Sentences with phrase «made tsunami»

«Instead of a natural tsunami triggering reactor meltdowns, this «fix» induces a man - made tsunami inside the reactor building that leads to the same outcome,» Lochbaum argues.

We take for granted that a movie can show a tsunami, but when filmmakers come up with ways to make that tsunami particularly vivid and horrifying, that's something else.

Not exact matches

They found that dramatic gaffes made little difference to these voters, as the miscues were lost amid the tsunami of general campaign coverage.

As a result, if you hurry, you can jump ahead of them and deliver valuable and truly differentiated products and services to a marketplace that is ready, willing, and able to buy anything that makes economic sense — and that makes common sense out of the tsunami of meaningless data that they're swimming in right now.

In comparison, though, Uber's troubles today are more like a tsunami, which is likely to make it more difficult to attract a top name.

While it is still too early to make a full assessment of the economic effect of the south Asian tsunami, at this stage it seems that the overall effect on GDP will be modest in relation to the size of the region's economy.

Most, and by most I mean a far overwhelming number, of Christians were sickened by the earthquakes in Haiti and Bam, the tsunami's, and every other natural and man - made disaster.

* Humanitarian service may include emergency response to natural disasters, such as an earthquake or a tsunami, or man - made disasters, such as the effects of war and famine.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

I use to make fun of Ricky Martin, until I went to Thailand and saw the acres and acres of houses he built with his own money for those who lost homes due to the tsunami.

I'll be keeping this into brief... just got word of a tsunami possibly coming our way and I need to make sure all of my ducks are in a row.

Its a gud tin dat walcott made a visible impact wit such limited time... sumtin telz me dat dude is abt to hit epl like a tsunami this season wit no injuries though!

During the extended discussion at the SXSW «Digital Tsunami» panel (in which GM's Christopher Barger also discussed corporate public relations in a networked age), NPR's social media guru Andy Carvin mentioned that he didn't want the network's reporters to be on Twitter just because «the cool kids» in the journalistic set were doing it — he wanted them to use Twitter if and because it made them better reporters.

The Government has announced an increase in aid to Tsunami hit countries, making the UK the largest national relief donor in the world.

«You can roughly split us 50 - 50 between those who make the most of it and those who absolutely hate it,» says an SNP MP elected in last May's Nationalist tsunami when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 seats.

«I say only if a tsunami could make its way... up New York Harbor and the Hudson River, somehow avoid New York City, and drench our plant,» Jim Streets, director of communications at Entergy Nuclear Northeast, said.

In his nomination letter, Corden wrote that Zerbo responded to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia by making diplomatic arrangements to ensure that seismic data could be provided swiftly to tsunami warning networks.

A string of unprecedented natural disasters, including hurricanes like Katrina and tsunamis like that which devastated Japan, has made many people rethink the wisdom of moving to the coast

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

Real estate and land prices increased sharply, making homes in tsunami - safe locations unaffordable to poorer residents wanting to move there.

That enabled geologists to make before - and - after assessments of how the seafloor rearranged itself in the Sumatra - Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, which triggered the awful Indian Ocean tsunami.

The discovery was made in a sea cave on the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, just south of the city of Banda Aceh, which was devastated by the tsunami of December 2004.

Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.

That would make the storm — Tropical Cyclone Nargis — one of Myanmar's most deadly natural disasters and the second largest in the region after the tsunami of 2004, which took nearly 200,000 lives.

«Japan certainly issued their tsunami warnings and evacuations, but their infrastructure suffered terrible damage from the earthquake,» Weinstein says, making communications and transportation difficult.

Rossetto's research aims to understand how tsunamis behave as they sweep ashore and how to make coastal infrastructure more resistant to their devastating effects.

Substantial progress has been made in terms of controlling tsunami hazard in the «far field» (a tsunami that originates from a source greater than 1,000 kilometers, or 620 miles, away).

Fortunately, a tsunami never materialized, but a simulation by University of California at Santa Cruz geophysicist Steven Ward makes clear that the West Coast has reason for concern.

Yet some combination of factors made the Tohoku - Oki earthquake bigger and with a more deadly tsunami than scientists expected.

In his paper, Okal reflects on the progress made since the catastrophic event of 2004 in various aspects of tsunami science, warning and mitigation and more generally in tsunami resilience, i.e., the preventive adaptation of communities to this form of natural hazard.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The reactors must pass new stress tests as a condition of restarting and in some cases make heavy investments in additional tsunami barriers.

«Fortunately, these catastrophic earthquakes don't happen frequently, but we can input these site specific characteristics into computer models — such as those made possible with the CEES cluster — in the hopes of identifying acoustic signatures that indicates whether or not an earthquake has generated a large tsunami.»

Nonetheless, it is crucial to investigate the possible effects from such rare but plausible earthquake and tsunami scenarios so that a full hazard assessment can be made.

His work has involved man - made disasters like the genocide in Rwanda and the collapse of the World Trade Center, and natural disasters like the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Since surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, supermodel Petra Nemcova has made it her mission to help children affected by natural disasters with...

Most brands make waves at Fashion Week for their innovative designs — but one organization, FTL Moda, is creating tsunamis with its innovative model selection.

Most brands make waves at Fashion Week for their innovative designs — but one organization, FTL Moda, is creating tsunamis with its innovative model...

AWFJ Award for Humanitarian Activism Sandra Bullock (for tsunami relief) Elaine Hendrix (for Animal Rescue Corps and In Defense of Animals) Angelina Jokie (for UN work and making «In the Land of Blood and Honey» to raise awareness about genocide) Elizabeth Taylor (for her work with AIDS) Olivia Wilde (for relief work in Haiti)

The sound editors have done their jobs exceptionally well (I was fond of the chilling howl of the tsunami sirens), and the sound mixers have made good use of those efforts to create a massive soundscape — the effects are so precisely oriented that you feel you can perceive their distance as well as their vector as they emanate from deeper in the city.

The tsunami is made up of visual effects elements both good and bad, whilst the shark is successfully brought to life.

In the hands of Ridley Scott, the man responsible for one of the best sci - fi horror flicks made (Alien), there is a tsunami of interest.

The film is being helmed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, who previously made the disaster flick The Wave, a movie about people caught in a tsunami.

Nintendo is making more money then you ever believe but the only thing is why Sony and Nintendo is losing money because they can not cover the lost their companies suffered from tsunami in 2011.

After making a memorable debut with The Orphanage in 2007, The Impossible, about a family separated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, is an unexpected choice of follow up.

«In 21st century schools and in the age of BYOD, connectivity for students to a local, national, and global tsunami of information make it critical that awareness, knowledge, and digital stewardship are at the forefront of an educator's work.

But using the earthquake / tsunami metaphor to make your point about pay - for - performance, however true, isn't always the best choice when people's sensibilities are raw from recent tragedy.

by Anne R. Allen Good critique groups are the easiest (and cheapest) way for new writers to learn the nuts and bolts of the craft and keep those cringe - making first drafts from gumming up agents» and publishers» desks (or becoming part of Konrath's tsunami of crap.)

You have made a mistake (or maybe a lot of them)... screwed up... or you may feel clueless to the tsunami of items you need to deal with.