently as the last ice sheets receded, as well as at the end of previous glaciations.

It made a significant difference to our understanding of the potential damage to Seattle from seismically triggered landslides,» said Allstadt, who would like to use the new framework to run many more scenarios to prepare for future earthquakes in Seattle.

Scientists have discovered that the last subduction zone earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest was in January 1700, when — like now — soils probably would have been soggy from winter rains and most vulnerable to landslides.

The landslide's two rock avalanches were not earthquakes but, like mine collapses and nuclear explosions, they were recorded on seismographs and had magnitudes that were calculated on three different scales:

While the Markagunt landslide was a rare event, it shows the magnitude of what could happen in modern volcanic fields like the Cascades.

A rotational landslide moves along a rupture surface that is curved or concave, like the inside of a spoon.

Meanwhile, disastrous events like floods, volcanos, landslides and earthquakes — the four events posing the highest risks in the provinces — led to «no large, consistent or significant effects on migration.»

Landslides typically occur when an outside force — like rainfall or an earthquake — destabilizes the layers of rock and soil that make up a mountainside.

Landslides occur when the shaking is strong enough to move a slope downhill and liquefaction is a process where strong shaking can reduce the strength of saturated and loose soils and turn them into a substance more jelly - like than solid.

Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

Could we see another landslide like this in 2016?

Like other phenomena, such as landslides or earthquakes, extremes in the carbon cycle depict a pronounced power - law behavior.

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In a blue state like MA, Democratic unity contributed greatly to the No campaign's landslide victory.

[82] In a blue state like MA, Democratic unity contributed greatly to the No campaign's landslide victory.

Things like flooding, damage from water seepage, damage from earthquake, and damage from snow or landslides are all excluded.

Tom's Guide: It may seem like the PS4 has already won the latest console war by a landslide, with over 50 million players and a bigger library of must - have exclusives.

Devastating landslides like those that swept through several communities in southern Taiwan over the weekend are inevitable.

I believe that reaction takes much longer than bubbles require to reach the surface; the methane released in these bubble sites or in rapid events like underwater landslides) either dissolves in water or reaches the atmosphere in a matter of minutes, according to what was posted here earlier.

The ONLY problem i see with replacing the petroleum industry, is that the Rockefellers (war, bank, oil, food, medicine, media monopolies), the DuPonts (plastic & explosives all made from petroleum), Hearst (paper made from trees using petroleum - based CHEMICALS), and ig farben chemical companies like monsanto (petroleum - based fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, agent orange)- would all lose their fortunes in a landslide.