Sentences with phrase «of catastrophe at»

I couldn't fathom the thought of not going to the memorial service, but I also couldn't see how to take the week needed to go and not have some sort of catastrophe at work.

------------------------ It's worse because the is little evidence of catastrophe at all.

The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

Not exact matches

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

«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.

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

Whereas the rest of the world treated financial crises as one - off catastrophes, Argentines looked at them like seasonal floods and prepared accordingly.

As the Sony hack continues to prove, with cyber crime, more than money is at stake — besides the PR catastrophe, the threat to some jobs and leaks of unreleased films and other IP, employees and their families have had their medical data exposed and are receiving personal threats.

I shutter at the mention of «catastrophe insurance» and wonder how much worse things can get for the world economy.

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

With this alternating pattern, you can keep one of the drives at work, or in a fireproof safe, a bank deposit box, a friend's house, or other off - site location to protect your data from a home - office catastrophe.

The insurer told the market at the time significant weather catastrophes including Californian wildfires and December storms in Australia during the fourth quarter, coupled with some adverse development of Hurricane Maria, added around $ US130 million to the net cost of catastrophes.

«We simply can't allow a catastrophe of nature to become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren,» he said at the time.

Her resulting book, «The Newcomers,» is a delicate and heartbreaking mystery story, as Thorpe slowly uncovers the secret catastrophes in the lives of young immigrants at South High School in Denver.

«This tit - for - tat will mean eventual catastrophe for everyone on earth, unless we finally get some sanity in US leadership, to pull back from the brink,» said Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University.

every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally over-bearing.

«Catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide expects industry insured losses of $ 20 - $ 65 [billion]... based on the track as of Friday evening, and our sense is losses could be at the lower end of the range as the storm weakened faster than expected.»

There are many biblical predictions («prophecies» in bible terms) that have been fulfilled, predictions that were made hundreds of years before the event, like the fall of some empires / nations (ancient and current), a natural and supernatural sign at a particular place, a catastrophe, etc..

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half «dead, and then, in terror, shudders with dread at the very mention of the name of the «sea»; who swears he'll never sail again, who raves he'll stay home, even on the calmest days, but then, in time, forgets his fearful ways, and seeks, again, his fortune above the waves; I, too, have barely escaped the storms that revolve around you, my love, traveling far away, vowing to avoid another catastrophe, but I can't; the thought of you breaks my resolve, and so, I return to where, on that fateful day, Inearly drowned in your tempestuous sea.

It is tragic that this has occurred; indeed, the fall into incommunicability is the primal catastrophe at the source of history.

My priest friend attacked him publicly for preaching such religious «opium» and stated that the catastrophe was not an accident at all, much less the will of God, but rather the result of an exploitative system that puts profits ahead of human lives and well - being.

I agree that there needs to be some separation of church and state, but look at the name above, and remember names like Hitler Stalin and Mao all glorified in the name of atheism and science and equality, and they were a catastrophe!

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

At the other extreme there are those who fear that catastrophe may overtake redemption, that the state itself, the very «beginning of the growth» of that redemption, has been placed in jeopardy.

Now, it would be a disturbing trend worthy of the world's condemnation if good Muslims were 30 % more lethal than others, but at 100 times that correlation, not condemning these animals is a moral catastrophe!!

On it stood a church with the haunting name of «The Consolation of All Sorrows,» something badly needed at that time of nervous shortage, abrupt catastrophe, and the ever - present fear of a midnight putsch with tanks grinding along the streets.

Though many were either illiterate or not very religious, many others could write and were indeed devout» men such as Colonel Patrick Guiney of Massachusetts, who lost his eye and his health at Chancellorville and wrote to his wife, «God rules in Peace and War» in the circumstances and the catastrophe.»

I would be much happier thinking that all of my hard work, dedication, legacy, charitable donations, tears for victims of catastrophes, etc were all for not, and at the moment I am rotting in the ground, everything I achieved is rotting with me!!

Love seems at best a whisper of the spirit in the clamour of history; yet our age of power is headed for catastrophe unless a new justice can be achieved.

The catastrophe might then be fashioned like that of the real story, except that at the last instant an explanation would be forthcoming — however, that would be after it was all over, since aesthetically viewed it is a necessity to let him die. . .

It was the twin catastrophes of the Great Depression and, above all, the entirely unexpected coming to power of Hitler in 1933 that transformed a situation at worst unsatisfactory into one that was terminal and murderous.

This transformation must also include at least some minimal comprehension of the basic steps which must be taken in order to avoid catastrophe and realize the enormous potential for human enjoyment which is within our reach.

Yes, it's a chilling experience to stand at the face of tragedy, but even more powerful is the opportunity to reflect on what we lose and gain when catastrophe hits, and how the power of hope strengthens us.

Peter Altenberg, a major figure in Vienna's café society at the beginning of the last century, wrote: «There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition and financial catastrophe.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

As irksome as Kettle's argument is, it is merely insipid; more troubling are the attempts of some Christians to rationalize this catastrophe in ways that, however inadvertently, make that argument all at once seem profound.

They were at the mercy of diseases and catastrophes over which they had no control.

Without arguing with the projections, I have believed that there may be some ways of warding off, or at least of mitigating, catastrophe, ways that, if clarified, men might adopt in time.

The only projection that does not lead to catastrophe is the quite impossible one of immediately stabilizing population and industry on a worldwide basis at present levels.

A story which requires hardship and sacrifice — and even the ultimate pouring out of self which appears at first glance to be a catastrophe — feeds the soul's need for deeper meaning.

Its conclusion was that livestock are at the heart of almost every environmental catastrophe — so it came as a shock to the meat and dairy industries, particularly as it was authored by people who support animal farming.

Many clubs now demand that carters sign a form releasing the club from all liability, and in at least one case where these forms have been broadly and carelessly drawn up, the carters out playing golf could be held legally liable for almost any catastrophe that happened to anyone within five miles of the clubhouse.

There is no evidence at all of proper forward planning and all Wenger EVER does, is react - usually by moaning — at the latest «catastrophe», be that insufficient rest days between matches, injuries, poor refs or bad luck.

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

Relegation was a real possibility at one stage, but fortunately the talent within the ranks did eventually shine, albeit it short bursts, to ensure the club didn't suffer the catastrophe of relegation to the Championship.

Finding out that your tween or teen was caught with drugs at school can leave you feeling like you are in the midst of a huge catastrophe.

If you're able to anticipate that potty - training accident on the way to daycare, for example, and keep an extra change of clothes in your car at all times, a near - catastrophe becomes an easy fix.

Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL fundraiser last night, and various back - channel email lists and Facebook groups buzzed with people sick and tired of repetitive fundraising messages sent by campaigns, PACs and the party committees.

Boris Johnson has again attacked the government's handling of the disputed third runway at Heathrow, claiming the UK is on track for «economic catastrophe» as a result.