Sentences with phrase «not catastrophe»

Not every catastrophe, such as a single car accident, automatically puts a driver in the high risk category, although it can cause your insurance premium to increase.

Like «not apocalyptic,» «not a catastrophe» is a low bar, indeed.

For the Greenlander, climate disruption might well be a godsend, not a catastrophe.

But it's not a catastrophe for my insurance company, it's just another standard homeowner claim to be processed.

DennisC: A full reply would violate blog policy, but just note that the CO2 adsorption bands argument only gets you 1 to 1.3 deg C warming, not catastrophe.

An expensive mitigation strategy, but not a catastrophe.

Dave Roberts over in Gristmill / Huffington Post world has once again taken me to task for writing about people who have either made a career of saying global warming is not a catastrophe (Bjorn Lomborg) or have newly embraced the issue after a career on the right (Newt Gingrich).

The death rates were bad, but not the catastrophe they were made out to be.

Your point in # 155 is a good one, too; we had a disaster (though not a catastrophe) back in 2011, when a tree — toppled by the 60 - mph winds of a derecho — dealt our shack a $ 100,000 blow.

A ruin is not a catastrophe.

It's not all catastrophe, although.

A small percentage of cavaliers will also develop orthopedic problems such as hip dysplasia, but since they are a small dog, it is not the catastrophe that it would be in a larger breed.

«Memoirs of a Geisha,» however, found the director cramped by conflicting aspirations of art - film stateliness and the old - Hollywood pizzazz of his previous effort — if not the catastrophe that many critics enjoyed declaring it, it was nonetheless a misfire that awkwardly showed up his limitations as a storyteller.

This way, residents can enjoy underground living whether or not catastrophe strikes.

The suffering and rejection of Jesus on the cross is not a catastrophe, but a gateway to the ultimate manifestation of the Kingdom of God on earth.

I present them for your consideration: The shutdown itself is not a catastrophe, though it....

Finance Minister François Baroin of France said Friday that the loss of his country's pristine AAA rating, cut a notch to AA +, was «not good news» but was «not a catastrophe.»

For that reason, being forced to build new tools is a setback but not a catastrophe.

I'll help you carefully maximize what you can get from Google, but also show you how to develop multiple traffic streams so the next Google update isn't a catastrophe.

Hit and Run isn't a catastrophe, but it leaves loose ends and a more adventurous map by the side of the winding road.

Suburbicon, George Clooney's adaptation of a decades - old, unused Coen Brothers screenplay, isn't a catastrophe, but it's far from a triumph either.

First things last and last things first: Suburbicon, George Clooney's adaptation of a decades - old, unused Coen Brothers screenplay, isn't a catastrophe, but it's far from a triumph either.

If you save only 15 % and it turns out that doesn't completely replace your income, it's not like you're out on the street; you might have to retire a few years later, or downsize your house, or something, but perhaps that isn't a catastrophe.

333 Septic Matthew: «Civilization has survived many catastrophes already» But not catastrophes that killed 99.99 % of the citizens.

Admittedly, this isn't a catastrophe, but it's damned inconvenient.

Not exact matches

If you find yourself in the midst of a catastrophe or can not find your way out of a problem, I have three tips for controlling the damage.

Rapid technological advances will destroy some jobs, but it doesn't need to be a catastrophe if we take steps to manage the transition

It wouldn't cause catastrophe, but by lowering revenues or widening the already yawning deficits, it would train the spotlight on the potentially disastrous outlook.

Each catastrophe has unique characteristics and catastrophes are not predictable as to timing or amount.

«It's not the run - of - the - mill loss you should be thinking about, but the home run, out - of - the - park catastrophe,» says David Young, a former insurance broker and risk manager now advising at the Small Business Development Center in Seattle.

I'm not predicting an economic catastrophe in Canada.

In other words, 90 percent of start - ups fail because the founders get bored, discouraged, or something else, and they move on to other things, not because of some catastrophe.

The meeting typically occurs at the height of the Atlantic hurricane season, but not since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have catastrophes weighed so heavily.

«Strategies to manage risk are not guarantees against catastrophes,» said Cortazzo.

But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.

The insurance industry now uses sophisticated catastrophe modeling for risk assessment when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, but that wasn't the case until 11 insurance companies went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

And so you might see recessions more often, but they won't be economic catastrophes.

The purpose of the disaster film is not to make small conflicts bigger but to make big ones smaller - to reduce unthinkable catastrophes to a human scale.

Whenever there's a storm, forest fire or other catastrophe that threatens people's homes, people in the path are asked to remember one thing: homes can be rebuilt, material items can be replaced, but lives can not.

«Not because simply Haiti needs it, but we feel that it would be in the interest of both countries as Haiti is putting in motion its development plan based on the catastrophe of the Earthquake in 2010 and a set of other issues that came up along the way that has slowed down our reconstruction process.»

It could have been handled differently, should have been handled differently, but it's not an utter catastrophe.»

But it's not just the financial opportunity that has the likes of Gates and Branson so excited: Meat is an ongoing environmental and public - health catastrophe.

The proposed 2,673 - kilometre line from Hardisty, Alta., to coastal Texas not only lays bare the causal relationship between American demand and what many consider an environmental catastrophe in Canada.

President Barack Obama insists this isn't just another temporary respite before Washington drives the country, and the rest of the world, to the edge of financial catastrophe once again.

Successful entrepreneurs may not dwell on those downtimes, but they willingly accept them as well as the lessons that come from self - induced catastrophes.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

«Absent an international economic catastrophe or a major war or another game - changing disaster, the money will not soon be coming back to America.»

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.